Everything you need to know: Vernal or spring equinox 2012 | Astronomy Essentials | EarthSky.
Site is back, with this helpful post about the spring equinox shared by James Spann on his Facebook page. Expect regular forecasts to resume later this week, the site is good for at least 60 more days!
I’m unable to pay for hosting at the moment. This will be the last post before the site goes offline later this week. I still own the domain, so it will be back when I can bring it back. I apologize to anyone who was looking forward to where this was going as much as I was.
Goodbye, and keep looking up at those beautiful azure skies.
Tornado Season On The Sun? | Space.com.
Thanks to Ryan Vaughan for sharing this on Twitter!
It’s going to be a beautiful day here in the Tri-Cities with a high of 63º this afternoon. Clouds will start to move in this evening ahead of a weak cold front that is approaching the area for tomorrow, keeping us well above freezing tonight with an overnight low of 36º. Tomorrow will be largely overcast as the winds shift to the south ahead of a frontal system that will bring rain to Central VA throughout the afternoon and evening hours and a high of 55º. Total rainfall of about a quarter inch is expected, with a low temperature Thursday night of 40º.
The Weekend Outlook will be posted later this evening.
Update: This weekend will be warm for this season, with highs on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in the upper 50′s/lower 60′s and lows well above freezing in the mid to upper 30′s on Friday and Saturday, and the mid 40′s Sunday morning. The storm that was giving some people a little bit of a snow scare earlier this week will move through overnight Saturday into Sunday morning, bringing zero snow but potentially as much as an inch of rain. Stay tuned and check in for Friday’s forecast for more up-to-date information.
I’ve caught a bit of a cold, so non-forecast updates will probably continue to be scarce for a few days. Forecasts will continue to be posted, however, and feel free to email me interesting weather posts at Azure@SkiesofAzure.com if you feel like helping a sick weather geek populate her little wxblog.
If you’re already tired of the chilly weather in the Tri-Cities and looking for some good news, I certainly have it. Today will be mostly clear with us reaching a nice seasonable high of 52º this afternoon. Clouds will move in after sunset, which will help keep our overnight low up right at 32º. Light southwesterly winds of 7 to 10mph tomorrow will help offset the remaining cloud cover, letting us still hit a high of about 55º on Tuesday. A weak system will move through the area overnight Tuesday, but our rain chances from this are looking negligible at only 15% right now. Regardless, our clouds will stick around through the night and help keep us well above freezing for an overnight low of only 40º.
Wednesday is looking sunny and warm, but the clouds won’t stay gone for long and we’ll have some better rain chances here in southern Virginia with the next system that looks like it will move through on Thursday. More details on that with the Wednesday morning forecast!
Are you ready for a shot of winter? The Tri-Cities will be seasonably cool today with a high at 55º. Expect clouds to move in this afternoon, keeping us well above freezing tonight with a low of only 39º. A cold front will move into the area tomorrow morning, heralding a big cooldown for the rest of the weekend and a chance for some wintry weather as it picks up and strengthens a coastal system. That coastal system will likely bring about a quarter inch of rain to the area Saturday morning as it passes to our east, along with some additional scattered showers towards the later part of the evening as the system strengthens offshore. We’ll claw our way up to a high of only 50º Saturday before temperatures plunge to a frigid 21º overnight, coupled with blustery winds brought on by the offshore system we’ll be experiencing single digit wind-chills! That wind will be a big issue Saturday night as steady winds of 15 to 20 mph are possible with gusts as high as 45mph at times. On a more interesting note, a small snow chance exists for early Sunday morning. Accumulations are expected to be fairly low, a quarter of an inch at the most, but it might hide some of the black ice that is sure to result from Saturday’s rain, so be extra careful out there Sunday morning. Skies will clear up early Sunday, bringing a clear cold wintry day to the region with a high of only 40º.
What 14 Years of Weather Looks Like.
The Legendary Spann shared this video on Twitter and I absolutely have to share it. My favorite things to watch for are the tropical cyclones, some of the notables I’ve shared after the jump.
Good afternoon! Today’s forecast has become slightly more interesting than I previously expected as a trough moves through tonight. Expect a high today of only 48º with a good chance of seeing some drizzle or light rain later in the afternoon, with even a small chance of a brief flurry of snow very late tonight. Expect the overnight low to hover right around 32º, so be careful next morning as there may be a bit of icing wherever there is standing water. High pressure will move back in for Thursday and Friday, bringing us fairly clear and calm conditions for most of the next 48 hours. Expect a high Thursday of 52º with a brisk overnight low of 25º.
A strong cold front will approach the area Friday, bringing us some warmer southerly winds that will help get us up to a high in the upper 50′s. A chance of rain is in the picture for Friday evening as the cold front moves through, and temperatures Saturday will only get up to the low 50′s. The cold air really pours in Saturday night though; we’ll be struggling to break 40º for Sunday’s high!
Funky fog formation in Panama City – wdbj7.com.
Check out this photo of orographic clouds forming around hotels in Panama City!
Thanks to Johnny Kelly @StormChaser4850 for posting this on twitter!
Man trapped in elevator, so is his rescuer – chicagotribune.com.
Interesting story out of Chicago: a resident of an apartment building became stuck in an elevator, so a firefighter rode the second elevator up and rescued the man through the roof hatch. On their way back down to the ground, the second elevator also stalled, trapping both the resident and his rescuer. An engineer eventually got the elevators moving again under manual control from the roof, finally freeing the unlucky man and the firefighter.
