Winchester VA
Overnight rains brought .15" for the day. The sky remained cloudy here ,
breaking a bit by mid afternoon. The sky was mostly sunny then mostly
clear between 4:30 & 10pm. Then it clouded over again after 10pm.
Photo: this cloud was elongated along the Blue Ridge Mnts about 3pm.
http://attach6.casi-internal/group/weatherpics/attach/429973/1389/gs-42=99=429973/10-1-10-147/Image=JPEG/snapshot.jpg
I went outside about 8:30pm to look for the aurora. Haze & city light
pollution obstructed the view to the north & northwest. The moon was
bright in the WSW sky. So i looked to the SE. I think what i saw was
cirrus illuminated by the moon, but if i did see it, was _very faint_.
Friday night, aurora was reported as far south as CA!! Details &
galleries at http://www.spaceweather.com/ .I just hope we have a few
clear nights here while that huge sunspot (22 times Earth size Fri aft)
spins on the sun.
Fri low was 37.1º (5:01am), the high 54.6º (3:50pm). The PWG was
19mph at 1:19pm, the low windchill was 18º at 12:10am.
Once again, the last 15 yards of the backyard are either soggy or has
standing water. But despite the almost as heavy rainfall, in a shorter
period, on wet ground, it was the 1st time that the basement stayed dry
during a hefty soaker.
http://attach4.casi-internal/group/weatherpics/attach/429973/1390/gs-42=99=429973/10-1-10-147/Image=JPEG/snapshot.jpg
I was outside in the moderate rain Thur afternoon, and realized that two
drain sprouts were dumping water next to the house. I moved the drain
pipe on one, & added a drain pipe to a 2nd. [We had added them last
fall, but last Wed rain was the 1st test since we had them.]
As typical in spring, we were about the last to clear in nw VA. However,
as this photo shows, the southern 2/3 of the state had plenty of sun.
There temps reached well into the 60s, including Charlottesville which
was at 68º for 3 hours. In the mountains, Shenadoah Valley, & northern
VA, temps still reached the mid 50s. To the north in MD & PA, cloudy
skies remained until almost or after dark, holding temps in the 40s.
http://attach2.casi-internal/group/weatherpics/attach/429973/1391/gs-42=99=429973/10-1-10-147/Image=JPEG/snapshot.jpg
The satellite image above is from
http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/satellite/
The forecast is for temps into the 60s from Wed on next week, with the
long range NWS forecast suggesting above normal temps until mid April
<YEA>. Norm here is 38/61 now.
The vidcap below shows amounts given by WRC weather watchers for the
storm total, with meteorologist Bob Ryan in the shot. {I was too busy
dealing with the Yahoo! webtv mail problem to send a report.} My storm
total is 1.28".
http://attach6.casi-internal/group/weatherpics/attach/429973/1392/gs-42=99=429973/10-1-10-147/Image=JPEG/snapshot.jpg
According to the Accu Weather composite radar, a foot of rain has fallen
in March in 2 southern VA counties.
http://wwwa.accuweather.com/adcbin/radar_index.asp?nav=home&partner=accuweather&getArea=VA_&nxtype=30d&btnGet=get+radar
There was 14 flood related warnings broadcast for VA's southern areas,
as far north as the Richmond Westham station on the James River, which
is expecting a crest < than a foot above flood stage about midday
Saturday.
Real time warnings for VA are available at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VA_StormNet/messages .Just goto the bottom
of the page for new data, & click on the ones marked "no author, no
subject".
Steve Minghini
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