We need it, and we have more of it on the way for Wednesday. Even though we’ve caught up a little in the rain department over the past week or so, we’re still down for the year so far. It looks like we’ll pick up a solid half to three quarters of an inch tomorrow, with some spots receiving some slightly higher amounts. It’s all good news for the water tables which haven’t seen much since late February.
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The first Tornado of 2009 in Pennsylvania struck Lancaster county this weekend, with up to 95mph winds. Here’s a summary report from the National Weather Service in State College: Here’s the latest Weather Kid, London. A big thanks goes out to London because we had to delay him by more than a month due to the power outage at the station in the middle of February. Check out his video by clicking here. Don’t forget… If you’d like to be a Weather Kid, [...] More Rain! We could really use a good, day-long steady light rain, but we’ll take what we can get right now. Steady rain across the Alleghenies tonight will drop a quarter to half inch south of I-80, with lighter amounts to the north. Saturday will be a tricky day. After hearing about and witnessing so many brush fires over the past few weeks, the rain today was a welcome sight. We’ll get a better round of rain tomorrow and tomorrow night as low pressure moves into the region. It looks like another quarter to half inch of rain is possible with this system, which will certainly help out with our parched ground. I finally have some good news to pass along tonight – we’re getting some rain! Low pressure will continue to push our way over the next 24 to 48 hours, slowly but surely moistening up our atmosphere enough to allow raindrops to hit the ground. That looks to happen by lunchtime tomorrow, with the [...] The days are getting longer and the sun is getting higher in the southern sky each day! On Friday 3/20 the direct rays of the sun were centered on the Earth’s equator, marking the date of the Vernal, or Spring Equinox. Johnstown is located at 40 degrees north latitude; and since the sun was [...] Mount Redoubt erupted over the weekend, sending plenty of ash and gases into the atmosphere. Its first eruption occurred at 10:38 p.m. Sunday and the fifth ended at 5 a.m. yesterday, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory. The volcano, roughly 160 kilometres southwest of Anchorage, sent an ash plume more than 15 kilometres into [...] Today was a lazy day in the Severe Weather Center. It was full of housekeeping and getting things back to organized after a chaotic couple of weeks (or months). It was such a nice day outside, that I decided to go back to a question I posed a couple of years ago. I wondered if the term ‘cobalt blue sky’ was actually correct. To figure this out, I took a picture of the sky and loaded it into my computer. From there, I went to Wikipedia and searched for the different shades of blue. I copied each colored block onto the picture of the sky to compare. Click into the post to see the picture and what shades of blue best match the sky… We had Kara in our studios on Friday, the first day of Spring, March 20th. She did an amazing job. She’s a 7th grader at Forest Hills. When she’s not doing the weather, she likes to play soccer. Click here to see video of Kara from Friday morning. The spring (April through June) temperature and precipitation outlook issued today by the Climate Prediction Center – a division of the National Weather Service – indicates warmer-than-normal temperatures from Texas westward to the California deserts north to central Utah with cooler-than-normal temperatures in the Northwest, Hawaii and much of Alaska. Odds favor below-average precipitation across the northwestern U.S. and South Florida and favor above-average precipitation in Hawaii and northern Alaska. More and more brush fires have been flaring up across the Alleghenies over the past few weeks, especially south of I-80. This weekend looks to be especially dry with high pressure nosing in from Northeastern Canada. That will supply a dry, cool air-mass that will be capable of sustaining any fire that starts. Here’s a look at the precipitation departures since the beginning of the year: Sunshine, blue skies, birds chirping and people outside without heavy coats! Doesn’t get much better this time of year. While we didn’t break records today, two were tied!  Filed in: DuBois, Indiana, Record, Spring, Weather Overview, Winter, birds, spring weather |  Comments: None yet |  Share:
Here are some tips I found at eHow.com for preparation in the case of another drought: Check your faucets, pipes and toilets for leaks every so often. Even a small faucet leak can waste as much as 20 gallons of water. Replace your shower heads with low-flow heads, which use less water. Standard shower [...] Things have been rather dry as of late across the Alleghenies, with the exception from Interstate 80 and northward. Hopefully over the next few weeks we’ll see a few good rainstorms (or snow, it’s all water!) so we won’t have to worry about fires and water shortages. Here’s video of our latest Weather Kid, Jasmine. She did a great job. Check out the video by clicking here. March 14th may seem like a normal day, but it is not. If you look at the number, you’ll see that it’s a pretty important number in the world of mathematics. It’s Pi Day. (No, not pie as in apple pie.) For more on Pi Day, check out this website… http://www.piday.org/ Over the past few days, we’ve had some rivers and streams come out of their banks across the Northern Alleghenies. Next week is Flood Safety Awareness Week, brought to you by the National Weather Service. National Flood Safety Awareness Week is intended to highlight some of the many ways floods can occur, the hazards associated with floods, and what you can do to save life and property. A couple of days ago, I added a new feature to the blog. You may have noticed it in the top-right corner of the page. It’s a one-line update using something called ‘Twitter.’ Twitter will allow me to update that section of the blog with just my cell phone whenever I want or need [...] We’ve seen our fair share of gusty winds this season, and we have another round right in front of us. A cold front will cross the area tomorrow morning, accompanied by a line of thundershowers. Along the front and for several hours behind it, west winds will gust as high as 50 mph. With [...] |
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