This is the time of year when you can expect rain, and sometimes lots of it! The next few days will be no different thanks to a stalled out cold front.
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What a nice taste of summer, wasn’t it? A few record highs, just a slight amount of humidity and plenty of sunshine! It was great to not have the furnace running too! To make things easier for us in the weather center, I’ve created a new Twitter account. Our new account is WJAC_Weather. Just click here and hit the follow button to follow us. Weather has been so calm in the Alleghenies over the past couple of days that we need something to liven it up. Check out this video of lightning hitting the Sears Tower. Pretty amazing! http://www.wjactv.com/video/19271154/ Here’s some video of the South Carolina wildfires. http://www.wjactv.com/video/19267579/ Finally, we had some problems of our own on Sunday [...] With temperatures in the 80s, I hope it’s safe to put this competition to bed. We’ve waited all year to figure out who the big winners were going to be in the snow prediction competition. The results are in: Here are the numbers that we used for the final totals in the Alleghenies… Johnstown: 67.8″ Total: 173.8″ So, who was the big winner? Click into the post to find out… Here’s our latest installment of Weather Kid: http://www.wjactv.com/video/19277442/index.html Wow. I watched this video and it’s kinda scary. Check out this video of a truck being blown over. It was captured by a highway patrol officer’s in-car camera. http://www.wjactv.com/video/19270641/ Here the perspective from the National Weather Service in State College on our upcoming heat wave:  Late April 2009 Heat An expansive and unusually strong ridge of high pressure will build over the Eastern Seaboard through Saturday. The high pressure will be both at the surface and aloft, and allow for abundant [...] From Earthday.net: Earth Day 2009, April 22, will mark the beginning of The Green Generation CampaignTM which will also be the focus of the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day in 2010. With negotiations for a new global climate agreement coming up in December, Earth Day 2009 must be a day of action and civic [...] Time to skip from early March to the 4th of July this weekend! High temperatures tomorrow will only be in the 30s and 40s, with even some wet snow on some of the higher hilltops. But by Saturday, things will be much different. The folks at Purchase Line sent over a picture of Jim Burton and his school visit to Purchase Line. Here’s the picture…
Jim at Purchase Line I have an older sunset to offer – interesting due to the cloud formation. OK – sunsets are common but hey – every one is different! Have uploaded a pic – seems it is in gallery – not sure how to link or display! (edit by TT: Gallery uploaded!) #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { One of many satisfying sunsets Cooler-than-average will be going by the wayside later this week. Perhaps for good (or at least for the next few months!) Temperatures tomorrow will actually be very close to normal for this time of year, especially if we can manage some sunshine. However, the more sunshine we get, the better the chance for picking [...] I have three pictures sent in by Chris of Alum Bank. I have to preface this by saying that I cannot stand bees. For that reason, this post is title “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.” First, the good:
Cherry Buds Blossoming Next, the bad:
Bees Are Out! Finally, the ugly: [...] Here’s our latest-future weatherman: http://www.wjactv.com/video/19214068/index.html Today was justabout as good as it gets in mid April! Tomorrow will be even better! Highs on Saturday will soar into the 70s for most of the area, with the higher hilltops staying in the upper 60s, and the deepest valleys southeast of Johnstown reaching 80! Enjoy it… It’s Skywarn season, folks! That means we’re looking to the skies for severe weather. The National Weather Service would like some help with that. For this reason, they are offering Skywarn spotter classes all across the state. According to the NWS, here’s some important facts about the program: The ground truth reports from [...] As most of us already know, March was very dry. We saw our share of brush and wild fires the entire month. Only trace amounts of snow fell, which was unusual. And the rain amounts were way below where they should have been Click in for a look at how the state fared, courtesy of the National Climatic Data Center… Finally! A nice break in our pattern of storms and cold weather will give us some long-awaited sunshine and above average temperatures for the second half of the week. Here’s some info from NOAA on how March unfolded across the U.S., temperature and precipitation-wise. Notice how far below average we were: The March 2009 temperature for the contiguous United States was near the long-term average, based on records going back to 1895, according to an analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. Heavy precipitation last month also pushed the Red River, along the Minnesota-North Dakota border, to record levels, triggering major floods. The average March temperature of 43.2 degrees F was 0.6 degrees F above the 20th century average. Precipitation across the contiguous United States in March averaged 2.51 inches, which is 0.11 inch above the 1901-2000 average.
(Credit: NOAA) U.S. Temperature Highlights
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