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You know how they say you get smarter by reading things? Well, I definitely learned something today on the weather blog of our sister station, WTOV-9 in Steubenville. I learned that Moscow, Russia is going to stop the major snows for the year.  Moscow Is Trying To Prevent This! Come again? Yes… they’re going to cancel this year’s major snows. Get more details below… We’ll see a cooldown this weekend, but don’t look for much snow anytime soon. High Pressure Cold Front George Clooney Dewpoint Which of those terms doesn’t belong? Well, it’s obviously George Clooney. Don’t tell that to the Weather Channel, though. They’re going to start airing movies. It all starts this week with ‘The Perfect Storm.’ Every year at this time, I like to look back and see how the past Halloween’s treated us in the region and see what we’re serving up for this year. Take a look after the jump to see the past 9 years worth of Halloween weather. Which ones had rain? Did any have snow? Click in to find out! Well, here’s the definition: Indian summer is an informal expression given to a period of sunny, warm weather in autumn in the northern hemisphere, typically in late October or early November, after the leaves have turned due to an onset of frost but before the first snowfall. Some of us saw snow last week, others did not. So if we really bend the “rule” here, this could qualify! Either way, it sure is nice. And there’s more to come. NOAA has posted it’s winter outlook and the results are… well… ummm… sorta inconclusive. The good news is that they’re not predicting a wet winter for us. The bad news is that they’re not necessarily predicting a dry winter, either. They are predicting that this winter has a 33% chance of being colder than [...] We’re coming into the snowy season here in the Alleghenies and to make it more fun, we’re going to have a contest. Click on the link below to be taken to a website where you’ll be asked to give us three dates. As some of the new model runs arrive tonight, indications are that we’ll be dealing with some wet snow across the southern half of the state all the way into Sunday morning. The area most likely to pick up a few inches of the slush will be across Cambria and Somerset counties east to I-99. And just like the first round, this will also be elevation-dependent. We’ve received a bunch of pictures, but you can still send us yours. As a matter of fact, please do! The e-mail is weather@wjactv.com. We’ve been trying to do our best to TwitPic them to the Twitter account. You can see them by going to http://www.twitter.com/WJAC_Weather So, I’ve been over how a computer model predicts the weather, right? Essentially, it takes the current weather and puts it into a giant mathematical formula and spits out the weather for a future period. Then it puts that weather back into the formula and repeats… Here’s what our Futurecast model is saying about [...] Well, it doesn’t happen often… but it happened today! Paternoville had to close early due to the winter weather. Here’s video from Gary Sinderson’s package from the 5 PM news. Click Here! We have received more pictures from those in charge of Paternoville, too. Click here to go to their Facebook page. (No account [...] Our Centre County mobile newsroom got this video of the winter weather preps in Centre County. Take a look… Click Here! Let’s start this thread out now and see who replies. What we’re looking for is your snow reports… Leave a comment with your name and location and when it starts snowing. Also, if you have any accumulations, leave them, too. (Along with the time of measurement!) You can also report your snow and send [...] There’s a winter storm heading our way? Have you heard? Winter Weather Advisory: SOUTHERN CENTRE-CAMBRIA-BLAIR-SOMERSET-BEDFORD Winter Storm Warning: WARREN-MCKEAN-POTTER-ELK-CAMERON-NORTHERN CLINTON-CLEARFIELD- NORTHERN CENTRE-TIOGA-NORTHERN LYCOMING-SULLIVAN Well, let’s get to it with the first Winter Storm Warning of the season. Take a look at the text from the National Weather Service below… It’s funny how things that happened so long ago are still relevant and exciting to us. This picture is taken of two galaxies coming together a mere 250 million light years away. Check out the picture of the collision below.
When Galaxies Collide! For more information, check out the main [...] While it isn’t unheard of, it’s not that common. We have the potential for some snow later this week and into the start of the weekend. The girl scouts from Richland (The Shooting Stars) visited today for the noon newscast. They had a chance to get in front of the green wall.
Girl Scout Troop #40976 Here’s the latest fall foliage color update from ‘The Foliage Network.’Â As you can see, a lot of our area is in the moderate color range as of Saturday.
Foliage Report (As of October 10, 2009) By the way, the map comes to us from ‘The Foliage Network.’ They have a lot of [...] I took a trip through the archives tonight in an attempt to find our first accumulation of the 2008-2009 season and I was successful. Take a look back at this post from October 29th, 2008 and a few of the pictures that we were sent of the first snow of 2008. Click here to [...] A new ring has been discovered around Saturn by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. This is actually the largest of the planet’s many rings. Read on for more from sciencedaily.com: |
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