Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Three young turkey poults make a hasty retreat from my camera up on Texas Hill Road.
Morning Observation:
This morning in Huntington at 6:25AM it’s currently 61 degrees under a milky clear sky. Winds are calm. Relative humidity is 99%, dewpoint 61, barometric pressure 30.15″ and rising. 24hr high was 82, low 56.
Forecast:
A slow moving cold front will move across the region later today and into tonight bringing with it some fairly heavy rainfall. We’ll see mostly sunny skies this morning, then mostly cloudy skies with showers likely this afternoon. Highs will be in the mid 70s with south winds 10 to 15 mph gusting up to 30 mph. Chance of rain is 70%. Tonight should bring occasional showers with isolated thunderstorms. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall. Lows will be around 60 with south winds 10 to 15 mph gusting up to 25 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. Given the juiciness of the air currently in place, we can expect to see rainfall amounts in the 1.5″ range.
Wednesday should be cloudy with showers likely in the morning then partly sunny with a chance of showers in the afternoon as the front is replaced by cooler and drier northwesterly airflow. Highs will be in the lower 70s with southwest winds around 10 mph becoming northwesterly in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 70%. Wednesday night should be mostly clear with lows around 50 and north winds around 10 mph.
Thursday’s looking mostly sunny with highs in the mid 70s and north winds around 10 mph. Thursday night should be clear with lows around 50.
Almanac:
Last year on this date we had a high of 62 and a low of 52. We picked up 0.39″ of rain.
Burlington norms for this date are highs of 76°F and lows of 54°F.
Record high was 92°F in 1949.
Record low was 36°F in 1906.
Sky Notes:
Sunrise: 5:07 AM EDT
Sunset: 8:36 PM EDT
Length Of Visible Light: 16h 42m
Length of Day: 15h 29m
Tomorrow will be 0m 33s longer.
The Moon is a waning crescent, 22d 10h old with 40% illumination.
Moonrise: 1:04 AM EDT
Moonset: 2:11 PM EDT
