Thursday, June 14, 2012
A fly investigates a buttercup bloom in a clearing in the woods.
Morning Observation:
This morning in Huntington at 7:10AM it’s currently 51 degrees under clear skies. Winds are out of the west at 0-4 mph. Relative humidity is 98%, dewpoint 51, barometric pressure 30.26″ and rising rapidly. We picked up 0.06″ of rain in the past 24hrs (yesterday morning). 24hr high was 69, low 43.
Forecast:
A large and deep high pressure system will dominate the weather through the weekend and into next week bringing us a stretch of clear days and nights. We’ll see sunny skies today with highs in the mid 70s and north winds around 10 mph. Tonight should be clear with lows in the mid 40s and north winds around 10 mph until midnight, becoming light and variable.
Friday should be mostly sunny with highs in the upper 70s and light and variable winds. Friday night should be clear with lows in the upper 40s and light and variable winds.
Saturday’s looking sunny with highs in the lower 80s and light and variable winds. Saturday night should be clear with lows in the mid 50s. Summery weather should persist well into next week with the next chance of anything different coming around Wednesday.
Almanac:
Last year on this date we had a high of 67 and a low of 50. We picked up 0.07″ of rain.
Burlington norms for this date are highs of 76°F and lows of 54°F
Record high was 94°F in 1988.
Record low was 36°F in 1912.
Sky Notes:
Sunrise: 5:07 AM EDT
Sunset: 8:37 PM EDT
Length Of Visible Light: 16h 43m
Length of Day: 15h 30m
Tomorrow will be 0m 24s longer.
The Moon 24d 11h old with 22% illumination.
Moonrise: 1:56 AM EDT
Moonset: 4:12 PM EDT
I’ll be heading out of town for the next week, so you East-Street-Weather-Blog-dependent types will have to find your morning weather hit elsewhere. Enjoy the Summer Solstice as it occurs at 7:09PM on Wednesday, June 20!
