Thursday, April 12, 2012

Another slow-shutter shot of Fargo Brook.

Morning Observation:

This morning in Huntington at 7:00AM it’s currently 33 degrees under overcast skies. There’s a tad of frost out there this morning. Winds are calm. Relative humidity is 98%, dewpoint 32, barometric pressure 30.02″ and rising. We picked up 0.05″ of rain in the past 24hrs. 24hr high was 52, low 31.

Forecast:

High pressure is currently moving into the region from the west, finally pushing out the stubborn low pressure system that’s been dominating the weather for the past several days. We’ll see mostly cloudy skies this morning, then partly cloudy skies later in the day. Highs will be around 50F with winds from the NNW at 5 to 15 mph. Tonight should be clear and cool with lows around 32F and light winds.

Friday should be clear and warmer with highs of 54F and winds from the NW at 5 to 15 mph. Friday night should be clear with lows of 32F and light winds.

Saturday’s looking clear in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a chance of rain as low pressure and associated warm, moist air move in from the south. Highs will be around 64F with winds from the South at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 20%. Saturday night should be overcast with a chance of rain. Lows will be around 46F with winds from the South at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 20%.

Sunday’s looking warm and showery.

Almanac:

Last year on this date we had a high of 60 and a low of 39. We picked up 0.59″ of rain and finally were down to bare ground snow-wise.

Burlington norms for this date are highs of 52°F and lows of 32°F.
Record high was 82°F in 1945.
Record low was 16°F in 1926.

Sky Notes:

Sunrise: 6:12 AM EDT
Sunset: 7:33 PM EDT
Length Of Visible Light: 14h 20m
Length of Day: 13h 20m
Tomorrow will be 2m 58s longer.

The Moon is waning gibbous, 20d 20h old with 61% illumination.
Moonrise: 1:26 AM EDT
Moonset: 10:57 AM EDT