Saturday, September 1, 2012

Contoured hay rows on Taft Hill yesterday morning.

Rabbit-rabbit!

Morning Observation:

This morning in Huntington at 6:25AM it’s currently a muggy 62 degrees under mostly cloudy skies. Winds are calm. Relative humidity is 98%, dewpoint 61, barometric pressure 29.98″ and rising. 24hr high was 80, low 60. No rain here in the past 24hrs.

Forecast:

Morning clouds should give way to mostly sunny skies today as high pressure builds in. Highs will be in the mid 70s with northwest winds around 10 mph. Tonight should be clear with lows in the upper 40s and north winds around 10 mph until midnight, becoming light and variable.

Sunday should be partly sunny with highs in the mid 70s and ight and variable winds, becoming northwest around 10 mph in the afternoon. Sunday night should be mostly clear with lows in the upper 40s and light and variable winds.

Labor Day’s looking mostly sunny with highs in the mid 70s and south winds around 10 mph. Monday night should be mostly cloudy with a 40% chance of showers as a mid level disturbance moves through. Lows will be in the lower 60s.

Almanac:

Last year on this date we had a high of 78 and a low of 54.

Burlington norms for this date are highs of 76°F and lows of 56°F.
Record high was 92°F in 2010 (we had a high of 90).
Record low was 40°F in 1967.

Sky Notes:

Sunrise: 6:15 AM EDT
Sunset: 7:27 PM EDT
Length Of Visible Light: 14h 11m
Length of Day: 13h 12m
Tomorrow will be 2m 56s shorter.

The Moon is waning gibbous, 14d 18h old with 99% illumination.
Moonrise: 7:36 PM EDT
Moonset: 7:25 AM EDT

The blog will be taking a week off as we’re heading to Ohio to take Emma back to college. See you next weekend!