Saturday, March 16, 2013

Trees cast strong mid-day shadows across the snow.

Morning Observation:

This morning in Huntington at 7:55AM it’s currently 16 degrees under mostly cloudy skies. Winds are calm. Relative humidity is 85%, dewpoint 12, barometric pressure 29.86″ and rising. We picked up 3.5″ of new snow overnight and have 4″ on the ground. 24h high was 32, low 15.

Forecast:

Winter’s back for a spell! We’ll see mostly cloudy skies with a chance of snow showers this morning. Highs will be in the mid 20s with light and variable winds. Chance of snow is 50%. Tonight should be partly cloudy with a chance of snow showers after midnight. Lows will be around 10 above with light and variable winds. Chance of snow is 50%.

Surface high pressure will build in Sunday bringing partly sunny skies with a chance of snow showers in the morning. Highs will be around 20 with northwest winds 10 to 15 mph gusting up to 25 mph. Chance of snow is 50%. Sunday night should be clear and chilly with lows around 7 above and north winds around 10 mph.

Monday’s looking sunny with highs around 30 and light and variable winds. Monday night we’ll begin to see the next weather maker arrive in the form of a pair of low pressure systems–one coming out of the Ohio River Valley and another developing along the coast. We may be looking at an accumulating snowfall out of this into Tuesday. Stay tuned!

Almanac:

Last year on this date we had a high of 47 and a low of 40. We picked up 0.18″ of rain. The woodcock returned to our front field.

Burlington norms for this date are highs of 40°F and lows of 22°F.
Record high was 78°F in 1990.
Record low as -9°F in 1963.

Sky Notes:

Sunrise: 7:02 AM EDT
Sunset: 6:59 PM EDT
Length Of Visible Light: 12h 55m
Length of Day: 11h 57m
Tomorrow will be 3m 5s longer.

The Moon is a waxing crescent, 4d 16h old with 21% illumination.
Moonrise: 9:18 AM EDT
No Moon Set