Monday, May 13, 2013

Amelanchier blooming along Taft Road.

Morning Observation:

This morning in Huntington at 6:45AM it’s currently a blustery 38 degrees under partly cloudy skies. Winds are out of the west at 5-8 mph and gusting to 15 mph. Relative humidity is 66%, dewpoint 28, barometric pressure 29.80″ and rising slowly. We picked up 0.02″ of rain in the past 24hrs. Yesterday’s high was 58 and the overnight low was 38.

There is a Frost Warning in effect for the Champlain Valley for tonight until 8:00AM Tuesday morning.

Forecast:

An upper level low will continue to move eastward across southeastern Quebec today bringing in colder air to the region. We’ll see partly sunny skies this morning with isolated rain showers this afternoon. Highs will only be in the lower 50s with southwest winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain is 20%. It should be partly cloudy until midnight tonight, then clearing as high pressure builds in with areas. Lows will be in the lower 30s with west winds 10 to 15 mph until midnight, becoming light and variable. Expect widespread frost by morning so if you’ve got tender stuff in the ground, you should cover it up!

Tuesday should start out with patchy frost in the morning. It’ll be sunny with highs in the upper 50s and northwest winds around 10 mph. Tuesday night should be clear with the chance of patchy frost overnight. Lows will be in the mid 30s with southwest winds around 10 mph.

Wednesday should start out mostly sunny in the morning giving way to clouds and chance of rain showers as a warm front moves in from the southwest in the afternoon. Highs will be in the mid 60s with south winds 10 to 15 mph. Wednesday night showers are likely. Lows will be in the upper 40s. Chance of rain is 60%.

Almanac:

Last year on this date we had a high of 70 and a low of 49.

Burlington norms for this date are highs of 67°F and lows of 44 °F
Record high was 84°F in 1985.
Record low was 30°F in 1940.

Sky Notes:

Sunrise: 5:27 AM EDT
Sunset: 8:10 PM EDT
Length Of Visible Light: 15h 50m
Length of Day: 14h 43m
Tomorrow will be 2m 16s longer.

The Moon is a waxing crescent, 3d 10h old with 11% illumination.
Moonrise: 8:09 AM EDT
Moonset: 11:17 PM EDT

About Today’s Photo:

Amelanchier (also known as shadbush, shadwood or shadblow, serviceberry or sarvisberry, wild pear, juneberry, saskatoon, sugarplum or wild-plum, and chuckley pear) grows widely across temperate regions of North America (hence the profusion of names!) It’s an early flowing tree in the rose family that grows in successional forests. I often see its flowers in late April lighting up the forest understory before the rest of the trees have leafed out. This shot was taken with my 105mm macro, ISO 400, f/11, 1/800 sec shutter (it was a bit breezy and I needed to freeze the action some…)