Monday, February 9, 2015

A sculpture casts shadows out next to Fargo Brook

Morning Observation:

This morning in Huntington at 7:00AM it’s currently 12 degrees under overcast skies. Winds are calm. Relative humidity is 91%, dewpoint 10, barometric pressure 30.14”. We picked up 3” of snow by 4:00PM yesterday afternoon and another 0.5” of snow overnight along with a light crusting from freezing drizzle. We have 20.75” at the stake. Yesterday’s high was 12, and the overnight low was 8.

The Winter Weather Warning for our region has been cancelled.

Forecast:

Weak low pressure over the Ohio River valley this morning will drift southeastward to the Carolina coast by late afternoon with the long duration light snow event coming to an end this evening. We’ll see cloudy skies with a chance of light snow and patchy freezing drizzle this morning, then light snow likely with patchy freezing drizzle this afternoon. We may see some accumulation in the dusting to 2″ range, with amounts increasing south were Winter Weather advisories are still in place. Highs will be around 17 with light and variable winds. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Tonight should be mostly cloudy with a 20% chance of light snow and patchy freezing drizzle. Lows will be around 8 above with light and variable winds.

High pressure will build in Tuesday bringing partly sunny skies with highs around 17 and light and variable winds. Tuesday night should be partly cloudy and colder with lows around -5 below wit light and variable winds.

Wednesday’s looking partly sunny with highs around 16 and light and variable winds. A clipper system will approach the region Wednesday night bringing cloudy skies with a 50% chance of snow. Lows will be around 10 above.

Almanac:

Last year on this date we had a high of 24 and a low of 7. We had 9″ of snow on the ground.

Burlington norms for this date are highs of 29 (up another degree!) and lows of 11.
The record high was 53°F in 1925.
The record low was -28°F in 1934.

Sky Notes:

Sunrise: 7:00 AM EST
Sunset: 5:12 PM EST
Length of Visible Light: 11h 12m
Length of Day: 10h 11m
Tomorrow will be 2m45s longer.

The Moon is waning gibbous, 19d 23h old with 75% illumination.
Moonrise: 10:57 PM EST
Moonset: 9:25 AM EST

About Today’s Photo:

This cobbled together sculpture out in our back yard next to Fargo Brook casts interesting shadows…