Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Branches mirrored in the snow

Morning Observation:

This morning in Huntington at 8:30AM it’s currently 25 degrees and snowing lightly under overcast skies. Winds are calm. Relative humidity is 94%, dewpoint 21, barometric pressure 30.10” and rising rapidly. We picked up 0.7” of new snow overnight and have 15.5” at the stake. Yesterday’s high was 39, and the overnight low was 25.

Forecast:

Surface high pressure building eastward from the the Great Lakes this morning will bring dry conditions to the North Country today through Thursday. Temperatures will be a tad below normal today and tonight, but as the high shifts to our east, a south to southwesterly air flow will usher in a considerable warming trend. We’ll see valley highs reach into the lower 40s on Wednesday, the upper 40s to lower 50s on Thursday, and the mid to upper 50s on Friday. An approaching frontal system will bring increasing chances for rain showers late Thursday night into Friday.

We’ll mostly cloudy skies this morning with a 205 chance of snow showers before 9AM. Skies will gradually become sunny with a high near 33 and northwest winds 10 to 13 mph. Tonight should be mostly clear with a low around 17 and northwest winds around 5 mph becoming light and variable in the evening.

Wednesday should bring increasing clouds with a high near 41 and south winds around 6 mph. Wednesday night should be mostly cloudy with a low around 29 and south winds around 7 mph.

Thursday’s looking partly sunny with a high near 51 and south winds 7 to 10 mph.
Thursday night should be mostly cloudy with a 50% chance of rain after 8:00pm. Lows will be around 41 with south winds around 10 mph gusting to 21 mph. Rainfall amounts of less 1/10″ are expected.

Almanac:

Last year on this date we had a high of 38 and a low of 19. We had 12″ of snow at the stake.

Burlington averages for this date are a low of 20 and a high of 38.
The record low was -14 in 1948.
The record high was 63 in 2012 (we had a high of 62).

Sky Notes:

Sunrise: 7:10AM
Sunset: 6:54PM
Length of day: 11:43:50
Today will be 3:04 longer than yesterday.

The Moon is a waxing crescent, 5.3 days old with 28% illumination.
Moonrise: 10:20AM
Moonset: 12:01AM

About Today’s Photo:

On bright, sunny snow-filled days, I find myself captivated by shadows cast across the snow. The snow seems to act almost like a mirror as branches and twigs cast stark shadows in high relief across the pallet of white.

Panasonic GM5, Lumix 12-32mm lens @  27mm, ISO 400, f/8, 1/5000″ exposure.