September 6, 2008 – 1:03 pm
The waxing and waning of the Hanna rain bands make me a little woozy. I think it’s over, and then here comes another wave. A wave of buckets, more precisely. And the wind is picking up a bit.
We’re warm, dry, powered up, and happy. Still, I’ll be glad when this is over. I gotta [...]
September 6, 2008 – 12:07 pm
The remnants of TS Hanna are passing over as I type this. Near as I could tell from the radar, the storm will track more to the south and east of where we are, and then take a turn northward up the coast.
Nevertheless, the rain bands are, well, banding up, and dumping rain in [...]
Just in from Channel 4’s morning weather report:
Thick humidity is in the air around Reston and Loudoun County.
What is this? Fog? I’m not sure; I’ll just be glad when summer’s over.
-k-
We’re in day 8 of 90o+ heat, with the humidity trailing that by a nose. A break is on the horizon, doubtless in the form of torrential downpours and thunderstorms.
I can’t wait.
-k-
Man, what a round of storms we had here yesterday. I think it even made the national news. 70+ tornado warnings, 4 or 5 on the ground, torrential rain, large hail, and intense straight-line winds. I’d never seen anything like this here, and only rarely back in Kansas.
One death, caused by a [...]
October 29, 2007 – 10:15 am
That’s the temperature here this morning. Brr.. I couldn’t tell for sure, but when I let the cat out a little while ago, I thought I saw a thin coating of frost on the car windshields.
I’ve included a blog self-referential capture of the weather.com details from the right sidebar.
It’s time to factor in a [...]
October 27, 2007 – 12:44 am
And the drought gets dinged a little more. A nice, sometimes heavy, but a pretty soaking rain, too. Cold, wet, and a good night to be inside.
Needing the rain as we do, you’ll hear no complaints from me. My little bride, our faithful cat and I are in front of the teevee, [...]
October 26, 2007 – 12:44 am
Over the last day or so, practically every place in the region has received at least 2 inches of rain; some locales got 3+. There’s the promise of yet more precip over the next 36-48 hours.
Even though it’s wet and cold, we are grateful for the rain.
The drought still isn’t broken, but it’s at least [...]
October 18, 2007 – 10:28 am
If no measurable precipitation falls today, this area will hit a record 34 straight days with a bone-dry rain gauge. Much of the area is 12 inches or so behind yearly averages.
There is a chance of some fairly heavy rain overnight tonight and into tomorrow, but it sounds pretty spotty overall.
What we’d like [...]
December 9, 2005 – 6:12 am
Both of these phenomena can be experienced in a half-hour’s drive around here today.
Frosted ice = snow which has fallen on top of an ice/sleet bed.
Glazed snow = freezing rain which has fallen on top of a snow bed.
Yep, I made the terms up, but that’s what’s transpiring, and it means this old guy is [...]
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