It seems that the models are losing enthusiasm for convective instability in our area this weekend, so my hopes for a Friday or Saturday chase are quickly dwindling. The cut off upper level low is apparently going to swing through here with heavy rain…
If your schedule is anything like mine, your calendar fills fast. This seems especially true during the summer. So it’s not too early to start making plans for the two annual Northern Virginia BrewFests.
3rd Annual Northern Virginia Summer BrewFest
Sa…
Our beautiful weather of the past couple of days is slowly fading away with the approach of a “cut off” low pressure system. This is an upper level feature that has been – literally – cut off from the main jet stream flow, resulting in very slow movem…
Our friends over at Nelson County Life bring us this story as a hint of the upcoming Spring. The folks at Blue Mountain Brewery in Afton were planting hops on Monday.
Temps made it to the middle 60’s Monday afternoon in the Rockfish Valley of Nelson …
The 8th annual St. Patrick’s day parade at the Blue & Gray Brewery will be held on Saturday, March 13. There is a full day of events planned. The parade starts at noon on Saturday, March 13, through the Bowman Center. Irish entertainment will take …
The upper level storm system out in the Plains produced at least one photogenic tornado captured by stormchasers today in a cold core setup, meaning an upper level cold pool of air created enough instability coupled with the vorticity – “spin” – from t…
I received this in an email today from the folks a Northern Virginia Magazine. It’s probably most suited for our Northern Virginia friends, but I thought I’d pass it along. The magazine is holding a content to help folks get over any blues brought on b…
This is absolutely not news to any reader here, but apparently it is possible to get into a top college without the AP classes, 99th percentile SAT, president of the honor society, and other cookie cutter accomplishments of the typical high achieving high school student.
That is good news, because my kids are sort of […]
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The models have obviously trended warmer the last few runs as the NWS Sterling forecast office has upped our high temperature forecasts to reach the low 60’s most of this week, including today. That’s quite all right with me since it is meteorological…
