Today’s cool and dry late August weather is a wonderful break from the recent sauna conditions, but the heat will return. Check out this temperature graphic forecast for Tuesday afternoon:Now to be fair I think this model overdoes the temperature…
This visible satellite shot provides a good indicator of the cold front that is bisecting the Old Dominion at the moment. As indicated by the tower just west of Richmond there is a strong cell with radar markers indicating up to 3/4″ hailstones, …
TS Danielle will probably be a hurricane again soon, but check out systems of interest #1 and #2. Also, notice the next wave due to slide off the African coast and hit the equatorial Atlantic peeking in from the lower right edge of this satellite…
See that swirl of clouds over central Pennsylvania in the satellite image above? That’s the signature of an upper level low – a low pressure center that hasn’t materialized on the surface yet – that is drifting in our direction. Every major…
Can we say “FROPA”? Well, at least a prefrontal convective line; the true frontal passage looks like it occurred a couple hours after this radar view. This looks a lot more impressive than it really was at the time, since the storms intensi…
Not much happening storm chase wise, with just a chance of garden variety thunderstorms tomorrow and not much else this week. So, in the interest of keeping my sanity I’m noticing other features such as the surface observation map above.&nb…
This shows the Climate Prediction Center’s 8-14 day precipitation forecast for our region and it doesn’t look very moist. Even tho’ the temperatures are supposed to moderate into the 80’s this coming week – thanks to an East Coast upper level tro…
This is a graphic showing the radar-estimated precipitation accumulation for today. Looks like Fredericksburg and the immediately surrounding counties missed the big rains – again – today. The pesky cold front stalled just to our south and …
The reasons I started this blog are pretty well illustrated in this video from the BBC. We too have unique local characteristics that affect our weather, such as the Rappahannock River valley that rapidly widens from I-95 to the Stafford/Ki…
This National Weather Service graphic shows the predicted precipitation totals for the period 8 p.m. tonight through 8 p.m. tomorrow. One of those aforementioned low pressure systems is supposed to kick up along the front that is nearly overhead …
