Happy July 4th, and welcome back the 90’s for high temperatures. Oh, and BTW check out this forecast graphic for afternoon temperatures for Thursday. Be sure to note the color temperature key at the bottom. This week the purple …
Enjoy today’s cool temperatures and tomorrow’s moderate conditions because the heat is coming back with a vengeance. The forecast calls for high temperatures Sunday thru Friday next week in the mid-90’s or higher, altho’ Sunday and perhaps part o…
73 degrees air temperature over 55 degrees dewpoint at 4:00 pm…now that’s more like it!! Wish we could stay that way for several weeks but reality will set back in by Monday with high temperatures forecast to be back into the upper 90’s. …
Today’s total rainfall map via the Sterling NWS radar. See the white circle within which there was no rain today? Need I say more?
How does a low temperature in the 50’s grab you? That’s the official NWS Sterling forecast for Fredericksburg both Wednesday and Thursday mornings this week, with Friday morning’s low all the way up to 60 degrees as a longwave trough settles over…
Storms fired this afternoon along a lee trough east of the Blue Ridge, with the best action fading northeastward into the DC metro area where I refuse to chase. There were several severe TS warnings there, but we missed all that action. Non…
A rather vigorous cold front is forecast to wash through here Monday, bringing a small chance for severe storms and ushering in cooler more June-like weather for the latter half of the week. The SPC Day 2 outlook only shows our area firmly under …
Current readings at the Stafford Regional Airport show a temperature of 90 degrees F with a dewpoint of 73, giving rise to a “heat index” of 99 degrees. Listening to the news media and to various idle chatter one would think that if anyone even d…
TS Alex has formed in the Caribbean. Given the forecasts for the current season this may be the first in a long line of storms. Will it affect us? Not directly, based on the forecast track. Indirectly it could (a) mess with gaso…
Now that we’ve settled into a record-setting June heat the upper level wind pattern is forecast to shift dramatically this coming week. Instead of the west-to-east flow we’ve been experiencing the jet stream is forecast to “kink” significantly th…
