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Snow this weekend, and rain on Christmas?!!

By From http://fburg-weather.blogspot.com/ • Dec 16th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The forecast models are starting to converge on a solution that appears to throw some snow our way this coming Saturday into Sunday. (Surprise! Yet another wet weekend!!) Based on the current amounts of moisture and available surface temperatures we…



Dryer weather ahead

By From http://fburg-weather.blogspot.com/ • Dec 14th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Thankfully we seem to be out of the wet gray pattern we’ve been in for a while. Our respite, while chilly, will last through next weekend and the long term forecast doesn’t show any major storm systems headed our way through the middle of next week. …



It is a small world…

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Dec 11th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Last night I attended a Basics 1 Skywarn training as a refresher as I hadn’t had a class since 2005. The briefer was Greg Schoor, one of the forecasters from the NWS Sterling office. During the first half of the class he mentioned he had graduated fr…



Gonna miss the slick stuff

By From http://fburg-weather.blogspot.com/ • Dec 11th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Ahhhhh, the models have come in with warmer air at the surface for Sunday’s precipitation event. Thus the ice I was concerned about won’t happen anywhere near here, and the above graphic only holds a 10% probability for ice in the mountains. We will …



No storms, but some wind!

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Dec 9th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

We didn’t get any storms out of today’s system, just lots of rain overnight and early morning. Now we’re waiting for the cold front to punch through here and entertain us with wind gusts up to 50 mph. At the moment the front seems to have just crosse…



Flood warning tonight, snow Saturday into Sunday

By From http://fburg-weather.blogspot.com/ • Dec 8th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

We are currently under a flood watch for tonight and early tomorrow (Wednesday) due to an approaching system that could dump 1-3″ of rain on our already soaked heads. Looks like we’ll escape the ice that the mountains will see, but the above graphic d…



Thunderstorms and tornadoes(?) for eastern Virginia

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Dec 8th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

This SPC graphic shows the potential for tornadoes through 7:00 am tomorrow morning. Given the predicted instability ahead of an approaching cold front and the available wind shear a few isolated tornadoes aren’t out of the question for the eastern ha…



Ice for the Shenandoah Valley tomorrow

By From http://fburg-weather.blogspot.com/ • Dec 7th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Please keep it over there…I really don’t want to deal with ice around here tomorrow!! Meanwhile pay attention to the forecasts for this coming weekend. There will be plenty of cold air around and a low pressure may form off Cape Hatteras (again!). …



Snow depth reports from 5 December

By From http://fburg-weather.blogspot.com/ • Dec 6th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The official NWS Sterling snow report list can be found here. I think my 2″ prediction for Fredericksburg held very close to ground truth (if I do say so myself). Now we have to keep an eye on the next system barreling across the U.S. as we could be …



May 28th 2009 original wall cloud

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Dec 6th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Sitting here with snow melting – slowly – outside I needed a convective fix so I reviewed some photos from the May 28th King George county chase during which I witnessed a surprise funnel drop under a rain free base to the west. Prior to that I had be…