Friday, May 13, 2005
May Be Not
Steve Scolnik @ 3:15 PM
Currently
Several warm days this week have not been enough to erase the temperature deficit this month, and today is certainly not improving the situation. A southeasterly breeze from a high pressure area centered to our north and east is bringing clouds and early-spring temperatures to the Washington metro area this afternoon. Temperatures struggled to reach 60 at noon, and at mid-afternoon they were in the low 60's, except for Stafford and Culpeper, which were both 66. The Culpeper robot ("automated observation with no human augmentation") phoned home a report of 68 at 4pm. At the beach, Ocean City was only 54. Humidity was generally 50-60%; precipitation, however, was absent except for showers, some of them heavy, in southernmost West Virginia. The showers were associated with a warm front trying to work its way back northeastward. Behind the front, temperatures were into the 80's by early afternoon in the Ohio Valley.
Outlook
As the high drifts off the coast, the warm front will move across the area, bringing warmer temperatures for Saturday. Lows tonight in the upper 50's should be followed by highs returning to near 80 under partly cloudy skies tomorrow. There is a chance of showers late in the afternoon or in the evening. See Jason's post below for the rest of the weekend, and check back for updates on Sunday.
Santorum Status
The NWS Employees Organization has a link on their web site to an article "Reining in the Weather Service" in the Newark NJ Star-Ledger yesterday by Bill Walsh of Newhouse News Service. The article's conclusion: "The forecast for the bill's passage is cloudy. Filed April 14, it still had no co-sponsors as of May 11."
Several warm days this week have not been enough to erase the temperature deficit this month, and today is certainly not improving the situation. A southeasterly breeze from a high pressure area centered to our north and east is bringing clouds and early-spring temperatures to the Washington metro area this afternoon. Temperatures struggled to reach 60 at noon, and at mid-afternoon they were in the low 60's, except for Stafford and Culpeper, which were both 66. The Culpeper robot ("automated observation with no human augmentation") phoned home a report of 68 at 4pm. At the beach, Ocean City was only 54. Humidity was generally 50-60%; precipitation, however, was absent except for showers, some of them heavy, in southernmost West Virginia. The showers were associated with a warm front trying to work its way back northeastward. Behind the front, temperatures were into the 80's by early afternoon in the Ohio Valley.
Outlook
As the high drifts off the coast, the warm front will move across the area, bringing warmer temperatures for Saturday. Lows tonight in the upper 50's should be followed by highs returning to near 80 under partly cloudy skies tomorrow. There is a chance of showers late in the afternoon or in the evening. See Jason's post below for the rest of the weekend, and check back for updates on Sunday.
Santorum Status
The NWS Employees Organization has a link on their web site to an article "Reining in the Weather Service" in the Newark NJ Star-Ledger yesterday by Bill Walsh of Newhouse News Service. The article's conclusion: "The forecast for the bill's passage is cloudy. Filed April 14, it still had no co-sponsors as of May 11."
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