Thursday, May 12, 2005
Springing back
Steve Scolnik @ 3:10 PM
Currently
The cold front which passed through the Washington metro area between 2am and 3am this morning has moved south to become stationary across northeastern North Carolina this afternoon. Temperatures in the area at 3pm were in the range of 70-72, except for Stafford, which reported 77. There was little change at 4pm, with several readings a degree higher at 73. Light rain at noon was measured as a trace. Regional radar currently shows a few showers south of Charlottesville moving southeastward.
Outlook
Under partly cloudy skies, low temperatures tonight will be in the upper 40's to around 50. Mostly cloudy skies and easterly to southeasterly winds will be associated tomorrow with highs only in the un-May-like low 60's (more typical of the first week of April).
Hockey season
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) reported yesterday that 2 papers have been submitted to scientific journals dealing with the "hockey stick" issue of global temperature records. NCAR paleoclimatologist Caspar Ammann and Eugene Wahl of Alfred University have developed a computer model which confirms the hockey-stick shaped historical temperature graph reported by earlier researchers in 1998. For a "dummies guide" to the hockey stick issue, as well as links to more technical discussions, see an earlier post in the RealClimate blog co-authored by Ammann.
The cold front which passed through the Washington metro area between 2am and 3am this morning has moved south to become stationary across northeastern North Carolina this afternoon. Temperatures in the area at 3pm were in the range of 70-72, except for Stafford, which reported 77. There was little change at 4pm, with several readings a degree higher at 73. Light rain at noon was measured as a trace. Regional radar currently shows a few showers south of Charlottesville moving southeastward.
Outlook
Under partly cloudy skies, low temperatures tonight will be in the upper 40's to around 50. Mostly cloudy skies and easterly to southeasterly winds will be associated tomorrow with highs only in the un-May-like low 60's (more typical of the first week of April).
Hockey season
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) reported yesterday that 2 papers have been submitted to scientific journals dealing with the "hockey stick" issue of global temperature records. NCAR paleoclimatologist Caspar Ammann and Eugene Wahl of Alfred University have developed a computer model which confirms the hockey-stick shaped historical temperature graph reported by earlier researchers in 1998. For a "dummies guide" to the hockey stick issue, as well as links to more technical discussions, see an earlier post in the RealClimate blog co-authored by Ammann.
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