Weather Reporting: January 29
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 8:35PM Featured in this last January weather report is our very own roving weather reporter, Darlene, who sends us, first, a photo of the view from her southern California front porch. Notice the clear blue sky, snowcapped mountains, and palm tree.
She also travelled hundreds of miles, maybe a thousand, to show us the conditions in the mountains of Washington, where snow is falling….from the trees.
While we’re on the subject of views from the front porch, here’s mine, taken this morning (garbage pick up day) right after the ice fog lifted. It was about -37 when I took this photo. Notice the clear blue sky, snowcapped mountains, but no palm tree.
More weather reporting
- What is wind chill anyway? How is it determined? Let Violet answer all your pressing wind chill questions!
- Candyinsierras is thankful for storms:
A couple of weeks ago, the news media reported that we were to receive possibly the worst storm in 50 years. I just rolled my eyes. By the time storms reach us, since we are on the rainshadow side of the mountains, it usually dwindles down to a whimper of a storm. The mountains did receive a good deal of snow, and it did dwindle down to an inch or so down in the valley where I live. The news media is so sensational sometimes. Now the past couple of days, we have had a pretty good storm and an avalanche on one of the highways. I like what my pastor said yesterday. He stated that not one flake of snow falls without God sovereignly ordaining it, so I am very thankful for the snow. We always need the moisture in my part of the world. The Sierra Nevada range is what provides our water, and I am always thankful for every storm that comes our way.
- Kim reviews the weather for the month of January in Chicagoland, where they’ve had “a little bit of everything—from double digit below zero temps to mud soup, from snow to fog, and everything in between.”
- And I’ve never been happier about cold weather in the Yukon, because it gave me something to write about, finally. Are you still curious about life at forty below? You’ll can find out more here.
- Update: Carla tells us about the weather warning for today in southern Ontario.
Currently (as of 10:45pm), we’re under a flash freeze/high wind/freezing rain/blowing snow warning for overnight and into tomorrow. Along with the warnings, there is a chance of t-storms overnight. Our current temp is 45f and the high for tomorrow is 16f. My husband said the only thing NOT included in this warning is a forest fire or wayard comet hitting. I’ll be checking for those in tomorrow morning’s updated forecast.
rebecca
Check out Kathy’s photos of the recent PEI ice storm. There are photos of something even more interesting than and ice storm in that post, too.
Reader Comments (6)
It WAS fun! Currently (as of 10:45pm) , we're under a flash freeze/high wind/freezing rain/blowing snow warning for overnight and into tomorrow. Along with the warnings, there is a chance of t-storms overnight. Our current temp is 45f and the high for tomorrow is 16f. My husband said the only thing NOT included in this warning is a forest fire or wayard comet hitting. I'll be checking for those in tomorrow morning's updated forecast.
It figures that your month of weather reports end just as the weather here in Southern Ontario gets interesting.
We're under a flash freeze warning, freezing rain, and gusting winds.
It's very nasty.
I hope my students don't come across your site and see my poor grammar. I didn't notice until you posted my comment.
I'm not seeing it, cis, but if it is really bothering you, you can pop me an email and tell me what you want changed and I'll do it. :)
Awww thanks...my students are only in fourth and fifth grade so they won't notice my grammar anyways. I would have written "each" storm instead of "every" storm and changed "pretty good" to something else. Maybe I am more paranoid about homeschool moms than students. :)
Hi Rebecca
Check out the pictures of the ice storm in PEI on my blog.It fell mainly as rain in our part of the Island but the western part was hit really hard with freezing rain and ice.They've had no power since Monday. Not fun . . .