WVclimo

Some decent gusts and brief torrential rainfall with the line here. It’s moving through quickly. No thunder or lightning.

My sixth grader has had quite a tumultuous school year. Attended school 2 days a week for the first 6 weeks, then had 13 weeks of remote learning when the schools closed. Followed by 3 weeks of 2 days a week again, and then finally got back to 5 days a week for the past 6 weeks which made a world of difference for him. Best we have seen him do in a year. Yesterday we got word he had close contact with a COVID-positive student and was being quarantined from school for 10 days. Which actually will be almost 3 weeks since his time ends at the beginning of a week-long Spring break. I told him he should shoot for straight A’s in the last quarter as an FU to the whole damned pandemic. He liked the idea. Hope he stays healthy and motivated.

WV continues to do an excellent job of getting the COVID vaccines administered. With the exception of my 12 year-old son, our whole household has had a shot. I got my first shot on the 8th, mother-in-law had hers on the 9th, and yesterday my wife (39 year-old daycare provider) and daughter (17 year-old with asthma) got their first jabs.

Martinsburg reported a temp/dew point this afternoon of 59/1 with 9% RH.

Yep. The wording for the areas in the purple (Extreme) category on this map spells out the potential impacts pretty well.

Lots of focus on Colorado, but Wyoming looks like ground zero for this one. Here is Laramie's forecast. Check out the winds.

At least it caps the number of NY and BOS fans that can take over the yard. Wonder what those cities are doing ?

No doubt another season of high heat will be tough to take. It's the only type of weather we are guaranteed every year. Gets harder the older I get.

That's the one I am hoping has a shot. Couple things to like with the setup as progged so far out. And I'll be at Deep Creek Lake at that time, where March snow isn't uncommon.

Helps to be the boss too. The guy I work for stopped by my office this morning to say that he was pulling his kids out of school and heading for Winter Park today to powder chase. Returning Tuesday.

Frosty 17 degrees here this morning.

Just came in from a long walk. That wind is pretty fierce. NW 21 G33. 36 degrees.

High of 61 after a low of 20. Only see a 40-degree spread like that a few times a year.

Mt. Washington recorded a 231 mph gust, the highest wind speed recorded in the US and the world to that point, on April 12, 1934. Still holds the US record, but an island site off of western Australia recorded 253 in a tropical cyclone. Don’t know what their lowest wind chill is though.

Getting a few flurries. 39/30. Wind NW 19 G31. Guess this qualifies as a Lion?

Rain is moving away. 1.20" storm total

Wind advisory posted for later today for gusts up to 50 mph.

Rivers and creeks in our region are either flooding now or expected to in the next 36 hours. Including mainstream rivers.

Last of the snow cover in my garden that’s been on the ground since 1/31

In 1995, I dropped a couple grand on an HP Pavilion 5030 desktop “multimedia” computer. It featured an Intel Pentium 75MHz processor, 8MB RAM, and an 850MB hard drive. With the 14.4kbps dialup, it took about 10-12 minutes to load one model map. I remember waiting for hours late one night to see all the parameters on the ETA run leading up to the ‘96 blizzard.

In rural areas where phone lines had not yet reached full penetration, party line service was offered as a subscription. These were lines that serviced anywhere from 5-20 households. Each subscriber had their own dedicated ring. At our house, one long ring followed by two short rings meant a call was coming for us. A neighbor would have a different ring sequence, so you didn’t answer those. Since it wasn’t a private line, if you picked up the phone you could listen to others’ conversations. Etiquette said that if you broke into the conversation to announce you had to make an urgent call, the other parties would wrap up their call.

Absolutely I remember. Used to frustrate me that I wasn’t able to see it with our B&W TV. We were a typical family though. It wasn’t until 1972 when a majority of the TV sets sold in the US were Color TVs. My folks bought one a year later, a 15” floor model, for $300.00. It was a big deal for us.

When I was young, before the cable came to our area, we could pick up one TV channel clearly: WJAC channel 6 from Johnstown, PA. It was an NBC affiliate. We also had a party line telephone. It rang all the time, but only some of those calls were for us. If you picked up the phone you could hear others’ conversations. If you needed to make a call, you could ask the others to relinquish the line. Sometimes they did. A lot of times they didn’t.

Looks like a potentially significant flooding event for W Md and the high ground of eastern WV tomorrow. Couple inches of rain and temps in the 50's with all the liquid contained in that snowpack is gonna raise the rivers and creeks dramatically. Good day to chase waterfalls, but hopefully not a bad one for some of those valley towns. From the FFW:. ...Periods of moderate to heavy rain may fall on a deep primed snowpack leading to increasing melt. Flows in rivers may increase quickly and reach critical levels...

Warm air staying away from here so far. 55 in Elkins, 50 in Front Royal, 45 in Winchester. 39 and foggy in my yard. Forecast high is 57.