Thursday, May 15, 2008

Conformist

I've decided to break my usual rules of forecasting and use a phrase I hate using.  This is so far unprecedented and may never happen again, so listen close... today's forecast: 30% chance of rain.

Ewww!  That made me feel so dirty.  Normally I hate when meteorologists say X% chance of rain.  But occasionally it happens where even the best of us, i.e. me, just don't know.  The best chance looks to be this morning before noon.  The radar screen today looks like some sort of Kandinsky speckled artwork.  Little blurbs here and there all over the NE.  Take your umbrella out but there aren't going to be any downpours and it's not going to be any sort of steady rain, if it does at all.  We should even see some sun mixed in throughout the day.

This spottiness is due to a weak cold front moving south out of Canada.  The front doesn't have a ton of support in its upper dynamics or its H2O fuel.  It has enough to create a little precip, but nothing to get too excited about.  The front sort of wears itself out tonight and an attached, strengthening low pushes east for Friday.  This low could possibly make for some decent rain.  The computer models are still disagreeing a bit as to which track the low will take.  Right now most of it looks to move through south Jersey and out into LI, possibly missing us, but it's too early to tell.  The weather for the rest of the weekend looks just as unsure as today and tomorrow with lots of "mini-systems" passing throughout the weekend.  Only time will tell.  Stay tuned!

Today: Scattered, light showers.  Cloudy skies with a few peeks at the sun.  High 71. Winds N @ 6-9mph.
Tonight:  Cloudy.  Evening lows in the upper 60s, down to 53 by morning.
Tomorrow:  Afternoon showers and cooler.  High 57.

3 comments:

Sam Dunaiski said...

Maggie, I'm trying to sexify the weather here, and you're turning it into a mall beauty-contest.

Maggie said...

I thought pictures of cool weather was sexy, and a cartoon of you kicking Sam Champion's ass (as was suggested by a loyal fan) could be uber sexy. I don't see the problem here... except for the fact that I might have to learn me some fancy compuerin' to figure out how to do that one... maybe on a slow day in lab.

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