I have a personal policy not to say the word “hot” when describing the weather until August. Prior to that, I use “warm” and “quite warm.” So, it will be another quite warm July day today with temperature pushing 100 degrees. I suspect that tomorrow, however, will be hot.
Weather Service says cool it.
Here’s the [...]
Posting from near West Jefferson.
Well, coulda sat around and listened to the end of the legislative session, but I had one of those rare opportunities to crawl around through a rhododendren hell with a couple of botanists in search of rare plants populations in a soggy, thick mountain bog. The official description of where I [...]
Apparently, Beryl stirred up a mess of jellyfish, which happens from time to time along the Carolina coast. So far reports are from Carolina Beach and Wrightsville. Having been stung a few times myself I can say it really smarts, especially if you get caught up with one and get multiple stings. There’s good—and creepy—jellyfish [...]
Update: Jeff Masters says Beryl intesifying as it crosses the Gulf Stream and points us to a lovely sea temp graphic via NOAA. No evacuations. Video from weather.com guy in Nags Head.
Update: NHC corrects a pronunciation problem in its latest forecast discussion.
THE LAST RECON PASS THROUGH THE CENTER OF BERYL THIS MORNING
INDICATED THE PRESSURE HAD [...]
Right now, the surface winds are at 40 mph, but there’s a decent chance we might see a Cat 1 off our coast in a day or so. Here’s Dr. Jeff’s weatherblog, WRAL and the NHC discussion on Mr. B.
Winds are already up around 18 kts at buoy station 41001—150 miles NE of Cape Hatteras.
Wunderground, National Weather Service and weather geeks all-round are keeping an eye on what’s left of a system off the East Coast and what may happen to it. Two lows with T-storms and the like are in the area.
From the NHC:
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
1130 AM EDT MON JUL 17 2006
FOR THE [...]
This was just after the first Gulf War. Soviet support had evaporated with that empire. Things were tense and needed paint. Everything was being thrown into the Pan Am games a couple of months away. I was with a class from UNC. Our minders never left our side. Not once.