Friday, April 9, 2010

The Stargazer

West Virginia will keep a dry forecast through the overnight & weekend. It looks like for the next week or so we may only see a few measly drops of new rainfall. Across the state tonight, we’ll quickly return to a trend of tranquil weather likened to the latest weekly high pressure regime. Weak low pressure may bring patchy clouds and a brief rain shower Sunday night/Monday morning. Otherwise, things stay very dry next week until another wooly rain cloud threatens our weekend. Confidence in these for now, imaginary rain systems is very low. Will discuss rain potential later.

The temperature is a different tune entirely. To illustrate our temperatures over the weekend and through next week we should all get really drunk, spin around in a chair 10xs and toss our share of darts from across the room at a dartboard. Tonight we’ll see temps creep back to the low 30s. Higher elevations could see hard freeze below 30. A frost warning has been posted for much of the state. Saturday temps will struggle to reach the mid 60s. On Sunday many stations across the state will record a 30-40 degree range in temperatures from sunrise to sunset. We’ll again begin the day in the low 30s, but will easily reach the low 70s before dusk. Folks that care will need to keep an eye out for frost & take necessary preventative measures to protect vegetation already in bloom over the coming weeks.

Warm air returns to the mountain state by Sunday. The dark blue & purple represents cooler air, which as you can see will be pushed north allowing warmer tropical air in.

New moon occurs next Wednesday. The high pressure trend will keep our skies relatively clear. Less moonlight along with fewer clouds, a jacket and maybe a few of those beers and you could do some serious stargazing on a few nights next week…I’m just sayin.