Hello everyone,
Pardon my absence, but I was busy revamping the list that I moderate
(VA_StormNet). I added warnings & NWS forecast products to this list,
courtesy of Weatherguys.com. Also, I changed the text of the "charter"
and signature file that ends each message.
On to "ancient" weather, from Sunday 4/16. A thunderstorm passed to
within 4 miles of my location. It produced occasional lightning (once
every minute or two), and hail from pea to marble size. A swath of .5"
of rain fell in it's path.
The lightning knock out several traffic lights & fried a secondary
police radio frequency. There were a few power outages in the hour long
storm.
At my location, we barely had rain (30 seconds), but no close lightning
& a pwg of 11 mph.
photo 1: a lightning strike about 7 miles NE of my location
http://pix.onelist.com/attach/429973/302/gs-42=99=429973/10-1-10-19/image=jpeg/snapshot.jpg
With a high 81 on Sunday, & humidity, it felt like 83. The cold front
arrived about 2am Monday. The daytime temp Mon fell thru the 50s, and on
Tue the temp hovered in the low 40s. With a breeze, the windchill was
around freezing throughout the day.
Rain fell at times Mon, and most of the day Tue. When it ended, just
over an inch had fallen.
photo 2: wet birds on a feeder
http://pix.onelist.com/attach/429973/303/gs-42=99=429973/10-1-10-19/image=jpeg/snapshot.jpg
And today, for the first day this week, we had seasonable temps, & for
only the 2nd day this week, we had sun. But what had been a partly sunny
day, clouded over about 4pm. A high of 68, a low of 41.
photo 3: evening cloud cover
http://pix.onelist.com/attach/429973/304/gs-42=99=429973/10-1-10-19/image=jpeg/snapshot.jpg
I will likely not post Thur, or if i do it will be late night. That's
because the yard needs mowed, and Thur will be the only dry day the rest
of this week. Thunderstorms are likely Friday, & may linger Sat.
If any modertor or list owner would be interested in setting up an
automated warning or forecast system for their lists, you may use
http://weatherguys.com. They have one requirement: THEY MUST NOT GET
MAIL FROM THE LIST. I found out the hard way. On Monday, after i
activated the account, i forgot to reset their status to "no mail". They
received some 3 dozen warnings & forecasts back. They did not like that
& revoked the account. {I had reset the status about 4am Tue, but the
messages had already been set. I made amends with them, & the list is
now receiving them again.
Also, i would suggest setting up a specific type of warning [tornados or
hurricanes], ect <or> to a specific region or state, such as my list-
[VA_StormNet]
Steve Minghini, Winchester (nw) VA
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