Monday, May 9, 2011

its raining squirrels and rain

This is what I walked out to this morning near the side of my house... oh yeah and it was raining!

You Know its going to be a great day when you wake up and hear the booming of thunder and the shaking of your probably not legitimate foundation underneath your apartment. Also when you walk outside to a squirrel rummaging through the garbage too. Today turned out to be a decently nice day though of course after the craptastic thunderstorms had passed. Temperatures reached 57 degrees with about 60 percent cloud cover at 8 pm when I was walking home. Winds are coming from the Northeast at 10 miles per hour. Tomorrow I expect the clouds to hang around and the humidity to be pretty high along with the temperature, which could get up to 76 degrees. I think the high dewpoint and humidity will lead to some on and off again rain as the heat brings some instability in the atmosphere .

Thursday, May 5, 2011

bi-polar weather

After a gorgeous day of sunshine we were once again reminded by mother nature that it is spring. Today started off with some precipitation that discipated by later in the morning. Cloud cover was at 100% stratocumulus which discipated as the day went on. The temperature is 54 degrees and the winds are coming from the south west at 14 miles per hour. A dome of high pressure is on its way which will clear things out for tomorrow. Temperatures should be in the mid sixties then for the rest of the weekend, but the sun will not be sticking around all weekend. : (