April 15, 2007
ShareGood Sunday & Monday, As I predicted in my earlier post today, the guys at NWS in DC / Sterling finally decided it was time to issue a high wind warning for tonight beginning at 8PM EDT until 2PM EDT Tuesday morning. I have no idea why these guys never saw the same data I [...]
April 15, 2007
ShareHere’s Paul Saunders at The Wintergreen Nature Foundation signing my copy of his new book, Heartbeats of Nelson. Be sure and get your copy at the Nelson County Folk Life Festival at Pharsalia April 21 & 22. You can also attend the signing at The Nelson Center April 29. The 600+ pages of this book [...]
April 15, 2007
ShareUpdated 4.15.07 12:38 PM EDT for flood watch expiration @ 4PM Flood watch will remain in effect until 4PM EDT. Far southern counties may even hear a clap of thunder as a warm front is down there in the vicinity creating dynamics favorable for thundershowerrs and moderate to heavy rain. Generally speaking we have seen [...]
April 13, 2007
ShareUpdated 4-14-07 1:31 EDT This is why I always say don’t always listen to the National Weather Service in DC. They, many times, don’t know what’s happening on the ground here in Nelson so far down south. NWS Forecast as of 1251 PM EDT Sat Apr 14 2007 Now Expect occasional sprinkles through the early [...]
April 12, 2007
ShareGood Thurs evening and Friday morning to all, What a beautiful day on Thursday. Yvette and I spent some time over at Oak Ridge looking over their new facilities. Heather showed us the new building, what a beautiful place. Check out the sky in this picture below. This is the old carriage house on the [...]
April 11, 2007
ShareStory and photos by, Tommy Stafford, Nelson County Life Magazine Tuesday I spent much of the afternoon out at Delfosse Vineyard and Winery relocating the NCL-Delfosse Winery Weathernet station. It was too near the actual vineyard so we wanted to get it out of the way before the spraying season begins. Was a near perfect [...]
April 11, 2007
ShareUpdated: 4-11-07 10:32 EDT – Wintergreen Snow Ok as mother nature can do, she has this time, thrown me a curve. When it happens I admit it. I missed the chance that mountain temps wouldn’t warm enough to avoid snow up there. Sure enough our photographer and Wintergreen mountain resident, Paul Purpura just sent these [...]
April 10, 2007
ShareGood morning, Just a quick update for Tuesday morning weatherwise, I’ll have more detail later in the day. Look for mostly sunny skies today and moderating temps. We’ll easily make it into the mid and upper 50′s today in the valley with slightly cooler temps above in the mountains. Wouldn’t be surprised if we hit [...]
April 9, 2007
ShareUpdated: Monday evening 10:18 PM EDT 4.9.2007 Looks like precip may stay away long enough Tuesday night to avoid the snow mentioned earlier today. Right now the temps Tues night look to bottom out around 31 or 32 degrees and the rain looks to hold off until roughly 9ish or so Wed morning. By then [...]
April 7, 2007
ShareGood Saturday morning! Well as we discussed last evening the snow fell overnight. We ended up with about an inch of snow here at the office in Greenfield. Not overly surprised. The upper level low moved by last night and gave us anywhere from an inch of snow here in the valley to a little [...]