Frost Advisory Tonight
Greetings and welcome!
The weekend forecast was an epic failure. It was supposed to be nice Saturday except for a chance of rain later. That turned into rain all day and an inch of the stuff adding up. We did get the later wave of rain Saturday too. It finally stopped about 7pm with only a few sprinkles after that.
The cold front that brought us rain Friday was supposed to sink south and give the southern half of the state the treatment that we saw Saturday. It stayed a little north and had broader coverage than expected and it was not a nice day Saturday.
Sunday and Sunday night were a little cooler than normal, and today we are not in the 70s, but the mid-50s. Tonight we have a frost advisory where the NWS is looking for lows in the 29-34 degree range.
The colder than expected stuff we can blame on a very large area of high pressure on the periphery of the former hurricane. The NAM model is showing it with pressures as high as 1024.
The clockwise flow will bring old air down from Canada and give us the cold day and night. Tomorrow look a little more normal with temps in the upper 60s to low 70s, but Tuesday night could go into the low 40s.
This too will pass. Once the high pressure passes and we start seeing the return flow we are in for normal high and lows of around 70/55 through next weekend according to the NWS.
It is likely that I will be among many that might light the wood burner tonight if the temps go into the 30s. That is a good time to remind people to clean their chimney or stove pipes.
If you don’t have a brush, they aren’t that much money. You can get the brush for under $20 and the 3′ rods for as cheap as $8 each on E-Bay. Menards, Fleet Farm or the local hardware shouldn’t be too much more.
Chimney fires are bad news. Especially with the more efficient wood burners like I have it is important to maintain your pipes or chimney regularly. I probably cleaned it 3x last year and the spring cleaning was pretty built up.
Someone brought up the point last night that if we do go into the 20s tonight that should spell doom for a lot of pesky bugs. That wouldn’t bother me, the gnats were pretty thick last week cutting firewood.
RJB