Although this graphic doesn’t look as hopeful as the previous post’s there still may be a chance for some Tuesday boomers here. If the cold frontal passage is phased with peak heating that afternoon I might get another lease on chasing life this …
The 8th Annual Fredericksburg Oktoberfest takes place this weekend at the Blue & Gray Brewery. The brewery’s new location allows for an expanded venue so there’s plenty of room this year. I stopped by Friday afternoon and enjoyed a couple of 1/2 li…
Earlier this week, a friend of mine with a young teenage daughter sent me a link to this article… “Facebook is Spreading Like the Plague”. The premise of the author’s message (and I paraphrase here) is that Facebook is evil and will be the ruin of ma…
I am always grateful when my mother and mother-in-law keep me in supply of lots of delicious recipes! This wonderful apple salad recipe from my mother-in-law has been slightly altered to make it even more low calorie. It has the same wonderful taste wi…
With an upper level low forecast to be meandering around the southeastern U.S. early next week the prospects of a chase opportunity are beginning to peek around the corner. This MLCAPE graphic for Tuesday afternoon indicates enough instability t…
I hear it all the time: “I was just going with the flow of traffic.” I don’t mean to be crass, but that’s not going to matter. We have a lot of potential arguments and tactics to fight speeding and reckless driving charges, but this isn’t one of them. Virginia law prohibits exceeding the speed [...]
Anne Little with Tree Fredericksburg is looking for volunteers to help plant trees with her on Saturday mornings in October. She can be reached at treefred@cox.net or by phone at 207-4298.
The toilet bowl struck again:Most of the really good convection happened well north and well south of our area as seen in the above radar grab. There was a nice lee trough just east of the Blue Ridge that fired a couple of really nice warned cell…
Last week I noticed that all my keyword searched from Firefox address bar were going to Bing. This wouldn’t be that surprising, except that I run Linux! I still have absolutely no idea what was causing it. I deleted Bing from the search tools list, and I edited URL.Keyword to point to the default, Google. [...]
This 4 km WRF radar view for 6:00 pm tomorrow shows a significant line of storms crossing the Northern VA area. They look somewhat chaseable, but I have yet to find significant support from other models for these storms (altho’ there are hints of…
