March Daily Weather, Spring has Sprung!!!

Good morning and Happy Easter! :-)

It's overcast with a very slight drizzling of rain, very light breeze and 40°F.

Debi - Thanks :-) That clematis is gorgeous! And are those azaleas blooming in the background?

Ric - that's a lot of water!

Sharon - fantastic sunrise!

Adina - those spring blooms are so pretty :-)

Have a great day everyone!

Rann

No Sharon this was a minor flood.
Parts of the Park are under water but just barely.
I'd say the Outdoor Concert Hall is under and parts of the back Parking Lot..
The Lake Como area where the Show will be is
High, Dry and covered w/ Ducks and Geese.

At 52' it's more an inconvience than a threat.
Now 55' + it gets into Evacuation Mode here.
Well not 'Here' as we are up on the top of the Valley.
But the 'River Rats' they be a movin'!

Like cloud cover and 28° here going for 46°
Same tomorrow... then the temps will start rising fast.
62° by Tuesday 68° by Friday.
But Rain will move back in again.

The Flowering Pictures are terrific you guys!
I tried a Daff shot but it was too dark.
So here's a Pulmonaria
Ric

HAPPY EASTER!!!
Sidney – Love that opening picture!
TF – Love all the chick pics! Too cute!
Ric – Your cabinets and speakers look great! And what a great idea!
E_B – Beautful Winter pictures!
Kelli – Those are some colorful names you came up with! LOL! California is lovely wearing green. I’ll be looking for your article 10/1.
Rann – Spring! Pretty blooms you’ve got!
Kiska – Love the pictures! I bet those sea horses were amazing up close. You’ll have to let us know if you win the guessing game!
Marsue – I hope all is well on your end.
Joey – Beautiful daffodils! I’m going with B. So glad Garrett made some money on the bike!
Marylyn – Glad you found your camera (snicker!)! I may have done that before! LOL! I miss seeing the bluebonnets on the side of the interstates. Beautiful butterfly. The white flowers aren’t amaryllis, I’m thinking phlox. That “contraption” big bunny was on looks like an exercise machine! Great pictures!
Adina – Hope you’re feeling better today. Beautiful trees!
Pepper – Glad you are safe from the floods.
Deb – Thanks! Beautiful clematis!
Ric – OMG – The flooding is horrible. Doesn't look minor to me...
Rann- Beautiful yellow flowers! What are they?

68.2 °F / 20.1 °C
Scattered Clouds
Humidity: 36%
Dew Point: 40 °F / 4 °C
Wind: 4.0 mph / 6 km/hfrom the NE
Wind Gust: 8.7 mph / 14 km/h
Pressure: 30.03 in / 1016.8 hPa (Rising)
Visibility: 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV: 3 out of 16
Clouds: Scattered Clouds 25000 ft / 7620 m
(Above Ground Level)
Elevation: 20 ft / 6 m

Rest of Today
Partly cloudy. High 70. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.

I have a couple of pictures I'd like to share from the sunrise service at Peters Point Beach. The service began at 7:15. Our Pastor is in the hat! It was a little chilly/breezy on the water.

The Moon going down

Here's another of the Moon

We had quite a turnout! The guy to the right in the black suit is our Youth Minister, Charlie.

The Sun coming up

Another

This one took my breath away

The areas that are flooded are designed too.
They are basically recreation areas that the water can't hurt too much.
Plus it fertilizes the grass.... lol!
And feeds the water birds and scavengers.
By Tuesday it will all be about drained off.

Ric

We sat in the wrong spot. Next year we need to be to the right of the crosses so I can catch the sunrise behind them and Pastor Jeff.

This message was edited Mar 23, 2008 11:01 AM

Ric - Glad the flooding wasn't as bad as it looks.

I'm so blessed to live here!

Sharon: Beautiful photos - regardless of your vantage point!
Rann - Yes, those are azaleas. They are really blooming big this year.
Ric - No much soccer being played on your field apparently. :)

Went to visit a fellow DGer yesterday and swap some plants. These guys were near the road to their house. Enjoying the spring sun.

Meanwhile (Grrrr!); Freeze warning for tomorrow night! Crikey! Not now. All my gingers are up, even the verbena is blooming. Sigh.
Deb

Happy Easter!

I'm behind again :((

We have 35* and snow that doesn't stick. It's mostly chilly and gloomy. I've been sowing a lot of flower seeds!!

Happy Easter all
It's sunny and clear.
Joey I beleave it's inversion. Theis is a major proublem with El Paso as they have (or did have) a steel mill and those fumes would get trapped on the east side of the Franklin Mts.
Sharon you certainly trapped some beautiful sunrise service pictures.
I have larengitis(sp?)
Sidney

Ric, sorry, I forgot to answer your question yesterday. The yellow flowers are encelia. The giant corepsis were blooming along PCH but there weren't any where we went hiking.

Still unseasonably hot, though we have an unseasonably hot spell every year, so I guess it's seasonably unseasonable.

Van Nuys, California (Airport)
Updated: 1:51 PM PDT on March 23, 2008
85 °F / 29 °C
Clear
Humidity: 10%
Dew Point: 21 °F / -6 °C
Wind: 6 mph / 9 km/h / 2.6 m/s Variable


The big dome furthest away is St. Peter's Basilica.

Sharon: those are absolutely beautiful photos of the sunrise service. I felt like I was there. Thank you for posting them.
I've been away from the computer for 4 days and it put me way behind. I missed being here and hearing the news of you all and seeing the photos.
Ric: those photos on Flickr look a lot like parts of Arkansas looks right now.
Thankfully we didn't have any flooding in our immediate area but much of the state did haveand still has flooded areas. Thank goodness our forecast for the next 10 days is good except for tonight--it will get down into the low 30's--after that it looks like beautiful spring-like weather for a while.

My grape hyacinths have finally bloomed so it must be officially Spring. Hooray!

Kelli: great pic of the ruins and the dome in the background.

These "popped out" this week, too.

Most of the flooding has finally crested and will start going down now. The only thing to keep that from happening is more rain/snow up north or around here. It still won't take much to cause major flooding again.

Link to a local story on flooding. www.kctv5.com/weather/15664806/detail.html

Currently: 43°F Mostly Cloudy
Currently: 6°C Mostly Cloudy
Wind: Northwest at 10 MPH
Humidity: 39%
Dewpoint: 19°F
Barometer: 30.40 inches
Wind Chill: 37°F
Wind: Northwest at 16 KPH
Humidity: 39%
Dewpoint: -7°C
Barometer: 1029 millibars
Wind Chill: 2° C
Sunrise: 7:16 am
Sunset: 7:34 pm

Happy Easter, everyone!

But Ric, there's a yacht in the soccer field! That doesn't look like minor flooding to me. (LOL) My parents have a friend who lives very near the junction of the Ohio and the Muskingum in Beverly, Ohio, and she has to evacuate every spring about this time as all of the snow melts upstream.

Sharon, Ok, phlox makes more sense... It didn't look like amaryllis to me, but there were "amaryllis" signs near it in two places so I thought it was just an amaryllis I hadn't seen before. LOL Your sunrise photos were GORGEOUS!!! even if you weren't sitting in the perfect spot. :-)

Sidney, awww... I hope you feel better soon!

Deb, yikes! I hope your gingers make it ok.

Rann, those flowers are beautiful. Are you and your little ones feeling better now?

We were originally supposed to have a chilly front come through with lots of rain. I don't know where it went, but it didn't find us. :-) Well, it is cooler than yesterday, and it is going to get down in the 40s tonight, but we had no rain.

Observation for Houston, TX (KSGR) as of 6:53pm CDT (4 min ago)
Temperature 67 °F 19 °C
Dew Point 39 °F 4 °C
Humidity 37%
Pressure 30.28 in 1025.4 mb
Wind Speed 9 MPH 8 kts
Wind Dir NNE 20°
Ceiling Unlimited Unlimited
Visibility 10 mi 16.1 km
Current Conditions Clear
6 hour min temperature ending 6:53pm CDT : 66.9°F / 19.4°C
6 hour max temperature ending 6:53pm CDT : 73.9°F / 23.3°C

Glad y’all liked the pictures! We go to this service every year.
Deb – I love your turtles! Are you still under the freeze watch tonight? Hope your gingers make it :-O
Sidney – Bundle up good tonight if you’re working. Hope your throat gets better soon.
Marsue – Glad you didn’t receive any flooding. Spring is in your area too!

49.8 °F / 9.9 °C
Overcast
Windchill: 47 °F / 8 °C
Humidity: 32%
Dew Point: 21 °F / -6 °C
Wind: 8.0 mph / 12.9 km/h / 3.6 m/s from the NW
Wind Gust: 15.2 mph / 24.5 km/h
Pressure: 30.15 in / 1020.9 hPa (Rising)
Visibility: 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV: 0 out of 16
Clouds: Scattered Clouds 9500 ft / 2895 m
Overcast 25000 ft / 7620 m
(Above Ground Level)
Elevation: 20 ft / 6 m

Lake Wind Advisory in effect from 8 am this morning to 8 PM EDT this evening...

Today
Mostly cloudy early then partly cloudy. Windy and cooler. High 63. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts to 30 mph.

It got cool yesterday. Out high was 70*, but didn't make it above 68*. It was warm in the sun, but the wind was cool. We're in for an even cooler day, now I must dig out some warmer clothes. It is unusual for us to get this cool this late in the season. Might be some kind of record tonight. I'll have to look it up.

Thanks everyone~ it's good being back, but slow in catching up:)) You're right, m2keep~1/2 just doesn't quite cover it.
The eye is a bit better, too.
37*
Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Northeast wind 10 to 20 mph
My guesses for the ice-going out on the Nenana river: April 14- 6:28pm and May 9, 6:28 pm.
Love seeing spring's arrival everywhere; keep posting those flowers:)
Kiska

It looks more and more like the rain is done for the year.

Van Nuys, California (Airport)
Updated: 12:51 PM PDT on March 24, 2008
82 °F / 28 °C
Clear
Humidity: 13%
Dew Point: 26 °F / -3 °C
Wind: 7 mph / 11 km/h / 3.1 m/s from the SSE


"Best Bet"

Sugar, hope you get over your laryngitis quickly. I hate having things like that!

Kelli, more neat architect! Your camera takes amazing pictures! Is that a sink hole in front of the colunms?

Marsue, I love grape hyacinths!

Pepper, glad you aren't flooded out. Most of our cricks and rivers have gone down.

Sharon, we're windy today like you. Love the picture, it's really different!

Kiska, hoping spring finds you soon!!!

45* with a stiff south breeze. It's not pleasant out.

Thanks, Billy. A lot of the time I'm not all that happy with my camera but once in a while I get a good shot. I think that is an excavation pit in front of the columns.

This message was edited Mar 24, 2008 2:53 PM

Kelli: Beautiful iris!
Billy: Hope things get more pleasant for you soon!
Kiska: Glad the eye is a bit better.
Sharon: The freeze watch is now a freeze warning. Depends on which weather service you check, but we should get down to between 32 and 35 with "patchy frost". Just came in from spreading a bit of laundry around the garden.
Deb

Humidity: 13% I put a full load of towels in the dryer. They should be done in half an hour.


lupines down by the street

This message was edited Mar 24, 2008 4:31 PM

Kiska – Glad to see you back! Wow – that’s a lot of snow - beautiful picture!
Kelli – Gorgeous Iris!
Deb - I'll be doing some "laundry" as well sigh....

60.8 °F / 15 °C
Partly Cloudy
Humidity: 19%
Dew Point: 18 °F / -8 °C
Wind: 6.0 mph / 9 km/hfrom the WNW
Wind Gust: 14.8 mph / 23 km/h
Pressure: 30.15 in / 1020.9 hPa (Rising)
Visibility: 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV: 2 out of 16
Clouds: Few 6000 ft / 1828 m
(Above Ground Level)
Elevation: 20 ft / 6 m

Tonight
Clear...colder. Low 38. Northwest winds decreasing to 5 to 10 mph in the evening...then becoming light inland overnight.

Supposed to be a record low tonight. Oh goody....

Sharon: No records here, ours just says "unseasonable cold". :) Still, it seems unfair to all those blooming flowers and little green sprouts. Good luck with your "laundry" - hope it does the trick!

Kelli: Lupines are such wonderful, exuberant plants. Wish I could grow them here.

Deb

20 degrees here this AM. 20 degrees below normal for this time of year here. BUT, we don't have flooding or plants so far advanced that they would be frozen. have to spread fertilizer over the daylily beds tomorrow. Then rest until the moon fades away. When the new moon comes into being, spring will start here in Pa.

Billy, your extra water came down here. LOL

Currently: 55°F Partly Cloudy
Currently: 12°C Partly Cloudy
Wind: South at 20 MPH
Humidity: 35%
Dewpoint: 28°F
Barometer: 29.98 inches
Wind: South at 32 KPH
Humidity: 35%
Dewpoint: -2°C
Barometer: 1015 millibars
Sunrise: 7:15 am
Sunset: 7:35 pm