It’s on your car and in your eyes and nose. Pollen is everywhere.
The early season heat wave has coincided with the flowering of numerous types of trees in the region to produce very high pollen count readings.
Trees ….. 2223 very high
Grass ….. 20 moderate
Weeds … 3 low
Total ….. 2256 very high
Rain [...]
A summerlike heat wave of sorts is in progress but no temperature records have fallen yet. The list below shows the record highs for the given days followed by the actual/forecast high temperature.
Friday 93(1960) .. 72
Saturday 94(1960) .. 90
Sunday 92(1990) .. 91
Monday 92(1994) .. 91(forecast)
Tuesday 90(1957) .. 86(forecast)
The typical high temperature for this time of [...]
A summer weather pattern has set up over the eastern U.S. The result, warm temperatures.
Saturday’s high of 90 was short of the record 94. The Sunday record high temperature is 92 and is a bit more vulnerable to being tied or broken.
The “heat wave” will continue through Tuesday. Unsettle weather moves in Wednesday and will [...]
Tuesday turned out to be a fairly nice day … until late afternoon when scattered showers and thunderstorms broke out. The set up is similar today.
The morning visible satellite image above and the surface map depiction below shows that a broad low pressure area continues to spin over the Great Lakes and Northeastern U.S.
Once again [...]
As of 5:00pm Monday, Here is how the numbers stacked up at BWI_Marshall Airport.
For a broader look at rain totals, the image below is a “snapshot” of the National Weather Service Radar at Sterling, Virginia. It is set to display the estimated storm precipitation total.
Much of the area west of I-95 received around an inch [...]
A slowly advancing storm system gave the area some great weekend weather but the start of the work week will be very wet.
The storm center will be spinning between the Ohio Valley and the Great Lakes for the next two or three days.
The cold front associated with the low pressure center will be moving into [...]
The sun is out and the area should stay dry for a couple of days.
The updated rain numbers at BWI-Marshall
Monday … 0.11 inches
Tuesday … 0.21 inches
Wednesday … 1.14 inches
April … 4.11 (2.61 inches above the seasonal average)
2009 … 9.17 inches (2.75 inches below the seasonal average)
The gap is slowly closing for the longer term dry [...]
Update … 10:45pm April 15, 2009
As of 5:00pm Wednesday, .99 inches of rain was measured at BWI-Marshall since midnight, bringing the April rain total to 3.96 inches, 2.46 inches above the seasonal average for the month. The 2009 precipitation remains below the average to date by 2.9 inches. Wednesday’s final precipitation total will not be [...]
Tuesday morning (4/14/09) I had the opportunity to talk weather with a great group of 5th & 6th grade students from the Jemicy School of Owings Mills. They had a lot of interesting questions and are fascinated by the technology we use today.
John Collins
The latest round of April showers will be pulling out of the area Saturday afternoon. Rainfall totals have been in the .5 to 1.5 inch range around Baltimore based on National Weather Service radar estimates.
The green shades north and east of Baltimore are the areas that received the most significant rainfall.
A couple of days of chilly, dry [...]
