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Hey Gary,

Will you see if you can put the Letterman piece up on the web for us loyal fans? My wife and I got a kick out of that when we saw it last night! Keep up the good work.

Blake,

I will look for a link to the Letteman clip this week.

Gary

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Gary, any chance that someone could post the letterman clip with you and the fog? Very funny, I tried to tell it to my wife, but I couldn't do it justice.

Thanks!

Jon,

I am a few days behind, but I will try to get the clip on the blog.

Gary

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Will hurricane wilma effect the set up period of the winter pattern?

Stephen,

I don't think it will have any impact on the developing pattern.

Gary

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Hi Gary,
The forecast from last night and this morning seemed to point toward the rain not arriving until later in the afternoon, toward evening. Can you shed insight on why the first wave arrived sooner (around noon), and why this is perhaps difficult to predict in general?

Terry

P.S. My plans to mow the grass before the rain hit were thwarted with the surprising early arrival :)

Terry,

I am sorry about your mowing plans. It was becoming obvious that the threat of rain would arrive about 6 hours early. And, it did. There was a disturbance out ahead of the upper low that caused the initial band of showers. It is not rare for precipitation to break out a bit early when a storm is heading right towards you. Perhaps, I should have said it could start a few hours earlier.

Gary

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Why on earth has everyone started reporting the dew point on the current conditions in addition to the relative humidity? One is derived from the other and while the RH makes little sense to most people, the dew point makes even less sense. It reminds me of the days when the temperature was reported in both Celsius and Farenheit.

Andy,

This is not a bad analogy. I like using dewpoint because it is truly a measure of how much moisture is in the air. But, what does it mean to the average person? Probably not much at all. They likely don't even know what it means. But, occasionally it is a good way to describe the weather. So, we leave it on the screen.

Gary