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Holiday Travel Forecast
Good morning! Hope all you bloggers are doing well!
I am a little tired today, as we just got a PUPPY yesterday... and I am sure many of you know how that can be! Her name is Mags... she is 8 weeks old... a yellow lab. Soooo cute, we love her so much already! She is my very first dog... so I am a little nervous, but Gary is so good with them... I have a great mentor! :) I will post some pictures soon!
On to the Thanksgiving travel forecast... things look pretty quiet around the Central US both today and tomorrow. But things are not looking so nice for the Eastern part of the country... where travel will be messy. Here is the latest NAM forecast for Thursday morning:
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It's a major winter storm! Here is a look at some of the winter advisories/warnings as of this morning:
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If you are traveling in that region... Check flights ahead of time!
The only thing we will have to worry about HERE is slightly gusty winds today. Our winds will be in out of the west-northwest... and that is actually going to bring in some WARMER air for the afternoon. How is warmer air possible, with a NORTHwest wind? Well the airmass that is TO our northwest has been warmed by a downslope flow off the Rocky Mountains. A downsloping flow produces adiabatic warming, which means air warms at a certain rate as it sinks! What rate is that, you ask... oh just the dry ADIABATIC LAPSE RATE! It is a complicated thing to explain... but any ADIABATIC process deals with the changing temperature of a parcel of air due to the air rising or sinking.
Anyway, highs today should be in the mid to upper 60s, believe it or not!! How's that for the day before Thanksgiving! A cold front will then move through, bringing cooler air for the Turkey Holiday.
Gobble gobble!
Jamie
Posted by at November 23, 2005 10:55 AM
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Sure miss you on Channel 2 in Dayton. I see where you were married this fall in David's Church. We attend there and it is a real nice place. Hope things are well in K.C. with you and your beau.
PAUL:
I love getting notes from viewers back home... thank you so much for looking me up! :)
Yes, it was a beautiful fall day... the rain stopped and the skies cleared just in time for the wedding! We love David's church... and Becky is amazing. We will come back whenever we are in town... maybe we'll see you there sometime!
Jamie :)
Posted by: Paul Weglage at November 23, 2005 1:45 PM
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Jamie or Gary-
Any sign of a winter storm next week for us?
BRYAN:
The first storm looks like it will be rain right now (Sunday/Monday)... if it tracks to our south it *could* end up snow... but right now it looks like it will come in from the west.
The GFS is also advertising a second storm for mid-week... we'll have to watch that one!
But the bottom line is: we are in a period where things can change a great deal from day-to-day!
Jamie
Posted by: Bryan at November 23, 2005 2:09 PM
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