April 2011 Blog Posts (234)

Hi All. I have been checking my blogs and realize that I have never actually mentioned much about Quincy or where I live.

The Quincy area was first visited in 1621 and the settlement established in 1625. From then on the it became part of various other towns until 1792 when it was incorporated as a separate town named after Colonel John Quincy and was made a city in 1888. Quincy is the birthplace of former US Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, as well as statesman John…

Sunrise over Hingham Bay looking from our foreshore. Slight breeze from the northeast and a temperature of 53F. Went for an early morning bike ride which was OK until turning for home and had to push into a head wind of about 10 mph. Went to a Library Book Sale and did OK. The clouds filled in a bit more but with the…

My daffodils have finally opened.  They always seem to bloom later than everyone elses.  They were blooming in town a week ago.  Now I just hope that we don't get any heavy rain to ruin them.  Our morning is mostly cloudy with diffused sunlight.  Yesterday was beautiful once the morning clouds moved out.  I…

Temperature: 49

Average Wind: 7mph SE

Wind Chill:    46…

Friday was a cooler, drier, sunnier, and much calmer day than the past

few before it were. A repeat of it should be in order on Saturday,

with perhaps a few degrees tacked on the high temp, though Saturday

sunrise should see temps in the 40s. (We didn't quite make it into the 40s

on Friday morning like I thought we would.)  Sunday morning might…

Yes folks, that is the forecast Albuquerque is looking at right now.  Friday was a warm 81° with lots of sun and, unfortunately, lots of wind.  The city disappeared in a light brown fog of dust and debris between 2:00 and 7:00 PM. …

In contrast to yesterday's cloudy, stormy, windy and wet weather, today started off with blue sky and sunshine with a gentle breeze out of the northeast. At 7 o'clock the temperature was 59F with the dewpoint at 40F. The barometric pressure was 29.66 and just moved a couple of point either side all day. At 3 pm we…

A couple of stray turtles pausing for a brief rest.

Temperature: 36…

Thursday morning was still quite active with lines of showers/storms

that were spinning up small tornadoes at a few locations in the region

that kept the warning system active for most of the morning. Also

selected areas also had flood warnings out in addition. At my location

we had moderate showers/storms with not all that much rain- our…

My wife came home earlier and brought with her some images she grabbed from her iPhone 4 during the earlier funnel event. This is the aftermath of the storm, but the clouds are amazing nonetheless. Click on any image to make larger, for…

As I reported in a prior post, we were just seeing an amazing weather pattern set up along the Indiana/Kentucky line, even going back through to Arkansas with amazing rains.  We also had a Tornado EF-1 a few miles NE of my station, the storm came through during the middle of the night.

It flipped a trailer and did…

This is Hulk, a three-toed box turtle we have had for seven years.

This morning's low was colder than expected at 34° but it warmed…

As you can see here from WeatherBug media partner, KING5 in Seattle, Mount Vernon in Washington (state) has seen something truly once in a lifetime. A fully formed funnel cloud making an appearance here in the town I happen to live in. For those of you in the mid-west shaking your heads at the thought of something like this being…