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Outside My Window ~ 9.05.2011
Outside my window…are the waning hours of the 2011 Labor Day weekend. The last hurrah of summer…the official end of tourist season. The end. The beaches and the roads belong to the locals once again. It is currently 77°F with storms approaching. We have a forecast for thunderstorms this evening….scattered possibility for tomorrow. We are expecting some rain from Tropical Storm Lee, which I’m sure has been downgraded by this point and Katia is forecast to take a hard right into the Atlantic. It appears as if her greatest threat to our area will be rip currents and large swells….serious concerns in their own right of course. People who live in a coastal region know that when rip current warnings…
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Outside My Window ~ 8.29.11
I had actually completed this post last night however prior to publishing, I saved it as a draft…and all but this paragraph was gone afterward. 😐 Beyond frustrated because of what happened, I wasn’t up to recreating the entire post so I went to bed. I’m leaving the first paragraph as it was….and will begin it again today. Outside my window ~ 8.28.11…is the close to our first day with no worries over an approaching hurricane. It was a beautiful albeit hot day….blue skies, sunshine and plenty of wind left over. Our forecast high was 91°F and it was still a bit humid since the storm passed. There are leaves, branches and limbs everywhere but surprisingly the trees still look pretty full. The…
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Outside My Window ~ 8.14.11
Outside my window…is what appears to be a foggy afternoon. I say “appears” is because it is not fog but smoke from the Great Dismal Swamp fire in Suffolk, Virginia. The fire continues to burn despite our rain yesterday afternoon and evening. We will need quite a bit more rainfall to help this fire…some firefighters say it may take a tropical storm to put it out. The fire is not fully contained but currently the smoldering peat moss is creating the obvious problems. Peat moss causes the smoke and is near to impossible to put out. The fire is smoldering in approximately 6 feet of organic soil in some areas near the…
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Outside My Window ~ 7.31.11
Outside my window…is a warm, cloudy morning. Currently at 10:45 this morning, it feels like 88°F out although the actual temperature is 85°F. Not too bad outside actually….it is a bit muggy but then it is summer in Hampton Roads ~ muggy and humid is a given for this time of year. Our forecast high is 90°F and we do have a chance for thunderstorms today and this evening. I noticed on the weather channel this morning there is a rather large green, orange and red blob moving our way…could be our chance of storms perhaps? This has been one of the hottest summers I can recall in some time. {do we say that every year?} This…
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Outside My Window ~ 7.24.11
Outside my window…is a thunderstorm bringing wet, glorious rain and cooler temperatures. Key words there…cooler temperatures! You know it has been a hot one when I’m thinking 80°F at 10:15 at night is cool. We tied a record today with a high of 96°F….of course it felt like 112°F when you factored in the heat index. This past week has been beyond miserable…here and at many locations in the country. It probably wouldn’t have been so insanely hot if we had cooled down in the evening but on several evenings it was still above 90°F close to midnight. What is remarkable is how many states have had to post extreme heat warnings this past week. …
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Outside My Window ~ 7.17.11
Outside my window…is the sun setting on another Sunday. My how the weekends fly. We had a couple of beautiful days but I didn’t get outside too much. Right now it is 80°F with about 50% humidity…zero chance of rain this evening. Our high was about 86°F today….not too bad for mid July. We will be heating up to a high of 97°F by Thursday with a chance of thunderstorms for Wednesday and Thursday. I noticed when I checked the Weather Channel there is a tropical storm brewing in the Atlantic…I probably should pay closer to the weather this time of the year. It appears as if it will not be a…
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Outside My Window ~ 7.11.11
Outside my window…is a warm and relatively humid night. At 9:00 this evening we are currently at 85°F but it feels like 91°F. I just stepped outside to see if it was still that warm outside…it is. I suppose this is the head start to a high of 98°F forecast for tomorrow. I can’t get over the 90+ temperature days we have had so far this year. I think there are more than a few people that will agree that this has been a hot, miserable season thus far. I am glad…the blinding migraine that paid me a visit yesterday has decided to let up enough so I can almost function like a normal person again…
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Outside My Window ~ 7.3.11
Outside my window…is a very warm and partly cloudy Sunday afternoon. At around 12:15 today, we are at 85°F with humidity at 63% and little or no breeze. I was outside for a little while this morning and I can attest to the fact that it is muggy and warm. Our forecast high of 90°F and sunshine is making the tourists that traveled to our shores quite happy. Nothing ruins a beach vacation like cloudy and rainy weather. There is a good chance of thunderstorms this afternoon and evening that will either turn the entire place into a giant steam bath or cool us off a bit. I hope it is the latter. I am…
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Outside My Window ~ 6.26.11
Outside my window…is our first full weekend of summer. It is about 12:45 and we are currently at 82°F with partly cloudy skies. Humidity is relatively low for this area, only 53% right now. The chance for rain is also low at 20%, however there are quite a few clouds that have built up since I woke up this morning and I have seen some of the strongest storms occur when the percentage has been that low before. Sometimes I think the weather forecast is just a crap shoot and/or luck. The rest of the week looks like a clone of today, low 80’s with our greatest chances for rain on Monday and Tuesday. I…
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Outside My Window ~ 6.19.11
Outside my window…is a cloudy, humid morning. At 10:30 and we are at 75°F with 84% humidity and little to no wind at the moment. One word…humid. The forecast high is for a chance of thunderstorms and a high of 84°F. I was checking out the Weather Channel online a few minutes ago and it appears as if a large storm system is moving east towards us…I suppose our storms will come from a combination of that and our typical afternoon heating plus humidity that produces some storms. I’m not so fond of warm, humid weather but my tomato plants seem to love it…they are growing like weeds. I am glad…that school…