Good Wednesday all-
A FREEZE WARNING is up for the immediate shoreline, where the growing season has begun
Today is going to be quite chilly...well, at least it will be warmer than yesterday with highs in the mid to upper 40s ahead of an arctic front that moves through tomorrow with pouring rain- I suspect that tomorrow is going to be a total washout- and I expect the Yankees to pay the price with a rainout. Yes, it's going to be ridiculously cold again this weekend, as we stay almost twenty degrees below average with snow flurries around on Saturday...and a potential light snow event for Sunday. These don't like big deals, but enough potentially to snarl up the roads on Sunday with an inch or two. Whether that happens or not, the majority of next week looks to again be way below average, but thankfully a warming trend may FINALLY begin by the following weekend...but that's a long way off!
Today in weather history- April 6, 1936- An incredibly bizarre event as two large tornadoes cross over the same place at the same time, causing a merger right over a factory, killing 70 people in it...and 133 others, making it one of the deadliest tornadoes in US history. Tornadoes before 1960 or so were far more deadly due to the lack of accurate predictions of them. Even though today the average tornado lead time is a little over ten minutes...that at least provides some time. In fact, only one tornado (the Joplin, MO tornado of 2011) has killed more than 100 people since 1947, a huge testament to the improved forecasting ability of these storms that by their nature are hugely unpredictable
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