As we begin our seasonal transition to warmer weather, several people have asked about when it’s safe to bring their boats out of winter hibernation. This is a tricky question as every boat and their cooling systems are different. Also, where the boat is kept (on/off water) can be another variable. I can’t answer those questions, but I can provide …
Weather instruments are the tools a meteorologist uses to sample the many different aspects of the atmosphere. Some instruments like thermometers and wind vanes are widely known, but there are others that are not. Most of our instruments date back to ancient Greece. The word “metron” means, “to measure” in Greek. That’s where we get the “meter” part of many …
January 2024 will go down as a month of big temperature swings, along with near record precipitation. After all the winter and warmth, January ended up close to what January is supposed to feel like. The month started off with fairly normal temperatures, then mother nature said it’s time for winter, with a series of days well below normal. The …
Welcome to February, the month where we start a slow warming process as we move into the Spring season, but also a month where we still can get big snowstorms. High temperature averages start in the middle 40s, but rise into the lower 50s by the end of the month. It’s a pleasure to join the Lake Anna Breeze™ team. …
Lake Anna’s first decent snowfall since the storm of Jan 2022. A pretty consistent range of 2-3” for much of the area. (Snowfall courtesy of CoCoRaHS – https://www.cocorahs.org/Maps/) This storm was due to what meteorologists called “overrunning”. This happens when a frontal boundary is stalled just south of an area, with cold air to the north and warm air south …
Yesterday’s rainfall event was another in a series that started in late November 2023. Most of the Lake Anna area has received 12-13” of rain in the past 6 weeks. El Nino is responsible for these systems and the rapid turnaround from severe drought to flooding in the Lake Anna Area. Another storm is expected to impact the area Friday …
The big storm for Tuesday is on track. Very warm for January with temperatures (Tuesday) rising from around 30 in the morning to around 60 during the evening. Rain developing around sunrise (there could be a brief period of freezing rain at the start, but it won’t last long) and continuing through the day. Heavy rainfall likely during the afternoon …
Photo courtesy of Aaron Burden. The big story for the year was the drought that developed late spring and worsened over the latter half of the summer into the fall. We are still on the edge of slight drought conditions, but that should disappear by mid-January. We had spurts of big rainfall amounts to dampen the drought in early summer. …
Now that we’ve settled into winter, taken our Christmas trees down … and officially started the countdown to Spring, it’s time to focus on something that many of us might try to avoid: preparing for severe power outages and getting “snowed in”. There isn’t one of us here in Virginia who doesn’t remember what they were doing on January 3rd, …
