Good Saturday to one and all. We have another weak system dropping in today as we get set for a REALLY nice Mother’s Day on Sunday. Beyond that, let’s storm it up once again for our little part of the world.
Temps today range from the upper 60s to low 70s with a mix of sun and clouds. Winds are gusty as a weak system moves in from the north, bringing the threat for a few showers and storms into town. Few being the key word here as this stuff doesn’t impact many people.
Here are your radars to find whatever shows up out there…
Showers and storms get set to kick it up a notch or two late Monday and this will take us through Tuesday and early Wednesday…
More showers and storms will then arrive for the end of the week into next weekend…
All of this is part of a very wet pattern we have been dealing with across our region and it looks to continue. The control run of the EURO weeklies shows much above normal rains rolling tall the way through much of June…
The latest CFS says that kicks off what’s likely to be a wetter than normal summer around here and for much of the country…
Typically, areas seeing much above normal summer rainfall tend to have below normal summer temps. The CFS sees this as well…
Have a great Saturday and take care.
The long range model forecast will be wrong.
Hope everyone had a chance to view last night’s spectacular aurora, which was visible as far south as the Mississippi Gulf coast! Here’s a photo of the Sun taken yesterday, and the gigantic sunspot group which was responsible for the aurora is in the lower right quadrant. As the scale indicates, that group is nearly the size of Jupiter!!
https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/sunspots/
Unfortunately for me I had a lot of cloud cover over me during the max viewing.
My phone camera did pick up some purple haze in the sky.
Thanks for sharing Joe. Very interesting.
Yes Joe I really enjoyed it. Beautiful colors. They say we have a chance tonight to maybe see it again but I don’t know if that’s fact or just talk but it would be nice two nights in a row said best viewing time is 10pm to 200 am but I guess that’s according to cloud cover too here’s hoping.
Chris….. I’m amazed you didn’t mention the northern light show in this post…
I saw some images out of Frankfort. Very beautiful. Can’t see the sky to the north at my place because we are surrounded by trees.
Thanks Chris. A wetter than normal Summer UGH ! Possibly followed by a dry Autumn and another Snowless Winter thanks to La Nina. Oh well, enjoy the day everyone !
Summer won’t be that wet.
The CFS forecast last summer was decidedly accurate. We will see how it plays out this year.
I am sure Texas approves of it especially after last season, heat wave.
Hope your right Jeff.
Right on time ” Blackberry Winter. ” You also can call it ” Blueberry Winter. ” LOL….
I was wondering Schroeder which winter it was my mom and grandmother use to talk about it.
It’s not even cold…..
Usually Crystal the most talked about is the ” Dogwood Winter. “
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory – SOHO – is a site I use to check all things relating to the Sun. This event is the largest solar eruption in nearly 20 years, and one measure that Solar Physicists use to measure the scale of an event is the Solar Wind velocity. 99% of the time this value is 200 to 300 km/sec.
Since yesterday, it’s been over 800 Km/sec, which is a 220% increase!
https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/
Yeal I read that the eruption was 15x the size of the earth.
Did you see the photo shot off Dale Hollow last night? It was amazing.( Chris Twitter or X it can be seen)
I also saw an incredible video on top of the Alps in Switzerland.