04.03.11
Posted in Weather News at 8:00 am by Rebekah
Lest some of us forget that it is not quite spring in all of the U.S.:
For those of you up north or in the mountains, I’m sorry.
This is what we’ve been enjoying down south lately (yesterday’s highs…today’s should be higher):
There is a slight risk of severe thunderstorms today, from eastern Oklahoma up through Illinois, but it doesn’t look like we’ll get anything even initiating down here, as the cap is too strong (i.e., temperatures are just too high, especially in the lower-levels of the atmosphere).
Still waiting to chase again!
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04.02.11
Posted in Weather News at 8:00 am by Rebekah
As a follow-up to yesterday’s drought monitor post, here’s a map showing the percent of normal U.S. precipitation from the past 30 days.
It’s a little grainy, but you can clearly see the well-below-normal precipitation over the south central and southwest U.S.!
From the NWS: http://water.weather.gov/precip/
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04.01.11
Posted in Weather News at 8:00 am by Rebekah
Here’s a look at this week’s drought monitor (click to enlarge).
With warm and windy conditions expected to return to Oklahoma and north Texas this weekend, we could be in for another round of fires.
Here’s a Norman National Weather Service graphic showing our fire danger for the next few days.
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03.31.11
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:00 am by Rebekah
Today marks the first day of the 2011 Major League Baseball season!
Today’s games include Atlanta at Washington, Detroit at the New York Yankees, Milwaukee at Cincinnati, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim at Kansas City, San Diego at St. Louis, and San Francisco at the Los Angeles Dodgers.
I predict the Mariners will once again come in last place in the American League West division, with the Rangers taking first place. I hope I’m wrong on both accounts, though. 🙂 I plan on going to see the Mariners play the Rangers in Arlington early next week.
At any rate, I expect the Mariners will be a bit more fun to watch this year, for when your team hits rock bottom (i.e., practically everyone but Ichiro has the worst offensive season of their career), you can only go up, right? The season will be marked with some sadness, though, as the Voice of the Mariners, Dave Niehaus, will no longer be calling the games.
Go Mariners!
Play ball!
NOW it is spring! 🙂
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03.30.11
Posted in Weather News at 8:00 am by Rebekah
A field of daffodils in Cornwall, England. From Wikipedia
According to the BBC and various other news sources, daffodils in western England, East Anglia, and Scotland are blooming too early. Growers are having a difficult time getting enough people to come and pick the flowers, thus leaving many of the daffodils to go to waste.
Following a cold winter in the United Kingdom, warm, wet weather has allowed the daffodils to peak long before Easter, the most popular time for daffodil purchases (along with Mother’s Day, which is in early April this year in the UK). Easter comes three weeks later this year than last year, and the daffodils are expected to be past their prime by then.
The UK grows over 25,000 varieties of daffodils, exporting many of them to countries such as Denmark, Germany, Holland, and Sweden. The UK produces half of the world’s daffodil bulbs and exports 10,000 tons of daffodil bulbs each year.
The UK Met Office is forecasting high temperatures across England today from about 10 to 13 °C (50 to 55 °F), tomorrow 12 to 17 °C (54 to 63 °F), Friday 12 to 18 °C (54 to 64 °F), and Saturday 13 to 20 °C (55 to 68 °F).
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