Premium Blogroll

Forecast Discussions

Small asteroid, discovered days ago, will pass Earth Sunday

Talk about a close call. An asteroid, designated 2014RC, was discovered just 5 days ago by the Catalina Sky Survey in Tuscan, Arizona. The results were reported to the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachussets. The discovery came with only a slight bit of alarm, as the orbital elements quickly revealed that the small asteroid […]

PM Update: Pleasant evening, plus other links

As we discussed earlier this morning, today was a much more pleasant and less-humid day when compared with the few before it. Highs in the lower 80’s felt comfortable with lower dew points and resultant humidity values. Tonight will feature much of the same. Fair-weather clouds from throughout the day will fade and mostly clear […]

Humidity drops midweek, but only briefly

The warmest day of the year occurred in early September, yesterday in fact, as the high in New York City’s Central Park reached 92 degrees. More than the date of the temperature, the actual temperature of 92 degrees being the warmest of the season may be even more shocking. Despite ending around average temperatures for […]

Local Observations


Fronts

Height Change