IT'S A FRIDAY FREE-FOR-ALL
Written by: Brian Neudorff
What a week this has been if you follow the earth sciences? We've talked about Global Warming and climate change, earthquakes and even volcanoes. There was even a fireball reported across the Midwest Wednesday night. Because so much has happened this week I thought we would open up today's weather blog to all of you. What's on your mind? Do you want to continue a conversation from earlier this week? Maybe you have a question about the forecast.
All I ask is we keep it clean, we be respectful and we try to keep it related to the earth sciences. We are meteorologist so weather is our best topic to discus but we have basic knowledge in the other earth sciences (and if we don't know we will just Google it for you)
Probably an unfair question, but can you estimate what the percentage will be for thunder today and when?
ReplyDeleteI don't like to use percentages. I think it just ends up confusing people. Most of the showers will NOT be thunderstorms. They will be isolated and there is no one place more likely than another to hear a rumble of thunder. I've seen thunderstorms over Lake Ontario this morning (around 8:30a) and earlier this AM around Penn Yan when I came in.
ReplyDeleteI can tell you we don't have a risk for severe weather. The Storm Prediction Centers focus is south into Pennsylvania. -Brian
With it struggling to get out of the 40's this weekend, is there a risk of another frost or hard freeze for the area?
ReplyDeleteIts way colder out in Buffalo again today. Is that the lake breeze or did the cold front already go through there?
ReplyDeleteFront not through yet cause it is 68 in Jamestown. Not lake breeze but lake influenced. The winds are out of the SW so the air going over the airport is coming from Lake Erie. -Brian
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone have an update on the volcano? I wonder if the explosiveness of it has eased up....
ReplyDeleteThis came from Reuters earlier this AM - An Icelandic volcano is still spewing ash into the air in a massive plume that has disrupted air traffic across Europe and shows little sign of letting up, officials said on Friday.
ReplyDeleteOne expert said the eruption could abate in the coming days, but a government spokesman said ash would keep drifting into the skies of Europe. - Brian
I was watching CNN, and Chad Myers showed the infrared satellite of western Europe. The plume coming off Iceland looks a lot like what you see when a single, intense band of Lake Effect snow comes up the entire fetch of Erie and Ontario. It starts off very narrow and then fans out once it gets into the mainland of Europe. Long story short, provided that the satellite loop he showed was relatively recent, the plume is still going strong off Iceland.
ReplyDeleteI know that a lot of the SO2 is getting swallowed up, but I gotta believe that the mass quantities of sun blocking ash, once it pans out across a larger area, will have at least some minor effect on the climate. Even if it's a fraction of a degree. And especially if it keeps on pouring out of the volcano for days.
Are volcano experts able to predict when the volcano will let up, like meteorologists can predict when a lake effect snow band will lessen in intensity? Are there indicators like in weather, or is it much more of a guessing game compared to forecasting weather?
ReplyDeleteI'm going to assume that it's much harder for volcanologist to forecast what a volcano will do than it is for a meteorologist to forecast the weather.
ReplyDeleteWe have a lot more data available to us & history to go off of. But I am not a volcanologist so I can't really say for sure. -Brian
No there won't be enough clear skies for that. With cloud cover around acting as a blanket and insulation our overnight/morning lows will only get down to the mid to upper 30s. Some places in the higher elevations may reach the low 30s but not widespread.
ReplyDeleteBrian,
ReplyDeletewill we get some more sunshine before the day is through??
Get this....I just heard that IF airports remain closed through the weekend, the total loss to the airline industry will be ONE BILLION dollars!
ReplyDeleteJust what our economy doesn't need
Ouch. Imagine being the people forced to pay for night after night in a hotel, too. Good for the Hotel and restaurant industry, horrible for the consumer!
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