Tuesday, January 19, 2010

A Foggy Start To The Day With Rain Possible Wednesday Evening...

Well, we had a little light fog pretty much through out the whole day yesterday and today we could have much of the same! With our Temperatures and Dew Point Temperatures being really close together there is a good possibility of seeing some thicker fog this morning. So heading out to work and school could be tricky! You will need to take it also and allow extra time as always!
Fog driving safety tips...
The best advice we can give to drivers confronted with thick fog is to get off the road as soon as possible. If you can't or won't pull off the road we offer the following advice:

Keep your minimum safety gap to three seconds in ideal conditions; with the decreased visibility fog causes, this interval should be increased substantially.

Slow down. Most fog-related traffic fatalities occur because someone was driving too fast and couldn't stop in time to avoid a collision.

Make sure that you can be seen. Turn on your fog lights, and use low beams. High beams direct light up into the fog making it difficult for you to see. Low beams direct light down onto the road and help other drivers to see you.

If you leave the road, be sure to pull off completely. Turn off your driving lights and turn on your flashers so others know you're there but won't think you are driving on the road.

Always use your defroster and windscreen wipers in foggy conditions to keep the windows clear.
Keep an eye on your speedometer and maintain a slow, constant speed.


Remember that other drivers have a limited sight distance and that fog can leave roadways slick. Signal early, and when you use your brakes, don't stomp on them.

Now for today other then the fog we should look pretty good. Right now I'm not seeing any rain until later on tomorrow evening / night. And this is why below.
As you can see in this image above we have been seeing this stationary front to our south. This stationary front as all stationary fronts do, is moving very slow across the area. This means that closer to Wednesday evening / night this rain you see to the south and east of Indiana will have a chance to move through. This image above is for Wednesday morning.

Quick Cast..................................

Today we will look for some mostly cloudy to partly cloudy skies after the foggy start to the day. We will see highs again in the upper 30s to low 40s possible with lows dropping tonight into the upper 20s. Winds will be really light between 3 and 5 mph.

Wednesday we will start out with mostly cloudy skies. However as we continue through out the day we will see more clouds try to move in. Along with rain that evening / night do to the stationary front to our south. Highs will be in the middle 30s with lows in the low 30s. Winds will be between 5 and 10 mph.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It's looking like the temperatures we are currently seeing will stick around into next week! Booooooooo :) lol as you can tell I would rather have the 20s back as our highs! Our average high for this time of year is around 31 to 33 degrees so really were not far from that. Which is pretty good I guess. However the average low for this time of year is around 16 to 17 degrees! And that we have been far from. As our lows the past few nights have been around 28 degrees. This is a good 11 degrees above average! So we need some work on our low temperatures. ;)

I have still been real busy with home improvement however I'm trying to make time for the blog. I have taken some pictures and I will try to post them here real soon. Also with temperatures being around 31 degrees at 3:00pm yesterday I was able to get outside and work out a little in my free time. Sure it was cold but we gotta stay in shape right? lol.

Stay safe bloggers. I'll blog at you again soon.

Thanks for reading!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the update Justin! The fog was really not as bad as it has been the last few mornings.

Still a gloomy though, I want sunshine!

Teri in Laf

Anonymous said...

Not sure where to post this but I wanted to ask if anyone has heard of National Clicks?

Can someone help me find it?

Overheard some co-workers talking about it all week but didn't have time to ask so I thought I would post it here to see if someone could help me out.

Seems to be getting alot of buzz right now.

Thanks