Sorry guys for not updating lately. A few days ago I had to head out to my aunt and uncles house to help him put in a new wood floor. Has anyone ever done that? lol If not then believe me when I say you usually hurt after your all done! ;) Anyway ever since then I have been sick. Went to the doctor yesterday and he said I have a common cold. First one in three and a half years. (Not bad) ;) Last night was the most sleep I have had in two days.
I'm trying to get better as fast as possible because I don't have time to be sick. So I will try to get an update to you all when I can.
Thank you for understanding.... Oh but on the plus side, Happy First Day Of Spring!
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
The Sun Is BACK! And I'm READY TO RUN!
Yes, after a LONGGGGGGGGGGGG Rainy cloudy GRAY Week we will FINALLY have some partly cloudy to sunny skies today and through out a good part of this week! YEAHHHHHHHH :D Oh my goodness how I hate rainy cloudy days lol ;) After a long winter I'm sooooo ready to just get outside and RUN! I love to run in the fresh air. And I'm looking real forward to running today. We will see temperatures near 60 degrees and blue skies. Maybe a few clouds but I can handle that. a day ago when I ran outside it was only 45 degrees and felt cold. But me being the kind of nut that love running so much I just put on the jacket and went for it lol :) And I was very thrilled that I was not the only runner out their lol :)So today will be the start of the nice weather again and also the start of near 60s again this week!
I would love to stay and talk more but I gotta get running! lol ;)
I'll check back soon.....
ENJOY!
Friday, March 12, 2010
Give These People Some R-E-S-P-E-C-T!!!
We have seen a good amounts of rain through out today and believe it or not we still have a little more on the way to start the weekend! Yes, Saturday we are talking about this low pressure system that has stuck with us for a while still hanging around. It's not looking like a wash out but still another wet day! Rainfall right now looking between a Tenth and maybe a quarter inch in areas. Sunday will also be a slight chance for a few hit and miss scattered showers before we really start to dry out to start the work week. Take a look at this nasty little low pressure system below.
Now, I got an e-mail this evening from my Dad that I knew I had to post! I want you all o read this and then at the end I hope you'll be happy with the weather we have here in Indiana. And also I hope you'll have a high amount of Respect for these people of North Dakota.
Take a look.....
Minot Daily News WEATHER BULLETIN
Up here in the Northern part of North Dakota we just recovered from a Historic event --- may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with a historic blizzard of up to 25" inches of snow and winds to 50 MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10's of thousands.
FYI: Obama did not come. FEMA did nothing. No one howled for the government. No one blamed the government. No one even uttered an expletive on TV. Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit. Our Mayor's did not blame Obama or anyone else. Our Governor did not blame Obama or anyone else either. CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX, or NBC did not visit - or even report on this category 5 snow storm.
Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards. No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House. No one looted. Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something. Nobody expected the government to do anything either. No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo Rivera. No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Brad Pitts, No Hollywood types to be found.
Nope, we just melted the snow for water. Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars. The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a penny. Local restaurants made food, and the police and fire departments delivered it to the snow bound families.. Families took in the stranded people - total strangers.
We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns. We put on an extra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or Die". We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes for 'sittin at home' checks . Even though a Category 5 blizzard of this scale is not usual, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.
The world does Not owe you a living!
Now, I got an e-mail this evening from my Dad that I knew I had to post! I want you all o read this and then at the end I hope you'll be happy with the weather we have here in Indiana. And also I hope you'll have a high amount of Respect for these people of North Dakota.
Take a look.....
Minot Daily News WEATHER BULLETIN
Up here in the Northern part of North Dakota we just recovered from a Historic event --- may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with a historic blizzard of up to 25" inches of snow and winds to 50 MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10's of thousands.
FYI: Obama did not come. FEMA did nothing. No one howled for the government. No one blamed the government. No one even uttered an expletive on TV. Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit. Our Mayor's did not blame Obama or anyone else. Our Governor did not blame Obama or anyone else either. CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX, or NBC did not visit - or even report on this category 5 snow storm.Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards. No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House. No one looted. Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something. Nobody expected the government to do anything either. No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo Rivera. No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Brad Pitts, No Hollywood types to be found.Nope, we just melted the snow for water. Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars. The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a penny. Local restaurants made food, and the police and fire departments delivered it to the snow bound families.. Families took in the stranded people - total strangers.We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns. We put on an extra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or Die". We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes for 'sittin at home' checks . Even though a Category 5 blizzard of this scale is not usual, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.The world does Not owe you a living!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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This is just some of the things that goes on that we never hear about! Maybe people will think twice before commenting about how bad Indiana weather is! ;) These people went out in over 25" Inches of snow by themselves and got the job done! Most people in Indiana complain about scooping 2" to 4" inches. Remember if you want something done, The only way to get it done is to do it! Talking about doesn't make it happen!
So count your blessings!
Storm Talk...
Well, bloggers we do have more rain and scattered thunderstorms in the forecast for the rest of today! Now I have been going through data all day and at this time it is looking like anything that could be severe will try and set up just to our south and east. However I'm not going to rule out around a 5% to 10% chance for a stray one to make it into the WLFI viewing area. But for right now I think we will just stick with scattered thunderstorms. And the chance for Scattered thunderstorms is around a 20% to 40% chance. However rainfall on the other hand "could" be heavy at times kinda like what we seen yesterday. Take a look at this Satellite Radar Image just taken below a few minutes ago below.
You see the big blob of rain and storms to our south? Well, this is what we have to look forward to this afternoon into the evening. The areas in blue are showing where the frequent lightning strikes have been the past half hour. You can see they are looking to set up just to the east of us as this system is moving north north east. Areas of KY, Extreme South IN, and OH, are the areas in the Slight risk for severe weather at this time.
Still with this being said I will continue to watch things like the current EHI, The current LI, The current Total Totals, And things on that order. If anything is to change I will be back to give you the update!
As for rainfall I think for today we will look for around a Tenth inch to a quarter inch with locally higher amounts in thunderstorms possible. And then between today and tomorrow between a quarter and a half inch with locally higher amounts in areas.
So stay weather ready as we always do here on JIWB and I'll check back if needed! ;)
Make today a great one!
You see the big blob of rain and storms to our south? Well, this is what we have to look forward to this afternoon into the evening. The areas in blue are showing where the frequent lightning strikes have been the past half hour. You can see they are looking to set up just to the east of us as this system is moving north north east. Areas of KY, Extreme South IN, and OH, are the areas in the Slight risk for severe weather at this time.Still with this being said I will continue to watch things like the current EHI, The current LI, The current Total Totals, And things on that order. If anything is to change I will be back to give you the update!
As for rainfall I think for today we will look for around a Tenth inch to a quarter inch with locally higher amounts in thunderstorms possible. And then between today and tomorrow between a quarter and a half inch with locally higher amounts in areas.
So stay weather ready as we always do here on JIWB and I'll check back if needed! ;)
Make today a great one!
Thursday, March 11, 2010
What Went Wrong?
We did wake up to some nice Spring thunder showers across the WLFI viewing area. However this was not the time I had forecasted for this system to move through! This system was moving much faster then what the weather models showed. Areas that should have picked up near a half inch only seen around a tenth inch. Take a look at this radar image taken early this morning below.
You can see the heavy bands of rain in this image. Sure the rain fell rather heavy at times however it didn't last long enough for the totals to really climb. As this rain continued to push off the our north east it started to break up and become lighter. We started pulling in a lot of dry air on the back side of this storm. And we are still pulling in dry air at this time.
Looking at some satellite images the clouds are even starting to break up a bit to our west! I'm even starting to see some blue skies myself. So does this mean I'm putting some sunshine in the forecast for today? I think so! We will still watch for some rain tonight and rain chances on Friday as well. But if anything this system moving much fasted then expected and then pulling in dry air has really cut back on our expected rainfall totals. You can't get every storm right I guess?!?! But will just work even harder and try better not to miss another one! lol ;) At least I can let you know why this system didn't go our way!
You can see the heavy bands of rain in this image. Sure the rain fell rather heavy at times however it didn't last long enough for the totals to really climb. As this rain continued to push off the our north east it started to break up and become lighter. We started pulling in a lot of dry air on the back side of this storm. And we are still pulling in dry air at this time.Looking at some satellite images the clouds are even starting to break up a bit to our west! I'm even starting to see some blue skies myself. So does this mean I'm putting some sunshine in the forecast for today? I think so! We will still watch for some rain tonight and rain chances on Friday as well. But if anything this system moving much fasted then expected and then pulling in dry air has really cut back on our expected rainfall totals. You can't get every storm right I guess?!?! But will just work even harder and try better not to miss another one! lol ;) At least I can let you know why this system didn't go our way! On a better note Brow, did snap some good pictures of this front making it's way into the Monticello, area around 8:30am EST. He seems to always have his camera with him when we need pictures the most! lol ;) Check them out below.
Thanks Brow! Keep the pictures coming... I'll check back soon.....
Thanks Brow! Keep the pictures coming... I'll check back soon.....
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