Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Any Aches and Pains Yesterday?

You've probably heard more than one person "up in age" say they can tell when storms are coming by the pain they feel in their knee. Yesterday was one of those days when all of us could sense something was going on in central Virginia. The pressure dropped to 29.20" of mercury, which is the lowest it has been since January 7th of 2009 when the pressure fell to 29.19". My wife told me she could feel it in her ears, and my son who is normally very happy, was crying from an apparent ear ache. The time was about 7 PM, when a strong storm moved through the Richmond area. Most of the time our surface pressure ranges from 29.50" to 30.50", with strong areas of high and low pressure resulting in readings on either side of that range.