Peak Fall Colors

I've decided to dust off the good ol' fall foliage map and post it here on the blog. It's time to start planning those trips into the Blue Ridge!

Tracking Earthquakes

Although this has nothing to do with weather, I found it pretty interesting...

I stumbled across a pretty cool website today while looking for information about the earthquake in Indonesia. The USGS provides a map that plots all the earthquakes that have occurred over the past seven days for the entire globe!

Here's the link:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/

Crisp, Cool Morning In Parts Of Virginia

Clearing skies and light winds in a dry air mass allowed some parts of Virginia to dip into the 30's Thursday morning. The coldest temperatures were along I-81 in the higher elevations and valleys in western parts of the state. Here are some of the lows from this morning:

Staunton 35
Lynchburg 37
Charlottesville 41
Danville 45
Farmville 46
Fredericksburg 46
Newland 46
Locust Grove 48
Coatesville 48