Light Fog Tuesday Morning

After Monday's rain, and continued snow melt, there is a good bit of moisture in the ground to produce morning fog today. Visibilities have been a little reduced in Central Virginia, but the fog is not widespread dense fog, as you can see by the snapshot from our Dominion Cam in Downtown Richmond this morning. Fog and cloud cover will gradually decrease through the day, becoming partly cloudy later this afternoon.

Stormy Pattern Headed This Way?

During the winter, we are always looking for long range trends. El Nino has impacted our weather significantly so far this winter. The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is another weather pattern that greatly affects the East Coast. Here are a couple links to read more about NAO:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_oscillation

http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/AO_NAO.htm

Basically, when NAO is negative, we will see an extended period of cold weather...something we have endured for most of this month. Latest data is suggesting that NAO will trend towards neutral, which means that it could get stormy for the first couple weeks of March (in like a lion?). We'll keep tracking it and keep you posted!

What A Day!

This was the first dry Saturday we have seen since January 23rd, I hope you enjoyed it! Here is a shot from our Skytracker camera in downtown Richmond during sunset...gorgeous!