I do not understand the weather here. From the venerable National Weather Service:
Friday: A chance of rain between 10am and 4pm, then snow likely, possibly mixed with rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 61. Very windy, with a south wind 20 to 25 mph increasing to between 35 and 40 mph. Winds could gust as high as 55 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Do you see what I see?
Friday: A chance of rain between 10am and 4pm, then snow likely, possibly mixed with rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 61.
So. The low on Thursday night will be 38 (above freezing, for my metric friends). Then Friday, after 10 am, it will snow and/or rain, and it will get up to 61 (which is sleeveless-vest weather, even if you're a thin-blooded Southerner). How can it snow when it's above freezing and headed up to 61?
Who knows. I should try to ride before 10am, I suppose, before the driving slush knocks me off my horse and I die of hypothermia in tee-shirt weather.
Weird - wonder what will actually happen!
ReplyDeleteI give up with what I have dubbed the Big Fat Lying Weatherman. No particular "man" in mind, just no matter what you read, see or hear about the weather, it never comes to fruition. So anymore I never change plans based on what is forecasted but what is coming out of the sky (or not) the moment I am scheduled to walk out the door! LOL! Snow & 61? Now that's interesting!
ReplyDeleteAh my dear, welcome to the joy of N. NV winters. What that means is it will be windy as all hell but still semi-warm most of the day. The local news is saying gusts of near 60 mph by noonish. Then, after 4pm (when the sun is behind the mountains), its going to cool off really quickly and will probably rain/snow overnight.
ReplyDeleteAhh, that makes more sense, C!
ReplyDeleteI like the NWS because it makes the weather sound so much more exciting. Weather.com or Weather Underground never give you Breaking News Alerts on Wind Advisories 50 miles away. ;)
I'm afraid I've gotcha all beat: the local "celebrity weather guy" published a book about forecasting weather in the Swamplands...
ReplyDeletethe title?
_Somewhere I Was Right_
I think that sums it up nicely, for our region. I don't envy y'all the sn*w, though.