WEATHER
Temperatures climbed above 80° yesterday, and we’ll make it even farther into the 80s today!
We’ll see more of a mix of clouds and sun compared to yesterday, but just a very slight shower chance, mostly north of the Triangle:
Pretty much a copy-and-paste forecast for tomorrow, both in terms of rain chances and temperatures:
The next good chance of rain heads our way on Friday. The European forecast model’s simulation from 8:00am through midnight Friday shows that rain chances moving through pretty quickly:Severe weather is never impossible this time of year, but it’s not a big concern right now. The Storm Prediction Center’s forecast model shows the best chance of even borderline severe ingredients staying off to our east Friday afternoon:And the SPC hasn’t outlined any severe threat for our area, just “general thunderstorms”:
The rain will be out of the way for Saturday, and the weekend is looking good overall!Back to that “can’t completely rule it out” chance of a shower Sunday and early next week, but nothing you need to plan around. Temperatures will be warmer than normal as we finish off April and head into the first several days of May…
LINKS
- This is either a great idea, or a disaster in waiting: NOAA will make the code for its GFS model open-source and available to anyone, with the goal of improving the American forecast model.
- A conveyor belt of Sahara Desert sand is sweeping dust to Europe and the Arctic Circle.
- It’s not even May, and there have already been 3 hot-car deaths in the U.S. this year.
- Lightning often does strike twice — new research shows the reason why a lightning channel is “reused”.
- Greenland’s ice sheet is melting faster than we thought and shows no signs of stopping.
- Hurricane Maria dropped more rain on Puerto Rico than any storm to hit the island since 1956, a feat due mostly to the effects of human-caused climate warming.
- When the U.S. government isn’t doing much to mitigate climate change, do your personal choices even matter? Here’s how climate scientists are — and aren’t — changing their lives.
- Artificial Intelligence and supercomputing are rapidly shifting the way disaster planners, regulators and insurers gauge climate hazards.
- Researchers have used machine learning and supercomputers to detect 1.81 million imperceptible earthquakes hiding in the seismological records of southern California.
- The countdown has begun to the next total solar eclipse.
- Scientists have found the galaxy’s “missing” exoplanets.
- Archaeologists have unearthed more evidence that when a civilization drinks together, it stays together.
