Observations for Friday, March 18th, 2011

Well, it looks like my predictions of the warming trend sticking around were just a little off... At 1 pm, the temperature was 36 degrees, with winds blowing from the west/northwest at about 12 MPH.  At that time of the day, the sky was mostly overcast, with stratocumulus clouds looming.  I honestly thought that it might rain/snow at some point of the day due to the conditions at that time, but it actually cleared up.  Instead of clearing up and getting warmer, however, it seemed to get even more blustery and cold.  I would expect it to get warmer and warmer over the next week, but we'll see if I'm right this time... I only say this because it seems like we're getting a lot of warmer winds from the southern states and southeast.