West Rockville MD Weather

This week the East Coast is experiencing a “bomb cyclone”. This bombogenesis process is fascinating and the term is thrown out to the public and not explained well enough for the general masses to understand it. Live Science just put out a great article on it,  at the following link:  https://www.livescience.com/61327-bombogenesis.html?utm_source=notification  

From a twitter post by Mark Growth, this very interesting, well-written article by Simon Owens tells us all about how the Capital Weather Gang got their great weather blog started and posted through the Washington Post a few years back… Perhaps there are some interesting ideas for weather together to use or think about at least.  Simon Owens Tech and media journalist. Email me: simonowens@gmail.com Nov 28 https://blog.markgrowth.com/how-the-washington-post-built-the-nations-most-beloved-weather-blog-669abbe130c9   Here is a lot more information about the Capital Weather Gang’s…

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Really timely article in Live Science on pyrocumulus clouds, which occur in the vicinity of large wildfires as is happening in Southern California at this time, and also in volcanoes all over the world. Always been fascinated by these, especially when develop into pyrocumulonimbus clouds and vivid lightning. Featured image is from the Thomas Fire in the Santa Barbara area of California. Enjoy!  https://www.livescience.com/61167-what-are-pyrocumulus-clouds.html

Coming from Buffalo State College, in Buffalo NY and surrounding suburbs – You can listen to the Weather Buff online show – it is the weekly one hour show on WBNY, dedicated to all things weather between the hours of 12 Noon and 1 PM Eastern Time on Mondays. Hosted by Jack Kanack , also known as “The Weather Medic – The Doctor of Weather” and co-hosted by JJ Ptak, studying meteorology at Buffalo State College in Buffalo NY. Jack…

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In honor of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, I wanted to revisit an awesome East Coast Storm when I was a wee-little one. Fred Pickhardt of Ocean Weather Services in Lutz FL grew up in NJ posted this great article on the historic details on this incredible superstorm back in November 1950. He was 2 years old, I was 4 months old. Heard so many unbelievable stories about this storm, many are best described on the weather maps and charts at…

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   OCTOBER 2017 – CLIMATE SUMMARY – ROCKVILLE 2.8 WNW MARYLAND October 2017 was warm and relatively dry. Warm minimum temperatures once again dominated the trends most of the month. Once again, as has been the pattern over the past several years, our first freeze of the season was not recorded in October. Fall foliage changes once again were just really getting in gear at the end of October and peak color was not reached till about November 10. Colder air at the end of…

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