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Topic Author: Chris Bailey
Posted: 3:54 AM Jul 5, 2009
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Good Sunday to one and all. Our 4th of July holiday weekend is winding down and the weather has not been what many people wanted. Rain fell across the tri state Saturday making for a cool and damp Independence Day. Soggy fireworks aren't much fun!

But it is time to start looking ahead and we do that with the headlines...

1. Today will see showers on and off across the region. The greatest threat will be across the east and south. Here is radar for your Sunday tracking needs..





2. Temps will be cool yet again with everyone staying in the 70s. I say everyone staying in the 70s.... but I should clarify that some spots may not even hit 70 because of clouds and showers. The best chance will be in the east.

3. Most thermometers still have not hit 80 degrees this month and that is something that should make you go WOW!!! Here we are on the 5th day of the warmest month of the year and we can't get out of the 70s. Today will make it 6 (last day of june) in a row for temps below 80 for most areas. This marks the coolest start to July since 1976.

4. If you are playing along at home.... 1976 was also a year where we had 90s in April and was transitioning from La Nina to El Nino. The winter that followed was legendary. Just sayin'!

5. Back to reality now. Temps early in the new week will actually crack 80 degrees!! Monday and Tuesday look pretty good right now with sunshine, temps in the low 80s and fairly low humidity levels.

6. The heat ridge in the west will TRY to nose in here for a few days by the end of the week into next weekend. This could send our temps toward 90 with an increase in humidity levels that can lead to some scattered storms.

7. Breaking News... the heat won't hold! That same heat ridge will head back to the west as a trough digs in across the eastern US. This will likely bring our temps back toward normal or below and should take us back toward a stormy pattern.

I will have a more expansive post later tonight so make sure you check back in. Have a great Sunday and take care.

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Posted by: Jane I was newly wed and we had just set up housekeeping in Wheeling WV in 1976. The Blizzard occurred in Jan. '77, but - that whole winter was extreme. The Ohio River froze. Roofs collapsed. Pipes burst. Daily temps were frigid, & we couldn't heat houses adequately. Travel and shipping were disrupted for a long time followed by Big time river flooding in the spring. It's not fun. Nevertheless, I'm old enough to remember some serious winters in the 1960's, too. This stuff comes around every 10 years or so, anyway, so just get ready.

Posted by: BR in Bville OK, let's get this late 70's winter thing straight. I started 9th grade in 1976 at a Huntington school and remember the weather fairly well. I'm not sure what your "records" show but I remember it started in earnest AFTER the New Year, so it was really 1977; so if anything "LD", it was actually the blizzard of 1977. The thing about it (besides being out of school here in Cabell Co. for essentially an entire month) was the repetitive nature of the storms. Sure, we had an initial blast of many inches, but it seemed like it would snow every other - or third day, another 4"-6" or 8" inches. That was the kicker, it never really began to melt!! On our road there was a blanket of ice (from the cycle of snows, then salt treatments, that only compacted the stuff) of over a FOOT - I distinctly remember my Dad measuring a chuck we finallt broke off. As I mentioned - I doubt we got more than 3 to 5 days of school in the entire month of January. Of course, we also got several storms in Feb.

Posted by: jay yes a agree with LD a blizzard would be awsome I have 3 grandchildren it would be great to be outside with them and be a kid again!!!!

Posted by: Anonymous LORD don't let it rain!!! We have some games in Ashland at Central Park and we need the rain to STOP!!! LOL

Posted by: LD I have heard so many stories about the 76 blizzard---I LOVE snow and winter, we are overdue a monumental snow in so. ohio--maybe this year I will finally get "the BIG one"!!! Fingers crossed;)

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