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NWS: Moderate El Nino winters can be Md.'s snowiest

For those readers hoping for a snowy winter this year after a series of disappointments, there is hopeful news Monday morning out of the National Weather Service's Sterling forecast office. (Likewise, for those who loathe the ice and slush, dangers and ...

From FRANK ROYLANCE, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: National Weather Service

Saturday is your best bet for the weekend

Saturday, however, looks great for a hike or a roll up the bike trail. High pressure centered in the Ohio Valley is building across the region today (Friday) and will bring us more sunshine Saturday, with a high in the upper 50s. The relatively mild ...

From FRANK ROYLANCE, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  20 Nov 2009

An account of deadly 1926 La Plata tornado

Steve Zubrick, science and operations officer at the National Weather Service in Sterling, Va., has sent me a link to an historic National Weather Service report on the Nov. 9, 1926 tornado that swept across parts of Charles and Prince George's ...

From FRANK ROYLANCE, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: National Weather Service

More rain due; east wind brings high water

Behind the cold front we'll get some clearing for nice weather Friday and Saturday. But then the next coastal storm will be firing up off the Carolinas, with another bout of rain due late Sunday into Monday. No wintry precip expected around the ...

From FRANK ROYLANCE, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  18 Nov 2009

Western "fireball" may have been small asteroid

A brilliant meteor that startled residents across parts of Idaho and northern Utah early Wednesday morning may have been a small asteroid, scientists say. It exploded in the atmosphere with a force equal to a thousand tons of TNT. "Witnesses in ...

From FRANK ROYLANCE, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: TNT

"Vomitoxin" disaster declared in 10 Md. counties

A fungal grain infestation caused by last spring's wet weather in Maryland was bad enough to earn a federal agricultural disaster declaration for 10 Maryland counties. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Thomas J. Vilsack approved the state's request for aid in ...

From FRANK ROYLANCE, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Martin O'Malley,  North Dakota State University,  US Food and Drug Administration,  United Stated Department of Agriculture

Tom Turkey on the road to ... dinner

I was driving to work on I-83 Monday when I pulled alongside this flatbed truck from Locust Point Farm in Elkton, loaded with cages holding dozens of turkeys. It wasn't hard to imagine where they were headed.  Fortunately for these guys, we celebrated ...

From FRANK ROYLANCE, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  17 Nov 2009

Last week's rain totals mapped

The map makes clear just how much more seriously affected counties to our south were, and especially those in southeast Virginia (left). Rain totals there ran above 10 inches in some places. Out in far-western Maryland, meanwhile, there was little or ...

From FRANK ROYLANCE, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  17 Nov 2009

Antarctic ozone hole shrinks, a little

The ozone "hole" over Antartica reached its southern springtime peak in September, according to researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Measurements there indicated the size of the gap in the layer of the planet's ...

From FRANK ROYLANCE, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Forecast hopeful for Leonid meteor shower tonight

With the moon entering its "new" phase tonight, the skies should be ideally dark for viewing Tuesday morning's peak of the annual Leonid meteor shower. And the weather forecast, while not ideal, calls for partly to mostly clear skies. With cooler air ...

From FRANK ROYLANCE, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  16 Nov 2009

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