Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Keeping an eye on Thursday night's weather

"Oh, Baby, where'd you get those eyes???!!!"

The window to the Soul they are, eyes. You can see and tell so much by looking into them...or, sadly, not see much of anything. But they speak the truth if carefully observed. And the eye of this South Dakota burro is saying, "Hey, FluteBoy, where's my apple???"

My eye is on the incoming cold front which will end our warm days for a spell starting Friday. The best rain chances for the Triad look to be Thursday night from 8p through 5am Friday, though showers are possible before and after that period. Friday should be downright cloudy and very cool as the front, once through our neck of the woods, hangs at the coast...or more specifically, the low pressure center hangs up and does a backwards dipsy-doodle counterclockwise circle back into the Outer Banks. That means a solid inflow of colder air from the north/northeast, along with moisture thrown in from the Atlantic, which spells c-l-o-u-d-s and the occasional spritzle.

Like my official scientific terms? Okay, okay, I could say the low center will 'retrograde' once it clears the NC coast, but a 'dipsy-doodle backwards flip' works for me. And for years I've put sprinkles and drizzle together to get 'spritzles'. As the ol' bumper sticker says, "Why be normal?"


Bottom line: another kiss of fall is on its way, with sunny cool skies on tap for the weekend. And why did Humpty Dumpty have a great fall? He didn't. He was pushed. Details at 11...

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