Low Barometer- And a Beach Story- June 29,2009

Posted by Tim Kelley June 29, 2009 at 9:10 pm

Tonight we are tracking a slow moving 996 millibar Low near Burke Vermont.
Your barometer at home read around 29.4 to 29.6″, as low as it gets in June with no hurricane around.
This is the same energy that moved in Friday and spent the weekend.
Here is my beach story from Saturday June 27, 2009, maybe you can relate.
We arrived To Bright Blue Sky Duxbury Beach 10 AM.
Baby seed cumulus had already formed inland Plymouth County as seen in the 10 AM photo looking west.

Also at 10 AM, we could see cirrus outflow from another June
Nor’Easter that is forming near benchmark.

All that was expected, but the Meteorological Kick in The Pants, was
the Dense Fog that formed as Sea Breeze kicked in here at the Gurnet Beach Fun run.
Shown here just as it began to arrive around 11:30 AM.

By Noon Saturday June 27, 2009 , we had visibility of 200 yards with SE wind 15 knots (paper plates go
flying!), temp falls to 65 (from 75).
I am surrounded by 100 Beachgoer’s all knowing I am WxMan.. All asking
for an explanation of event. I new what was happening, but we did not forecast this cold fog today.
I just repeated my standard story.. “Weather is unpredictable”..”Predicting the future is impossible.”
~Edward Lorenz proved that, before he passed last year.. didn’t he?~
We can not get tomorrow’s weather right sometimes. Yet some people
claim to be able to get forecasts right decades ahead.. Think Cap & Tax of CO2 fiasco.

back to fun weather..
During afternoon we had sliver of Blue sky between, Nor’Easter coming
from SE, and the Hugely Severe Storm over Parrotheads in Mansfield and Foxborough, 3.6″ Rain
3:30 to 4:30 PM, this the day after our 5th Tornado of 2009, this one in Weathersfield CT.
Ice from the Sky in Summer! Sounds like Global Cooling to me.

This June is in the top 5 Coldest for Boston, if we beat June 1882, then June 1916 is the last time
our June was this cold. But for a few hours on Saturday, we did need our sunscreen

We continue to monitor a slow moving pool of cool aloft, under which slow moving downpours
may cause flooding here, into Thursday.
For Friday and Saturday, the feature will be weakening a bit right overhead, still though
there will be scattered storm capable of heavy rain, wind, and hail.
July fourth looks summery warm with sun & clouds, and a few spot Thunderstorms.