A foggy Sunday start and another damp week ahead

Saturday night brought raucous storms which grazed the western sections of Mecklenburg county. The rain gauge at the Clarksville airport recorded 0.81" of rain while most other county gauges saw little or nothing. Here's the surface map at 8 p.m. side by side with a map of storm reports (both wind and hail):

Notice the stationary front parked across Virginia anchored by a low pressure center (red "L"), and then notice the storm reports which align fairly close to that boundary. The wind shear - change of wind with height - along that front contributed to the strength and persistence of yesterday's storms.

Meanwhile today - Sunday - began with foggy conditions and under cloudy skies. The overcast will continue until late this afternoon when sunshine should peek through. Temperatures will climb into the upper 70s before dropping to near 60 degrees overnight. Monday will look very similar, with fog to begin the day and sunshine during the afternoon with highs again reaching the upper 70s. The middle of the work week then looks damp as more moisture is pumped into the region.

And as noted in Friday's blogpost astronomical autumn begins at 8:43 a.m. today. That means the sun will rise due east and will set due west. It doesn't mean that Mecklenburg county will have exactly 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness. That situation - known as the equilux - will actually occur this coming Thursday, September 26th. Sunrise and sunset will occur 12 hours apart that day.

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