Weather Conditons for Sunday, March 13th 2011

It looks like a nice day outside, I haven't noticed any clouds this afternoon, the sun in shining and the snow is melting (yes!). The current temperature is 31 degrees with a WNW wind at 4 mph. The low for tonight is predicted to be 20 degrees.

Photo courtesy of The Weather Channel - http://www.weather.com/

If we take a look at the surface map (above) you can see a cold front moving in our direction. Normally I would say that this would cause the temperatures to decrease for tomorrow, but according to The Weather Channel, and Intellicast, the high for tomorrow is supposed to be 38 degrees, which is 7 degrees higher than it is today, so we may not see such a huge drop in temperature because of this cold front, unless it just occurs overnight.

As most people may know, a huge earthquake occurred in Japan Thursday night causing a tsunami, a whirlpool, and an incredibly large amount of damage.

 (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

There is a very interesting part of http://www.intellicast.com/ where you can see all the major earthquakes that have happened recently on a map. Here is the link o the map. http://www.intellicast.com/Local/WxMap.aspx

After opening the link, zoom all the way out so you can see the map of the whole world, and move the map so you can focus on the "Ring of Fire" area. Then at the top of the map under "Quick Picks" choose the icon for Earthquakes, the last one before the purple "Full Screen" icon. If you hover over the large circles, it will tell you exactly where the earthquakes were, and what their magnitude is. You will notice that Japan is still having a huge amount of aftershocks, and that there have also been some recent smaller earthquakes in parts of the U.S like California, Alaska, Texas, and Arkansas. There is also a link to this map in my "Links" section.