Tuesday March 12 2024 Forecast (7:30AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (MARCH 12-16)

The influence between low pressure in Atlantic Canada and high pressure to our west continues today with a gusty breeze from the northwest, but not nearly as strong as yesterday’s. We’ll also enjoy plenty of sun, and at the higher angle it continues to climb toward, and with slightly milder air in place, it will feel quite nice for mid March today after a chilly start. Enjoy! Weak low pressure destined for a track to our north drags a warm front toward the region Wednesday and through on Wednesday night and then a cold front will sag southward through the region during Thursday night. This system will bring cloudiness, but not any meaningful precipitation. The chance is so small, it’s not even worth mentioning in the detailed forecast. However, as that cold front settles just to our south, another wave of low pressure will come along on Friday, rippling the front back north and then back south as it passes by, and this system should bring a period or two of rain. Current timing suggests that it exits to our east and allows enough dry air to work in on Saturday for a dry day, although clouds may be stubborn that day, so leaning toward a cloudier forecast versus any real clearing.

TODAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 47-54. Wind NW 10-20 MPH, higher gusts.

TONIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 28-35. Diminishing NW wind.

WEDNESDAY: Sun followed by clouds. Highs 48-55, coolest coast. Wind variable up to 10 MPH becoming SE.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Lows 40-47. Wind SE up to 10 MPH shifting to SW.

THURSDAY: Partly sunny. Highs 55-62, coolest South Coast. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.

THURSDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Lows 42-49. Wind SW 5-15 MPH.

FRIDAY: Cloudy. Periods of rain, especially midday on. Temperatures steady 42-49, may even fall slowly during the afternoon. Wind N up to 10 MPH shifting to E.

FRIDAY NIGHT: Cloudy. Chance of rain in the evening. Lows 35-42. Wind E up to 10 MPH shifting to N.

SATURDAY: Mostly cloudy. Highs 42-49. Wind N up to 10 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (MARCH 17-21)

Another low pressure goes by the region – center likely to the north of here – on March 17 with breezy, slightly milder conditions and some rain showers. Shot of cooler air with gusty wind but dry weather expected for March 18 between low pressure moving away and high pressure approaching. Generally dry weather with high pressure in control for the balance of the period. Spring arrives with the vernal equinox at 11:06 p.m. EDT March 19.

DAYS 11-15 (MARCH 22-26)

A colder pattern with high pressure to the north and a series of low pressure areas passing nearby or just to the south, bringing the chance of unsettled weather which may include some frozen precipitation late month.

96 thoughts on “Tuesday March 12 2024 Forecast (7:30AM)”

  2. Goodcmorning and thank you TK.
    Beautiful day today. That sun is feeling warmer and warmer. I was out yesterday and the brief sun made it feel very comfortable yesterday, even with the wind.

  9. Darryl Strawberry suffered a heart attack. He’s recovering in hospital. Strawberry was a gifted athlete, but a man with many demons he fought throughout his career. I believe he could have been a hall-of-famer had he resisted the temptation of drugs. Easier said than done. Here’s a clip from the 1999 ALCS in which Strawberry hit the Pesky Pole. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcUWIt9Icz8&t=58s

    1. A very sad story for a very gifted player. I seem to remember his swing being compared to Ted’s.

  11. More on the 1988 Blizzard. JPD don’t know if you saw my posts to you last night. I ordered the book you posted and shared the book my granddaughter read which may have been one you read Also. JJ my granddaughter was excited you shared it’s anniversary

    Blizzard of 1888…, Apparently the spring was early. Everything was budding. Seems the thought was that winter was over. Walt Whitman wrote his poem called the first dandelion.

    https://youtu.be/VhTEL1O2D1w?si=QLvkMJQZKdegjlPv

  12. Vicki, Strawberry had a lightning-quick swing, in some ways similar to Jim Rice. Lots of wrist motion.

    2. I had to do some looking to see what I was remembering. Strawberry was often compared to Ted. Same type of lean lanky build. At one point they called him the black Ted Williams. I had the sense he didn’t like it.

      When you were with Ted, he talked baseball. And if he wasn’t talking baseball, he was talking pitching. I do not remember him mentioning strawberry. But I sure remember him talking about Jim Rice. I found this

      https://x.com/mlbvault/status/1491188593318113283?s=46&t=neG9xl79s_BtNQXSGBlqLQ

        1. That my friend was a HUGE typo or autocorrect. I sat hours in his room at the old somerset watching him tie flies. I have one in the safe deposit box still. His hands weee huge and those flies were so little. We went to the sportsman show every year to watch him.

          1. This newspaper blurb pops up in my FB feed each year around my younger brother’s birthday. A fun prank Ted pulled on my brother at the sportsman show. I remember him jumping on the bears back. It was more a plug for my mom running for SC but it always makes me smile.

            https://ibb.co/Fm3VPWh

                1. Ted’s playing days ended well before I was born, but I idolized him as a kid and still do to this day. Not only for his baseball career, but also for the time he served to his country while he was still a player. I had enormous respect of him for that. I wore #9 as a kid for whatever sport I played and also have had a thing with that number throughout my life. Lots of happy events in my life have correlated with that number :).

                2. Well I have happy tears. Thank you. How awesome that you chose the number 9 for your sports jerseys. And how special that you thought so highly of a man who was before your time. I’d love to hear the story of how.

                  He was quite a man. But perhaps even more for what he did off the field that no one will ever know. I’ve yet to read a book written about his life that actually captured him. He called at least weekly and would spend as much time talking with me if I answered as my mom and dad. Called me princess

    1. Thank you for Sharing the sad news for strawberry and for allowing me to take a trip down memory lane.

  18. I’m kind of ready to track the 10-12C 850 mb temps for temps near, to in the low 80s

    And keep an eye out for the 15-16C 850 mb temps for a chance at 90F.

    And for the pulses of 18-22C that occasionally visit for temps in the mid 90s to near 100F.

  19. Thanks TK! Will we ever have. A Fri-Sunday Period that is completely dry and sunny? I can not remember the last time that happened on South Coast

    1. I don’t know, somehow this got me thinking about Dewey Evans, the 2nd best right fielder I’ve ever seen (number 1 is Ichiro Suzuki). People forget that Dwight Evans was one of the best hitters (and most productive) in the 1980s. A late bloomer. Not a classic stance, but a unique one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-2QNQdP9tA

      Apologies for all the baseball info. I just love the sport.

      2. I liked Dwight Evans. Quite an arm on that dude!!
        And he was playing with 2 ill children afflicted with
        neurofibromatosis (both have since passed)

  21. FWI, both the 12Z GFS and GDPS both snow ZERO snow for SNE. GFS through 3/28 and GDPS through 3/22.

          1. Spring and summer aren’t my favorite seasons. They rank 3rd and 4th, respectively (though as a kid they were 2nd and 1st – mostly because I detested school). But I’ve kind of been in spring mode all winter. Resigned to it.

              1. I NEVER even had to break out the hand lotion as I usually do in the Winter as my hands really get chapped. NOT so this Winter!!

            2. While I enjoy the weather in each season, I think it’s ok to have favorites too. I have said a ton of times that my favorite season is september 22 to September 21. That would put my order the same as yours, Joshua, if I understood correctly.

  23. 53 here now.
    54 at the airport with a NW wind after a departing storm system.
    Yeah, that sounds normal.

    What will it be like with the upcoming SW flow????????

    I am truly worried about this Summer!

  24. It’s still a full winter for me to get through.

    Still dark before 5pm from early November thru late January.

    No greenery for months on end and it’s still chilly even when it’s above average.

    But I can totally understand for others this being a non existent winter.

    1. It has NEVER felt like Winter to me this year, not even on one of the rare colder days. It just didn’t. Call me weird, but that is what it was. 🙂

    1. Good attitude, TK.

      Wish I could say the same. Not that I have a bad attitude, but I experience periods of seasonal affective disorder in spring and summer. I manage fine. But at times it’s a struggle. Granted, it’s a first world problem.

    2. So half of winter first, then spring, then summer, then fall p, then the last half of wintwe. Sound good. 😉

  30. So, I learned about the power of water over beach sand when I was a toddler.

    Apparently, these people have not. You don’t build a wall out of sand to protect your property if you live a few feet from the ocean. Surprised that a storm washed the sand wall away? They shouldn’t be. It’s SAND. Next time, just put the $500,000 directly into the ocean, small bills please! People will be finding little gifts for months……………..

    https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/salisbury-beach-storm-destroys-sand-wall/?fbclid=IwAR2-b-b1sFjWlalWXau-8ChFXL7CRfuBTOXS1Y0p6lvqTZwmUsbIPGM-OaA

    Anyway, the laws prevent a “solid structure” from being built between the homes and the sea. Well, maybe if you tell the ocean to stop being the ocean it’ll listen and you won’t need to debate how to protect the houses you built ON IT. Honestly… what do you think is going to happen to sand in a storm? As I said, I learned as a toddler what waves do to structures made of loose sand. It’s called a sand castle fail. 😉

    2. I’ll see if I can find the debate in Charleston. But Humarock Does have an old sea wall. It used to be taller than Mac who was 6’1”. But now is maybe a few feet.

      At hum, if a house was raised, it could be insured. The house next to where we rented …sitting between the river and the ocean….was purchased and renovated for hundreds of thousands. It flooded the next winter. Oddly, the first house in the peninsula is not raised, sits on the river and one house back from the ocean and is fine. It remains a small beach cottage as opposed to the ridiculous McMansions

            1. Wasn’t so sure with the snowless, temperate climate down there. I don’t know why they bother either. They should save their money and plant a few citrus trees in the park instead!

      2. closer to looking like a grateful dead album cover than anything resembling snow around these parts.

    1. 41 deg max elevation about 7:41. Crescent moon & Jupiter to add to the sight. 🙂

        1. There was a period of several sections where you could see them a bit better, one by one. There are 11 in that closely packed string. Overall it was far less impressive than 24 hours prior. That one was bright!

    1. March 28, 1984 event wasn’t forecasted in advance either if I recall. Wasn’t there thundersnow as well?

      1. This event was actually on March 29 1984. It was pretty well forecast starting a couple days out.

    2. It was for 3/26 but that storm as depicted actually started on 3/25 and didn’t fully end until 3/28. Pretty entertaining run.

      Of course the 0z run was different, but still pretty chaotic in the long range with an active pattern featuring rain, snow and some potent storm systems.

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