Archive for March, 2009

THE RAINBOW CONNECTION

Monday, March 30th, 2009

We received some great pictures from our viewers of the rainbow that could be seen on Sunday.   Just a note, you can see the full-sized pictures by clicking on them!

The Storm Team’s Cheryl Scott snapped this picture with her BlackBerry in Franklin Center Sunday Evening.

Becky Wagner actually caught the end of the rainbow in Girard.  [...]

SUPER SUNRISE

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

A big “thank you” to Dan Tysiachney who snapped this great shot of the sun rising this morning.  The picture was taken near the I-79 – 6N interchange.  If you have any great Spring Pictures (gardens, sunrises, sunsets, etc.) send them to the Storm Team at weather@wsee.tv.
Ray Petelin,
WSEE Storm Team Meteorologist

LET THE GROWING BEGIN

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Now that we are into the first FULL WEEK of Spring, it is time to start looking for signs of life.  I did find one in my garden!  These are my daylilies sprouting from the dirt to catch some early Spring sunshine.  Expect more pictures as my plants come into bloom.
Ray Petelin,
WSEE Storm Team Meteorologist

SPRING, WHAT A WONDERFUL THING

Friday, March 20th, 2009

 
Happy Spring!!!  The Vernal Equinox took place today at 7:44 this morning.  Now we will continue our transition to much more pleasant weather (if you are not a snow or cold weather lover).
Since I get a lot of questions about the equinox, here are some links to past posts:
WHY IS THERE NOT EQUAL DAY AND [...]

COUNTDOWN UNTIL SPRING

Monday, March 9th, 2009

With the warmer weather last week, into the weekend, I heard many say, I can’t wait until Spring”!. Well, to help pass the time until it arrives, here is the countdown to the Vernal Equinox (the start of Spring). Officially it begins at 7:44am on March 20th.
Ray Petelin,
WSEE Storm Team Meteorologist

“SPRING FORWARD” THIS WEEKEND

Friday, March 6th, 2009

It is that time for the Storm Team to issue the friendly reminder that this is the weekend where we LOSE an hour of sleep, as we set our clocks ahead one hour at 2am Sunday morning.
If you were wondering about why we do this, here you can get a Wikipedia explanatiion by CLICKING HERE.
Ray [...]

“MARCH”ING TOWARD SPRING

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

March is one of those great transition months where we really start to see Spring spread across the region.  We can really see that when we look at the climatology of March in Erie.
The beginning of the month starts off whith an average temperature of 40 degrees, but the average jumps to 50 by the [...]