Liverpool,Nova Scotia - Damp now,great weekend on the way

1 April 2010

Conditions in Liverpool,NS at 7:24:32 AM : 9.8°C | Overcast  w/ drizzle | Wind: NNE 6 km/h

 (Normals: Max: 6°C Min: -2°C)

      The mild weather is continuing here and I think we can safely say that winter is over.Yesterday was warm with temps near +14°C and fairly dry until late in the day.Some fog and a few showers moved into the area in the evening,temps were in the +10°C range for the overnight hours.

This morning it is damp with some drizzle and fog.It looks like we will have to endure this for today and tomorrow but record setting highs and sunny weather is expected for the Easter weekend.

• The 3 day forecast for our area issued by Environment Canada:

Today -- Periods of drizzle. Fog patches. Wind northeast 20 km/h. High 12 except 6 along parts of the coast. 

Tonight -- Periods of drizzle and fog. Low plus 5. 

Friday -- Cloudy. Fog patches in the morning. High 6 except 12 inland.

Saturday -- Sunny. Low plus 5. High 17 except 8 along the coast.

 

• Today’s Weather Trivia:

1 April 1967: In nasty weather, a bush pilot landed his aircraft on a frozen lake 360 km from Yellowknife, NT. He huddled inside the plane for 58 days at below -50°C temperatures, only leaving it to stamp out SOS in the snow. He would lose 3 toes on his right foot and 2 on his left to amputation. News of his rescue was considered a sick April Fool's joke, as he had been given up for dead after 15 days. – Excerpt from 'The Canadian Weather Trivia Calendar' by David Phillips. © Environment Canada

• Sky Events Tonight:

ISS: No visible views expected.

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Cor Caroli, the brightest star in Canes Venatici, is in the east as darkness falls, not far from the Big Dipper. The star's name means "the heart of Charles." Edmund Halley, the British astronomer royal, named it in honor of King Charles II.

-Al C