Wednesday early evening 5/7

I mentioned the Beaufort Wind Scale on my 5:00 weathercast and told everyone to check out the blog if you would like to see the entire scale. If this is your first time visiting.....welcome.

Sir Francis Beaufort...born on this date in 1774....developed this scale to tell how fast the wind is blowing.

Click on the chart to see the large version.
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  More brush fire problems in south Florida. A fire about 1 acre and growing has broken out in south Miami. A number of firefighters are battling this fire at this time.

There have been a number of fires throughout Florida the last few days.

Thunderstorms hit Denver this morning. A lightning strike ignited a gas line in the suburb of Littleton. Flames soared up to 20 feet high until the gas was shut down. There were a number of accidents for the morning rush hour.

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From Utah.... The only Utah resort still open for skiing has so much snow it might be able to keep running until summer. With 11 feet of snow on the ground, Snowbird said Wednesday it will stay open for skiing into June and possibly longer. Snowbird has even fired up one of the chair lifts it had closed for the season, while shutting down its signature 125-passenger tram for maintenance. Skiing was to have ended Memorial Day, but Snowbird President Bob Bonar says he'll keep the resort open as long conditions allow.

Comments

[Nick Barth]

John,

How could you miss this evening so badly? At 5pm you said it would be nice out until 9pm or so yet at 5:45 it was pouring!

Nick.....that rain really did speed up. Originally it was going at 25 mph then it jumped to about 40 mph forward motion. By 5:30 we moved the time up to 7:30 and by 6:00 we moved it up to before 7:00. The steady rain began downtown at 6:40....sorry about that....JB