Lumps of Coal for Christmas Holiday Travelers
With a week to go before the Christmas holiday, many people are planning to pile into their cars and head home to family over the next week. Unfortunately, it looks like the great weather we’ve been enjoying for the past few days is going to turn into rain (and in some areas, snow) just in time for holiday travel.
The action got started today, as the threat of mountain snow caused by an upper level low pressure system in the Rockies is affecting the mountains of Arizona and New Mexico. The storm moves east tomorrow, and brings the chance of a winter storm to portions of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, where it’s cold, and heavy rain and thunder to Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi, where it’s not.
Here in Georgia, we’ll begin to feel the effects on Wednesday, with high temperatures 15 degrees below what we’ve been seeing. By Thursday, when the peak travel period begins, the precipitation arrives, and is likely to bring an inch of rain to a band stretching from Louisiana to Massachusetts, and over two inches to a narrow band between New Orleans and Chattanooga.
Meanwhile, except for poor Portland, Oregon, not much rain is expected for the rest of the country after Thursday. If you’re traveling south and want to avoid the rain, leave on Thursday before the storm moves in. If you’re going north, leave on Saturday as the storm moves out. Friday looks to be just wet, although there’s a chance of rain throughout Georgia through Christmas day.
On the site maintenance side, I’ve taken some time during the pre-Christmas slowdown to install new icons for the current conditions and weather forecasts. I’ve also created another feature I’ve wanted to offer for a long time: the ability to provide current conditions and weather forecasts on other people’s sites. If you’ve got a website, you can pick your location, a background color or image, and the type of forecast you would like, and the appropriate code will automatically be generated for you to put on your web page.
So if you’re currently using a weather sticker from someone else on your site, or want to personalize your blog with local information, support a community resource by adding local weather to your website.
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