Weather change

01/12/12, 9:30 am, facing northwest

Yesterday's rain and low clouds gave way to this broken pattern of loose altocumulus blowing northeast with high cirrus above them. These clouds are the back of the rain that covered Central Virginia all day yesterday. Today's forecast of partly sunny and warm (60 degrees F) is the warm before the cold. Tonight will see a cold front move in from the west carrying with it a brief shower and a lows in the low 30's.


These soft, diaphanous layers covered the sky in all direction this morning, Thursday, January 12th, at about 9:30 am. Two hours later, all the cumulus clouds had blown away and just the high wispy cirrus remained. Even later in the day, it was all huge puffy cumulus clouds shadowed with violet.