Watching the Weather

The weathermen were predicting the arrival of a snowstorm, due to arrive late in the afternoon on Sunday.

They were right. You could see it coming. This picture shows the 'toe' of the storm front, rolling in overtop of us.

The snow came in a few hours later. It's an interesting thing, watching the weather.

And, if you don't have a meterologist handy, you can figure a lot of out on your own. Backing winds (winds shifting in a counter-clockwise direction, such as southerly winds shifting southeast) generally indicate that bad weather is on its way. On the other hand, veering winds (winds shifting in a clockwise direction, such as southwesterly winds shifting west) generally indicate the ending of bad weather and good weather is on its way. This has to do with the way that the air rotates with approaching low pressure systems and retreating low pressure systems."