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Marine Weather and Tides Clinchco, VA Version 3.4

What's New / NOTES 10/6/2018 Colors of tide XTide graphs changed to emphasize that they were upgraded. See next note. Comments welcome. 10/4/2018 I have fixed XTide and updated the harmonic files. There were some name changes so you might have to click EDIT to find the new station name.

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Sunrise 7:06AM

Sunset 5:20PM

Thursday November 15, 2018 3:06 AM EST (08:06 UTC)

Moonrise 1:31PM

Moonset 12:00AM

Illumination 48%

NOTE: Some of the data on this page has not been verified and should be used with that in mind. It may and occasionally will, be wrong. The tide reports are by xtide and are NOT FOR NAVIGATION.

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7 Day Forecast for Marine Location Near Clinchco, VA

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Area Discussion for - Charleston WV

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Fxus61 krlx 150616 afdrlx area forecast discussion national weather service charleston wv 116 am est Thu nov 15 2018 Synopsis System crosses overnight through Thursday night with winter weather, including freezing rain, for parts of the area. High pressure builds to begin the weekend. Near term through today As of 115 am Thursday... forecast on track, pending a revisit of surface temperatures and extent of freezing rain over the lowlands overnight. As of 821 pm Wednesday... have made multiple changes to inherited forecast. Adjusted hourly temps downwards by several degrees for tonight, given current observations and latest guidance output. Still feel that temps will warm overnight across areas to the west of the mountains, but that warming will be rather slow to occur. Also increased wind speeds across the higher terrain for the overnight hours. Precip shield is beginning to move across NE ky and into portions of va, wv, and SE oh. However, there are still some rather significant dewpoint depression values in the lower levels of the atmosphere, so it will take a little bit of time for the precip to reach the ground once radar returns spread over the area. With that said, the evaporational cooling should tug the sfc temps downward by a degree or two this evening... Before temps finally warm overnight. Regarding wintry precip: some light freezing rain may occur with the onset of the light precip this evening across NE ky, SW va, se oh, and wv. However, as sfc temps warm overnight any ice that develops should melt. All in all, not overly impressed right now with freezing rain occurring across much of the winter weather advisory area, but will maintain for now in the off-chance that temps remain colder than expected overnight. Would not be surprised if portions of the winter wx advisory are canceled at some point overnight for the aforementioned areas. It will be a much different story across E and SE wv, however. Latest guidance has come in colder with overnight sfc temps from roughly kbkw to kekn and points eastward... And warmer with the melting layer. This may increase the freezing rain potential (and associated ice accumulations) for those areas. Have lowered snowfall amounts a little and increased sleet and ice accumulations for the winter storm warning area and for se raleigh, SE fayette, and SE nicholas counties. Even now, ice accumulation forecasts may be a little on the conservative side. As of 230 pm Wednesday... models and MOS guidance have continued to warm with each run. Mos guidance now keeps the huntington and charleston airports above freezing overnight, with beckley above freezing by the time that precipitation arrives. Still could see some of the normal colder spots picking up some brief freezing rain as the precipitation moves in, so will go with a winter weather advisory in this corridor for now. Further north in areas west of the mountains, will see a better chance of some freezing rain overnight, although models mos have also trended warmer in this area. Will continue go with an advisory in this area. The main brunt of the storm should affect the higher elevations of the northern mountains and the northern greenbrier. Expect significant accumulations of sleet and freezing rain, with some snow also possible at times. Will upgrade this area to a winter storm warning. Short term tonight through Saturday night As of 212 pm Wednesday... low pressure over ky will quickly move across the region Thursday night and exit early Friday morning. Cold air on the backside of this low will change any lingering precipitation back to snow before ending from west to east on Friday. Could see a dusting up to an inch from SE oh across into wv. Lingering snow showers will continue across the favorable upslope areas of the WV mountains with an additional inch or two through the day on Friday and gradually end Friday evening. Weak ridging to the south will dry things out for Saturday into Sunday. A weak cold front is expected to approach the region on Sunday with the possibility of shower across the northern portion of the area.

Long term Sunday through Wednesday As of 200 pm Wednesday... while the end of the weekend looks to be fairly quiet, models are in agreement of a shortwave crossing through the region on Monday, but timing consensus is still lacking this far out. Surface cold front quickly passes through Monday morning, with its associated precipitation banking up along the mountains by midday. Low level moisture will be sparse during the remainder of the long term, keeping any passing energy lobe aloft from sparking additional activity after Monday. Aviation 06z Thursday through Monday As of 115 am Thursday... an approaching low pressure system will bring widespread rain through Thursday. Rain overnight may freeze on elevated surfaces across the northern lowlands and in the mountains. This would include pkb, ckb, ekn and bkw. Fzra may persist into the daylight morning hours at ekn. More significant ice accumulation, as well as some snow accumulation, is likely over the higher terrain. Ceiling and visibility are likely to drop into MVFR from south to north overnight, and then to ifr at times Thursday. Thursday night will bring slow improvement on ceilings, which will struggle to get above 1000 ft. Visibility will improve toVFR Thursday night, except for MVFR or brief ifr in snow showers. MVFR visibility in snow showers may be more persistent in and near the mountains Thursday night. Light east to northeast surface flow overnight will become light east to southeast early Thursday morning, and then light and variable the balance of Thursday with low pressure overhead, and then becoming light west to northwest Thursday night, as the low GOES by. Surface flow in the mountains overnight will be more southeasterly, and gusty on the ridges, including bkw with gusts to around 25 kts ongoing there. Forecast confidence and alternate scenarios through 06z Friday... forecast confidence: medium. Alternate scenarios: timing of the arrival of precipitation, and precipitation type may vary overnight into Thursday morning. Category changes may vary in a widespread MVFR ifr environment this period. Experimental table of flight category objectively shows consistency of WFO forecast to available model information: h = high: TAF consistent with all models or all but one model. M = medium: TAF has varying level of consistency with models. L = low: TAF inconsistent with all models or all but one model. Date Thu 11 15 18 utc 1hrly 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 est 1hrly 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 crw consistency h h h h h h m m m h h h hts consistency h m m h h h h m m h m h bkw consistency h h h m h m m m m h h h ekn consistency h h h h h h h m h h h h pkb consistency h h h h h m h h h m h h ckb consistency h h h h h h h m h m h h after 06z Friday... ifr possible in snow showers overnight Thursday night into early Friday morning, mainly in the mountains. Rlx watches warnings advisories Wv... Winter storm warning until 7 pm est this evening for wvz522>524-526. Winter weather advisory until 9 am est this morning for wvz006>011-014>020-027>031-033-034-515>521. Winter weather advisory until 11 am est this morning for wvz032-039-040-525. Oh... Winter weather advisory until 9 am est this morning for ohz083- 085>087. Winter weather advisory until 11 am est this morning for ohz066-067-075-076-084. Ky... Winter weather advisory until 9 am est this morning for kyz101>103. Va... Winter weather advisory until 9 am est this morning for vaz004. Synopsis... Js rpy trm mek near term... Rpy rh trm short term... Js long term... Mek aviation... Trm

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Weather Reporting Stations

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Airport Reports

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Airport	Dist	Age	Wind kt	Visibility	Sky/Weather	Temp	DewPt	Humidity	Pressure
Wise / Lonesome Pine, VA	18 mi	72 min	SE 7 G 16	7.00 mi	Light Rain	36°F	35°F	100%	1020.3 hPa

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Wind Forecast for Charleston WV (3,6,7,8)

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