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Check in Tuesday morning to find out how you can win free adult and family tickets to Band Fair this coming weekend. Details in the Tuesday NCL weathercast!
WEATHER INFO : Monday 5.12.08
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We had hoped to have full weather complete with audio available this Monday morning. Unfortunately, due to heavy thunderstorms, not here, but in Germantown, MD where our satellite provider, Hughesnet, uplinks the signal we had no service in time to allow for the regular weathercast. Without full speed sat service we can’t upload the files needed and can only deal in short text.
We should be able to post later today normally.
We apologize for the trouble.
NCL.
WINTERGREEN MOUNTAIN : WFD Responds To Fully Engulfed House Fire – UPDATED W/ PHOTOS 5.13.08
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Updated: 5.13.08 3:45 PM EDT
Wintergreen Fire Chief, Curtis Sheets, sent these from the fire the other night. His comments are in the comment section of this post. He has the de4tails on what happened.
Thank you Chief Sheets for sending these our way and giving us the details.
Updated : 10:38 PM EDT
NCL has confirmed that units from the Wintergreen Fire Department responded to a fully engulfed structure fire on Tanner’s Ridge Sunday night around 8:30 PM. We have since been told it was just off Laurel Springs Drive. The house may have been hit by lightning.
Investigators are on the scene to definitely determine how the fire started.
More as we have it.
Photography Below, courtesy of Wintergreen Fire Department
BEECH GROVE : Sparrow’s Cafe Opens In Village At Glen Mary
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Photography By Nelson County Life Magazine ©2008
Beech Grove / Wintergreen, Virginia
Folks above pick up a to go order at the newly opened Sparrow’s Cafe in Beech Grove. The restaurant and coffee shop opened last week. It’s located behind Devil’s Backbone Brewery that’s under construction near the intersection of Route 151 and 664 in the vicinity of The Ski Barn on the way to Wintergreen Resort.
One of the yummy breakfast plates at Sparrow’s Cafe. This was one Yvette tried out.
The restaurant and coffee house, complete with Wi-Fi wireless for internet, is in the recently reconstructed Old Arrington Train Depot. You can click here for more history on the old depot.
The Suazo Family, owners of the cafe, hustle to prepare food for the crowd showing up this past weekend.
A view looking back toward the serving counter in the new cafe.
Sparrow’s Cafe is open for breakfast and lunch daily (closed Sunday) from 6:30 AM until 2:30 PM EDT. You can reach them by calling: 434.361.0054
WINTERGREEN : Founders Vision Overlook Dedicated
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Photography By Christina Kline
Nelson County Life Magazine ©2008
Wintergreen Mountain, Virginia
Saturday was a chilly, sometimes cloudy morning as The Wintergreen Nature Foundation honored the individuals whose vision shaped the Wintergreen community. Our Christina Kline attended the dedication and sent back these pictures from the ceremony.
Above (center), LF Payne makes the dedication official by cutting the ribbon. He is surrounded by Ed Morrissett, Gary Green, Dr. Byron Cooper (geologist who did his doctoral work mapping out Wintergreen’s geology)
According to TWNF:
“The Nature Foundation constructed an exhibit celebrating the insight of Wintergreen’s founders, forever reminding the community that the nature of Wintergreen is its greatest asset. This exhibit gives visitors an interpretive tour of the natural beauty found at Wintergreen a midst a garden of native wildflower, ferns and shrubs. The overlook on Wintergreen has been known as the Wintergreen Overlook, after May 10th, 2008 this overlook will be renamed Wintergreen Founders Vision Overlook.”
After the dedication a reception followed at The Trillium House.
FLOOD WATCH : NELSON AND VICINITY : 2 PM TODAY UNTIL MONDAY MORNING : Updated 10 AM Sunday
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Regional Animated Radar
FLOOD WATCH
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
1001 AM EDT SUN MAY 11 2008
…HEAVY RAIN EXPECTED TO RETURN…
.STRONG LOW PRESSURE WILL TRACK ACROSS THE MID ATLANTIC TONIGHT.
PLENTY OF MOISTURE WILL FEED THE SYSTEM FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO
AND THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.
WASHINGTON-EXTREME WESTERN ALLEGANY-CENTRAL AND EASTERN ALLEGANY-
HIGHLAND-AUGUSTA-ROCKINGHAM-SHENANDOAH-FREDERICK VA-PAGE-WARREN-
CLARKE-NELSON-ALBEMARLE-GREENE-MADISON-RAPPAHANNOCK-ORANGE-
CULPEPER-SPOTSYLVANIA-HAMPSHIRE-MORGAN-BERKELEY-JEFFERSON-
PENDLETON-HARDY-WESTERN GRANT-EASTERN GRANT-WESTERN MINERAL-
EASTERN MINERAL-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF…HAGERSTOWN…FROSTBURG…CUMBERLAND…
STAUNTON…WAYNESBORO…HARRISONBURG…WINCHESTER…FRONT ROYAL…
CHARLOTTESVILLE…WASHINGTON…CULPEPER…FREDERICKSBURG…
MARTINSBURG…CHARLES TOWN…BAYARD…PETERSBURG…EMORYVILLE…
HARTMANSVILLE…KEYSER…FORT ASHBY
1001 AM EDT SUN MAY 11 2008
…FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON
THROUGH MONDAY MORNING…
* EXPECT RAIN TO START ACROSS THE REGION EARLY THIS AFTERNOON FROM
SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST…AND OVERSPREAD THE ENTIRE AREA BY LATE
AFTERNOON. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WILL OCCUR LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
EARLY TONIGHT…ENDING FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST MONDAY MORNING.
ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN WILL FALL ON TOP OF SATURATED SOILS.
* THE HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE STREAMS AND CREEKS TO OVERFLOW THEIR
BANKS. ALSO…URBAN AREAS PRONE TO POOR DRAINAGE WILL BE
SUSCEPTIBLE TO FLOODING. AS THE WATER WORKS ITS WAY INTO THE
RIVERS MONDAY…RIVER FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE UPPER
POTOMAC AND SHENANDOAH BASINS.
A FLOOD WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING BASED ON
CURRENT FORECASTS.
YOU SHOULD MONITOR LATER FORECASTS AND BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE
FLOOD WARNINGS. THOSE LIVING IN AREAS PRONE TO FLOODING SHOULD BE
PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD FLOODING DEVELOP.
WEATHER : Wintergreen & Nelson, VA : Weekend Outlook
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Forecast By Tommy Stafford – Nelson County Life Magazine
Regional Animated Radar
Today’s weather and is brought to you exclusively by:
The new farm market at a.m. Fog in Afton.
My childhood days were filled with memories of hot summer afternoons on the farm. Now back there it was cotton fields for as far as the eye could see. Down near the Mississippi River the sun would set over a distant barge pushing his way down to New Orleans. But the thing I remember most were those family farms, mom and pop types selling their vegetables along side the road.
Ken and Yvonne Harris at a.m. Fog on the Nelson-Albemarle County Line along Route 151 in Afton capture that kind of feel.
No you won’t see a tug headed down the Missip, but the family farm feel is there alive and well. Right now they have 6 kinds of lettuce. spinach, kale, brocoli, cabbage and veggie start. 26 types of heirloom tomatoes are on the way, plus sweet peppers, and a big selection of HOT peppers!
Just liste to some of what you can get now; asparagus, lettuce, cucumbers, STRAWBERRIES, strawberry onions (the best!!!), roasting potatoes, Idaho potatoes, carrots, green peppers, farm eggs, meat, and fresh baked bread.
And yea, not to worry, some on fellow, they still have my favorite the trusty:
-Local “Happy Steer†Hormone and Antibiotic Free Meat
-Local Hormone & Antibiotic Free ChickenNot to mention all of the other vegetables, annual, and perennial plants along with fruit trees ready for the spring planting season.
Have you seen that beautiful farm market? It’s OPEN FOR BUSINESS NOW, and before long stop in for hot teas, coffee, muffins, and bread while you take a look around, that could take while, there’s lots to see!
Visit them on the web at www.amfog.net or call them at 540-456-7100.
As talked about earlier, I am on the road this week in Tenneseee and while the first part of my trip has been near internet access, the last couple of days won’t. So, I am providing links down below to the generic forecasts for the mountain and valley. Don’t hang your hat on these, but they will give you a general idea of what the weather holds for the next several days.
Generally speaking, thunderstorms develop Thursday afternoon and continue through Friday afternoon. Skies become mostly sunny Saturday with temps in the mid 70’s. By Sunday showers are back in the forecast by Sunday.
We’ll be back in the saddle with regular weather and the audio starting Monday morning!
Regional Current Surface Map via wunderground
Looking 12-24 Hours Ahead
Click here for generic NWS forecast for Nelson County, Virginia
Click here for generic NWS forecast for areas above 2000 feet including Wintergreen.
Till then, have a great rest of the week and weekend!
WEATHER : WEDNESDAY : Wintergreen & Nelson, VA : Warm & Breezy : T-Storms By Thurs PM
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Forecast By Tommy Stafford – Nelson County Life Magazine
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Photography By Henri & Elaine Weems
For Nelson County Life Magazine ©2008
Spring In Rodes Farm
Nellysford, Virginia
Today’s weather and is brought to you exclusively by:
The new farm market at a.m. Fog in Afton.
My childhood days were filled with memories of hot summer afternoons on the farm. Now back there it was cotton fields for as far as the eye could see. Down near the Mississippi River the sun would set over a distant barge pushing his way down to New Orleans. But the thing I remember most were those family farms, mom and pop types selling their vegetables along side the road.
Ken and Yvonne Harris at a.m. Fog on the Nelson-Albemarle County Line along Route 151 in Afton capture that kind of feel.
No you won’t see a tug headed down the Missip, but the family farm feel is there alive and well. Right now they have 6 kinds of lettuce. spinach, kale, brocoli, cabbage and veggie start. 26 types of heirloom tomatoes are on the way, plus sweet peppers, and a big selection of HOT peppers!
Just liste to some of what you can get now; asparagus, lettuce, cucumbers, STRAWBERRIES, strawberry onions (the best!!!), roasting potatoes, Idaho potatoes, carrots, green peppers, farm eggs, meat, and fresh baked bread.
And yea, not to worry, some on fellow, they still have my favorite the trusty:
-Local “Happy Steer†Hormone and Antibiotic Free Meat
-Local Hormone & Antibiotic Free ChickenNot to mention all of the other vegetables, annual, and perennial plants along with fruit trees ready for the spring planting season.
Have you seen that beautiful farm market? It’s OPEN FOR BUSINESS NOW, and before long stop in for hot teas, coffee, muffins, and bread while you take a look around, that could take while, there’s lots to see!
Visit them on the web at www.amfog.net or call them at 540-456-7100.
Rain totals as of 11:00 PM EDT Monday night:
–WEDNESDAY’S High / Low at NCL-Nelson County Life Magazine in the Rockfish Valley : 79°/47° – RAIN : 0.04″ – YTD: 9.99″
–WEDNESDAY’S High / Low at NCL-Wintergreen Nature Foundation on Devil’s Knob @ Wintergreen Mountain : N/A°/N/A° – RAIN : N/A” – YTD: 16.11″
–WEDNESDAY’S High / Low at NCL-Hatcreek Farm on Horseshoe Mountain @ Roseland, VA : 79°/44° – RAIN : 0.04″ – YTD: 16.95″
–WEDNESDAY’S High / Low at NCL-Tiger Fuel @ Lovingston, VA : 76°/45° – RAIN : 0.00″
–WEDNESDAY’S High / Low at NCL-Delfosse Winery & Vineyard @ Faber, VA : 77°/52° – RAIN : 0.00″ – YTD: 6.76″ (estimated rainfall)
Thanks again to Henri and Elaine Weems of Rodes Farm for the late Spring photo above. Now that is a beautiful snapshot with all of the flowers blooming in the pasture!
After some rumbles of thunder Monday night, Tuesday ended up being a beautiful day. Most stations picked up around .04″ of rain just after midnight for rain totals on Tuesday. Some light to moderate showers formed again Tuesday evening around dark adding to the rain bucket.
Phil D’Ambola at D’Ambolas Restaurant in Afton e-mailed to let me know that even though I am not there to report the weather from Nelson, he’s keeping an eye on it for me!
Phil D’Ambola wrote:
Last night, Monday we had quite the thunderstorm, plenty of lighting
(bolt,sheet and ground up) lots of thunder, rain was not that much. Just
thought I would let you know what the weather is really like.
Nice to know the weather department is being staffed by my chef weather intern while away! So Phil, can I get some of that zucchini appetizer here in TN? Maybe you can Fed Ex it down!
Today will be a very nice day with warm temperatures once again. Temps reach the lower 80’s for afternoon highs. Winds start out light early in the day, but get sometimes breezy in the afternoon from the SW.
By Thursday chances for afternoon thunderstorms enter the forecast, but temps are still warm, topping out around 80°. Showers continue overnight Thursday but begin to taper off during the day Friday. Temps cool to near 70° for daytime highs by week’s end and into the upper 60’s by late weekend with chances for showers once again.
Right now the coming weekend looks partly sunny Saturday with slight rain chances again Sunday. Temps hold in the upper 60’s to around 70° during the period.
Regional Current Surface Map via wunderground
Looking 12-24 Hours Ahead
Your Nelson County Life custom area forecast including: Nellysford, Arrington, Ennis Mountain, and Beech Grove.
WEDNESDAY: Mostly sunny and continued warm.
* Highs Valley: 79-82°
*On the mountains: 70-73°
*Winds: W-5 becoming SW 10-15 by afternoon
*OVERNIGHT: Becoming mostly cloudy and mild. Lows valley: 57-60° : Mountains: 50-53° : Winds: SW 10-15 MPH
THURSDAY: Mostly cloudy, AM showers, then T-Storms by afternoon.
* Highs Valley: 77-80°
*On the mountains: 68-71°
*Winds: SW 5-10 MPH.
*OVERNIGHT: Scattered showers & T-Storms. Lows valley: 60-63° : Mountains: 54-57° : Winds: S 5-10 MPH
Next weekend looks seasonal with a chance for showers again by Sunday.
Have a great Wednesday everyone!
Piney River : Boy Scout Troop 32 Hikes AT
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Photography Courtesy of Stuart Smith
For Nelson County Life Magazine ©2008
Along The AT
Nelson County, Virginia
This past weekend Piney River Boy Scout Tropp 32 got the chance to hike the AT. Betsy Smith of Roseland sent these photos over to us. Her husband Stuart was along for the hike.
They tell us:
This is Boy Scout Troop 32 from Piney River. This past weekend they hiked 16 miles of the Appalachian Trail. They began at the fish hatchery at Montebello and ended at Rt. 60. They were led by Scout Master Steve Crandall. Most of the boys on the hike were the younger scouts who had never done a hike this long. They learned many lessons, especially how it feels to be REALLY tired! But when asked if they’d do it again – they said, “yep!”
Congrats on the great hike!
WEATHER : TUESDAY : Wintergreen And Nelson, VA : Mostly Sunny, Warm : T-Storms By Thurs PM
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Photography By Milly Colella
For Nelson County Life Magazine ©2008
Sunset At Rockfish Airpark
Nellysford, Virginia
Today’s weather and is brought to you exclusively by:
The new farm market at a.m. Fog in Afton.
My childhood days were filled with memories of hot summer afternoons on the farm. Now back there it was cotton fields for as far as the eye could see. Down near the Mississippi River the sun would set over a distant barge pushing his way down to New Orleans. But the thing I remember most were those family farms, mom and pop types selling their vegetables along side the road.
Ken and Yvonne Harris at a.m. Fog on the Nelson-Albemarle County Line along Route 151 in Afton capture that kind of feel.
No you won’t see a tug headed down the Missip, but the family farm feel is there alive and well. Right now they have 6 kinds of lettuce. spinach, kale, brocoli, cabbage and veggie start. 26 types of heirloom tomatoes are on the way, plus sweet peppers, and a big selection of HOT peppers!
Just liste to some of what you can get now; asparagus, lettuce, cucumbers, STRAWBERRIES, strawberry onions (the best!!!), roasting potatoes, Idaho potatoes, carrots, green peppers, farm eggs, meat, and fresh baked bread.
And yea, not to worry, some on fellow, they still have my favorite the trusty:
-Local “Happy Steer†Hormone and Antibiotic Free Meat
-Local Hormone & Antibiotic Free ChickenNot to mention all of the other vegetables, annual, and perennial plants along with fruit trees ready for the spring planting season.
Have you seen that beautiful farm market? It’s OPEN FOR BUSINESS NOW, and before long stop in for hot teas, coffee, muffins, and bread while you take a look around, that could take while, there’s lots to see!
Visit them on the web at www.amfog.net or call them at 540-456-7100.
Rain totals as of 11:00 PM EDT Monday night:
–TUESDAY’S High / Low at NCL-Nelson County Life Magazine in the Rockfish Valley : 76°/42° – RAIN : 0.18″ – YTD: 9.72″
–TUESDAY’S High / Low at NCL-Wintergreen Nature Foundation on Devil’s Knob @ Wintergreen Mountain : 67°/44° – RAIN : 0.29″ – YTD: 16.11″
–TUESDAY’S High / Low at NCL-Hatcreek Farm on Horseshoe Mountain @ Roseland, VA : 76°/44° – RAIN : 0.00″ – YTD: 16.58″
–TUESDAY’S High / Low at NCL-Tiger Fuel @ Lovingston, VA : 76°/47° – RAIN : 0.00″
–TUESDAY’S High / Low at NCL-Delfosse Winery & Vineyard @ Faber, VA : 75°/49° – RAIN : 0.02″ – YTD: 6.76″ (estimated rainfall)
Monday was a beautiful day, so I’m told, in Nelson. Milly Colella says so anyway. She sent in today’s weather photo of another great sunset from the Rockfish Airpark. Though oddly, a renegade thunderstorm or two developed just after dark primarily in the northern end of the county. When we start heading toward the warmer days, it’s not unheard of to have those pop up type of storms with afternoon heating of the day.
In the radar shot below around 10:00 PM you can see the two thunderstorm cells sandwiching Afton. Afton is right where the cross hair is on the snapshot.
Radar screen shot via wunderground.com around 10 PM last night.
As mentioned, I am on the road this week and filing the weather remotely from Tennessee. That would be West Tennessee, as far as you can go without dropping in the Mississippi!
Here it was nice and sunny as well, just north of Memphis.
Tuesday will be another nice day in Nelson with mostly sunny skies and temps working into the mid and upper 70’s across the valley regions and around 70° on the mountains. By the time Thursday afternoon rolls around thunderstorms ender the forecast through Friday night.
Right now the coming weekend looks mostly sunny Saturday with slight rain chances again Sunday. Temps hold in the upper 60’s to around 70° during the period.
Regional Current Surface Map via wunderground
Looking 12-24 Hours Ahead
Your Nelson County Life custom area forecast including: Rockfish Airpark, Nellysford, Love, and Crozet
TUESDAY: Mostly sunny and mild.
* Highs Valley: 75-78°
*On the mountains: 67-70°
*Winds: NW 5-10 MPH
*OVERNIGHT: Partly cloudy and mild. Lows valley: 50-53° : Mountains: 46-49° : Winds: W-5 MPH
WEDNESDAY: Continued mostly sunny and continued warmer.
* Highs Valley: 79-82°
*On the mountains: 70-73°
*Winds: SW 10-15 MPH.
*OVERNIGHT: Becoming mostly cloudy and continued mild. Lows valley: 59-62° : Mountains: 54-57° : Winds: SW 10-15 MPH
The rest of the week has scattered thunderstorms Thursday afternoon . Highs lower 80’s valley. Friday. Showers and thunderstorms in the morning then cloudy in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 70’s.
Next weekend looks seasonal with a chance for showers again by Sunday.
Have a great Tuesday everyone!
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