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Your Nelson County Life custom area forecast including: Afton, Crozet, Schuyler, & Love

Today Early morning clouds. Becoming mostly sunny by afternoon.
* Highs Valley: 52-55Â°
*On the mountains: 46-49Â°
*Winds: SW-5 MPH

Tonight Mostly clear early evening, becoming partly cloudy late night.
* Lows Valley: 31-34Â°
*On the mountains: 29-32Â°
*Winds: SW 5-10 MPH

Tomorrow Cloudy with rain developing.
* Highs Valley: 46-49Â°
*On the mountains: 40-43Â°
*Winds: SE 5-10 MPH

The weekend Saturday look for the rain to diminish briefly with partly sunny skies, before rain moves back in Sunday. Temps will be in the mid 50’s valley Saturday dropping to the lower 40’s valley for highs. On the mountains mid 40’s Saturday and upper 30’s Sunday – Night time lows generally low & mid 30’s valley, dropping to mid 20’s Sunday night.

Breaking News, Breaking Weather we’ll have it all here!

Have a great Thursday!

Know your Nelson.COM
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Wintergreen Weather : Wednesday : Including BRP & Nelson County, VA : Light AM Showers, Partly Cloudy Late, Rain By Weekend

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December 26, 2007

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Weathercast by Tommy Stafford, Nelson County Life Magazine

Forecast Text Updated 9:45 AM EST for rain chances and cloud cover

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Photography by Tommy Stafford
Nelson County Life Magazine Â©2007
Nick Celebrates Post Christmas
Greenfield / Afton, Virginia

Christmas 2007 is in the history books and Santa is on his way back to the North Pole for another year. One of our beagles, Nick, shown above, celebrated in style with his Christmas candy cane, actually rawhide chew! Christmas is significant for Nick since it was exactly a year ago on Christmas Eve when he was pitched over the fence at Almost Home Adoption Center just north of Lovingston. Since we’d recently had to put down Millington our other beagle about a month before, we decided to give Nick a new home. Think he’s adjusted well over the past year!

Tuesday didn’t seem very much like Christmas weather wise across Virginia. The afternoon temperature reached a high of 56Â° here at NCL-Nelson County Life Magazine in the Rockfish Valley. You jump a few thousand feet up at NCL-Wintergreen Nature Foundation on Devil’s Knob and the high temperature on Christmas Day was still pretty warm at 52Â°.

Regardless, it’s been a good holiday for sking on the mountain at Wintergreen. Wintergreen Resort’s latest report shows several slopes open with snow making underway as of Tuesday night. You can click here to get the latest slope conditions and openings from the resort.

Wednesday will be more or less a cloudy day. We’ll have the chance for light showers as a weak low pressure area passes nearby. I can’t even rule out some sleet in the mountains, perhaps a little wet snow, but with all of the sunshine and warmth from yesterday, just don’t think it’s going to be a factor. We might see some sunshine by late afternoon just before dark, but most of the day will be cloudy with scattered showers developing.

By Friday night look for rain chances to increase with chances continuing into the weekend. There is a slight chance for snow overnight in the higher elevations over the weekend. We’ll just have to see how that shakes out, right now I am not impressed with the chances.

Regional Radar look via Wundergound.com

The National Current Surface Map via wunderground

Over the next 24 hours

And for those of you keeping score at home check the detailed numbers below at any of our reporting NCL-Weathernet Stations for real up to the minute live weather data and detailed information including highs, lows, wind speeds, rainfall and much, much more.

*NCL-Nelson County Life Magazine : Greenfield / Afton, VA

*NCL-Wintergreen Nature Foundation : Devil’s Knob, VA

*NCL-Wintergreen Winery @ the foot of Wintergreen Mountain in Beech Grove, VA

*NCL-Hatcreek Farm on Horseshoe Mountain : Roseland, VA

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Your Nelson County Life custom area forecast including: Greenfield, Greenwood, Shipman, & Montebello

Today Mostly cloudy with scattered showers over 50% of the area, possible light sleet or light snow on mountains early.
* Highs Valley: 47-50Â°
*On the mountains: 45-48Â°
*Winds: NE 5-10 MPH

Tonight Becoming partly cloudy.
* Lows Valley: 30-33Â°
*On the mountains: 28-31Â°
*Winds: W-5

Tomorrow Mostly sunny.
* Highs Valley: 46-49Â°
*On the mountains: 42-45Â°
*Winds: SW-5 MPH

The remainder of the week Friday, clouds move in with chances for rain on through the weekend. Temps will be in the upper 40’s to mid 50’s valley by next weekend, mid 40’s mountains. Night time lows generally mid 30’s mountains and valley.

Breaking News, Breaking Weather we’ll have it all here!

Have a great Wednesday!

Know your Nelson.COM
-T-

Wintergreen Christmas Forecast : Including all of Nelson County, VA : Sunny & Seasonal : Rain by Next Weekend

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December 24, 2007

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Weathercast by Tommy Stafford, Nelson County Life Magazine

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Photography by Tommy Stafford
Nelson County Life Magazine Â©2007
Christmas Time at The Afton Group
Greenfield / Afton, Virginia

No it didn’t snow last night and you missed it! We just wanted to put something up to keep everyone in the Christmas spirit as we head toward Santa’s arrival! First Yvette and I want to say thank you to everyone who’s been our faithful readers & supporters of the magazine over the past three years. Can you believe it? This coming year marks our third year! We’ll celebrate that on April 1st, how fitting! We want to thank all of the advertisers in our magazine as well. And especially those guys who have been with us from day one back in 2005. You took a chance and we hope we’ve never let you down.

Christmas is such a special time here in Nelson. It’s a beautiful place filled with wonderful people. Yvette and I are proud to call this our home and proud of the wonderful friends we have made since moving to Nelson a few years ago. I was raised in a special place during my childhood as well. Back in West Tennessee, Christmas was always special. We lived on a wide open farm, though flat, no mountains in West Tennessee near the Mississippi River, it was a such a wonderful place to grow up. Cows grazing in the pasture, horses , and just wide open space like here in Nelson. Every Christmas my mother would bake cookies and make a Christmas supper like none other. We always had a live tree in the house, a tradition we carry on here in Virginia. I never could get use to the artificial ones. Though my folks do have one now. It is much easier! On a rare occasion we’d get a Christmas snow, those were the really special.

Today my folks live in that very same house on the farm I was raised in from birth. Though Nelson has become our home, Christmas always reminds you of how special those past Christmas memories are. Yvette and I hope each of you have a very special Christmas this year with many memories too!

Weatherwise, just look at the picture above of our office and dream of a white Christmas, that’s about as close as we’ll get! No promise of snow here in Central Virginia, not even a chance for rain until we get toward the end of the week. This past weekend was pretty nasty, and though the possibility of severe weather never developed, the fog hung in there until late Sunday when skies cleared and the winds picked up. We did get some much needed rain with amounts varying from .63″ here at our office in Greenfield to 1.43″ inches upon the mountain at NCL-Wintergreen Nature Foundation.

Christmas Day will seasonal. By the time we get to the weekend, rain renters the forecast. There was a chance for snow in earlier models Wednesday night, but that’s off the table now and it looks too warm for the weekend to be snow, though it is possible in the mountains at night. We just have to keep an eye on that between now and then, you know my saying about those extended forecasts! Don’t believe em’

The National Current Surface Map via wunderground

Over the next 24 hours

And for those of you keeping score at home check the detailed numbers below at any of our reporting NCL-Weathernet Stations for real up to the minute live weather data and detailed information including highs, lows, wind speeds, rainfall and much, much more.

*NCL-Nelson County Life Magazine : Greenfield / Afton, VA

*NCL-Wintergreen Nature Foundation : Devil’s Knob, VA

*NCL-Wintergreen Winery @ the foot of Wintergreen Mountain in Beech Grove, VA

*NCL-Hatcreek Farm on Horseshoe Mountain : Roseland, VA

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Your Nelson County Life Christmas forecast including: Devil’s Knob, Afton, Massies Mill, & Roseland

Christmas Day Partly sunny and fair.
* Highs Valley: 50-53Â°
*On the mountains: 43-46Â°
*Winds: NE-5 MPH becoming SE in the afternoon

Christmas night Mostly cloudy.
* Lows Valley: 31-34Â°
*On the mountains: 24-27Â°
*Winds: E-5 becoming W after midnight

The remainder of the week looks much the same until we reach Friday when clouds move in with chances for rain on through the weekend. Temps will be in the upper 40’s to mid 50’s valley by next weekend, low & mid 40’s mountains. Night time lows generally mid and upper 20’s mountains and mid 30’s valley.

We’ll be updating the forecast as needed over Christmas, but again want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. Be safe out there and have a great time and we’ll talk to you again on Wednesday!

Know your Nelson.COM
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Outro music bed: Christmas Time is Here, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Vince Guaraldi Trio – Fantasy Records – Berkley, California – 1988 – 1950, 1952

Breaking : Blue Ridge Parkway : Augusta & Nelson Counties : Search Underway : LOCATED: Updated 4:00 PM EST

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December 23, 2007

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Updated 4:00 PM EST
NCL spoke with Nelson County Sheriff Elect, David Brooks around 4 PM this afternoon. “There was a lost hiker in the area near Humpback Rocks. Luckily, it wasn’t long before the hiker was located and everything is fine,” says David. Crews from Wintergreen, Nelson, and Augusta were involved in the search. Until late this afternoon the weather upon the mountains was terribly foggy, but has cleared now.

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NCL has confirmed with Wintergreen Fire & Rescue that a search is underway near the BRP of Nelson & Augusta Counties. We have few details at this time, but do know members of Wintergreen, Nelson and Augusta squads are organizing in the area of Humpback Rocks Park at the visitor center to assist in the search.

More as we have it.
NCL

Nelson : Special Weather Statement : Strong Thunderstorms & High Winds Possible : Threat Diminished : Updated 4PM EST

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December 23, 2007

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Updated 4 PM EST : The threat for severe weather in the Nelson County area has decreased. Expect gusty WNW winds behind a cold front moving through the area. Gusts as high as 35-40 MPH can be expected.

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We continue to monitor an approaching cold front that may trigger some strong to severe thunderstorms in our area this afternoon and evening. The NWS details are listed below: I will update with any watches or warnings.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK…UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
958 AM EST SUN DEC 23 2007

A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL CROSS THE MID ATLANTIC TODAY. STRONG
WINDS WILL PRECEDE AND IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW THE FRONTAL
PASSAGE…ESPECIALLY OVER NORTHERN MARYLAND. A WIND ADVISORY IS IN
EFFECT THROUGH 10 PM. FOR AREAS SOUTH…WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL
BE LIKELY. IN ADDITION…ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP ALONG THE
FRONT WILL ALSO BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.

Wind Advisory for areas just west of Nelson including Augusta and the BRP:

For a graphic and map outline of the affected area click here.

URGENT – WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
935 AM EST SUN DEC 23 2007

MDZ502-VAZ025>031-WVZ050-055-502-504-232200-
/O.CON.KLWX.WI.Y.0010.071223T1500Z-071224T0300Z/
CENTRAL AND EASTERN ALLEGANY-AUGUSTA-ROCKINGHAM-SHENANDOAH-
FREDERICK VA-PAGE-WARREN-CLARKE-HAMPSHIRE-HARDY-EASTERN GRANT-
EASTERN MINERAL-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF…CUMBERLAND…STAUNTON…WAYNESBORO…
HARRISONBURG…WINCHESTER…FRONT ROYAL…PETERSBURG…KEYSER…
FORT ASHBY
935 AM EST SUN DEC 23 2007

…WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST THIS EVENING…

A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST THIS EVENING.

A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL CROSS THE MID ATLANTIC TODAY. STRONG TO
POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS MAY IMMEDIATELY PRECEDE AND
FOLLOW THE PASSAGE OF THIS FRONTAL BOUNDARY. WIND SPEEDS OF
50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE…ESPECIALLY IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN. ANY
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT ACCOMPANY THE FRONT WILL ALSO HAVE
THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. SEVERAL HOURS OF
GUSTY WINDS BEHIND THE FRONT ARE ALSO ANTICIPATED. WINDS ARE
EXPECTED TO DIMINISH BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA OVERNIGHT.

A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED.
WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT…ESPECIALLY FOR
HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION.
THERE IS A RISK OF ISOLATED SHORT-LIVED TORNAODES WITHIN THE LINE
OF THUNDERSTORMS…ESPECIALLY EAST OF INTERSTATE 95 AND ACROSS
LOWER SOUTEHRN MARYLAND BETWEEN 3 AND 7 PM.

A GALE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE TIDAL POTOMAC AND MARYLAND
PORTION OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

WITH AN EAST TO SOUTHEAST FLOW AND FULL MOON…WATER LEVELS WILL INCREASE
TO 1 TO 2 FEET ABOVE NORMAL THROUGH THIS EVENING. THESE ANOMALIES MAY
LEAD TO MINOR TIDAL FLOODING IN AREAS ADJACENT TO THE TIDAL
POTOMAC AND CHESAPEAKE BAY DURING TIMES OF HIGH TIDE THROUGH
SUNDAY EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN…MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

SMALL CRAFT CONDITIONS MAY PERSIST ON THE TIDAL POTOMAC AND
MARYLAND PORTION OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON.

Wintergreen Weekend Weather : Including BRP & Nelson County, VA : Drizzle & Fog : Rain, Windy, and Possible T-Storms Sunday : Updated Sun AM

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December 23, 2007

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Weathercast by Tommy Stafford, Nelson County Life Magazine

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Friday was last of day of Fall. Winter officially arrived Saturday morning at 1:08 AM. That’s the shortest day of the year, from here on folks, summer lovers like me, can relish in the fact that the days will begin getting longer, just a tad from here on. Sorry mom. She loves Winter and always jokes around with me when the days begin getting shorter in the summer knowing that Winter is on the way (Okay, since I initially prepared the forecast, our faithful reader, John Taylor, upon the mountain sent us a comment letting me know that technically it’s not the shortest day, but the day with the least daylight, you are correct John!). Speaking of the mountain at Wintergreen Resort it certainly looks like winter there. The slopes closest to the Mountain Inn are open and folks have been out skiing this week. John also mentioned in his post Friday evening that Eagle’s Swoop had also opened, that is great news! You can click on the highlighted sentence just before this to get the latest slope reports from the resort.

Speaking of Wintergreen, want to say thanks to Meridith Young at Black Rock Gallery in the Mountain Inn. She grabbed some shots of the light snowfall this past Friday morning.

We will be mostly cloudy all weekend long with increasing chances for measurable rain as we get toward the end of the weekend. Rain chances increase on Saturday night into Sunday. Saturday starts pretty foggy early with drizzle in throughout the day. Sunday brings more widespread rain, isolated severe thunderstorms, (see graphic below and text) and windy conditions.

Our prospects for a white Christmas aren’t very good, right now about 10%. The night after Christmas gets a little more interesting. A possible new storm is in the mix, we’ll just have to see what the temperatures do by then.

And finally we’ll be doing our our first annual special Christmas forecast Sunday and Monday evening, think Yvette’s even gonna help out so be to check back for that!

The National Current Surface Map via wunderground

Over the next 24 hours

And for those of you keeping score at home check the detailed numbers below at any of our reporting NCL-Weathernet Stations for real up to the minute live weather data and detailed information including highs, lows, wind speeds, rainfall and much, much more.

*NCL-Nelson County Life Magazine : Greenfield / Afton, VA

*NCL-Wintergreen Nature Foundation : Devil’s Knob, VA

*NCL-Wintergreen Winery @ the foot of Wintergreen Mountain in Beech Grove, VA

*NCL-Hatcreek Farm on Horseshoe Mountain : Roseland, VA