{"id":10686,"date":"2015-05-12T13:35:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T18:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hwt.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/internal\/blog\/?p=10686"},"modified":"2015-05-12T13:35:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T18:35:04","slug":"sterling-va-initial-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2015\/05\/12\/sterling-va-initial-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Sterling, VA Initial Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overall, a large area of high pressure dominates the central United States with a surface cold front draped across the Appalachian Mountains through Pennsylvania, West Virginia and eastern Kentucky and Tennessee. A small trough was also centered over Virginia\u00a0 and North Carolina. A decent cu field accompanied the cold front with GOES CI values mostly 30% or less as of 1830Z.<\/p>\n<p>All the CAPE was concentrated over eastern North Carolina, with values of 500 J\/kg or less over Maryland and eastern Virginia. A fairly steep PW gradient cut through central Maryland with .75-1 inch in the northeast part of the state, up to just over 1.5 inches in the southeast portion.<\/p>\n<p>Any storms that do form over the CWA will be in the next few hours as the cold front moves through , but likely not severe.<\/p>\n<p>~ Regina Phalange<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall, a large area of high pressure dominates the central United States with a surface cold front draped across the Appalachian Mountains through Pennsylvania, West Virginia and eastern Kentucky and&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2015\/05\/12\/sterling-va-initial-environment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}