Sunny Saturday; Cold Rain For Sunday
January 7, 2011
Saturday will be sunny along the Gulf Coast, but a front will bring a cold rain for Sunday. Rain, sleet and even freezing rain is being forecast from Monroe and Conecuh counties in Alabama and north for Sunday night and Monday, so keep that in mind if you are traveling.
Here is your official North Escambia area forecast:
- Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 36. West wind between 5 and 10 mph.
- Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 56. North wind between 5 and 10 mph.
- Saturday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 28. North wind around 5 mph.
- Sunday: Showers likely. Cloudy, with a high near 44. Wind chill values between 25 and 35. East wind between 5 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
- Sunday Night: Showers likely. Cloudy, with a low around 37. East wind between 10 and 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
- Monday: A 30 percent chance of showers. Cloudy, with a high near 50. North wind around 5 mph.
- Monday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers before midnight. Cloudy, with a low around 35. North wind around 5 mph.
- Tuesday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 47. North wind around 5 mph.
- Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 30. North wind between 5 and 10 mph.
- Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 44.
- Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 28.
- Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 52.
- Thursday Night: Clear, with a low around 28.
- Friday: Sunny, with a high near 51.
Northwest Escambia Little League Plans Registration
January 6, 2011
Northwest Escambia Little League registration will be held the next three Saturdays in Walnut Hill.
Registration will be from 9 a.m. until noon on Saturday January 8, 15 and 22 at Bradberry Park for ages three to 18. A copy of the child’s birth certificate is required for registration.
Registration fees are $40 for the first child, $30 for the second child and free for additional children. The child will be measured for their uniform, and there will be a $20 deposit toward each child’s uniform fee.
Blood Drive Thursday In Walnut Hill
January 5, 2011
A blood drive will take place Thursday in Walnut Hill.
The Northwest Florida Blood Services bloodmobile will also be at the Walnut Hill Volunteer Fire Department on Highway 97 Thursday from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m.
When you donate to Northwest Florida Blood Services, you can save the life of a hospital patient in northwest Florida. Northwest Florida Blood Services is the exclusive provider of blood products to more than 24 area hospitals who need 175 blood donations a day. Each donation can save up to three lives.
Requirements for giving blood are below.
- Donors must be in generally good health
- At least 17 years of age, without permission. 16-year olds are now allowed to donate with permission granted by parents or legal guardians.
- Must bring picture ID
- Weigh at least 110 lbs
- Free of infection, fever or flu symptoms, for 3 days
- No cancer within the last 5 years
- No antibiotics within the last 48 hours
- No tattoos within the past 12 months
- No chest pain, heart disease, heart surgery (Requires written physician release with diagnosis)
- No history of viral hepatitis
- Cannot have lived in France for 5 years or more between 1980 and the present
- Cannot have lived or visited in the UK for a total of 3 months or more from 1980 to 1996
- Cannot have received a blood transfusion in the UK between 1980 and the present
- Military personnel (current and former), and their dependents, who spent time in military bases in northern Europe during 1980-1990, or southern Europe during 1980-1996, for 6 months or more
- All military personnel (active & reserve) that are returning from Iraq, are deferred for a period of 1 year after the last date on location in that country.
Pictured: The Northwest Florida Bloodmobile during a November blood drive at the Walnut Hill Volunteer Fire Department. NorthEscambia.com file photo, click to enlarge.
More Rain Possible
January 5, 2011
Here is your official North Escambia area forecast:
- Tonight: Scattered showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 45. Northwest wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
- Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 59. Northwest wind between 5 and 15 mph.
- Thursday Night: Clear, with a low around 31. West wind around 5 mph.
- Friday: Sunny, with a high near 64. West wind between 5 and 15 mph.
- Friday Night: Clear, with a low around 35. West wind between 5 and 10 mph.
- Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 61. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm.
- Saturday Night: A 50 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42. Calm wind becoming northeast around 5 mph.
- Sunday: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Cloudy, with a high near 49. Northeast wind between 5 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
- Sunday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 34. North wind between 5 and 10 mph.
- Monday: Partly sunny, with a high near 54.
- Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 32.
- Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 54.
- Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 30.
- Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 45.
New Century Council Members Take Office Tonight
January 3, 2011
Two new members of the Century Town Council will be sworn in tonight, taking their place among the five men and women that make up the town’s governing board.
Sandra McMurray Jackson was elected to the Seat 5 on the council currently held by Sharon Scott, who did not seek re-election. Jackson is the owner of Jackson-McMurray Funeral Services in Century. She defeated retired insurance agent Annie Carter Savage by just eight votes — 164 to 156 — to win the seat in October.
“I’ll feel truly blessed,” Jackson said after learning she had been elected to the council. “I love Century; I love the people here in Century.”
Political newcomer and 10-year Century resident Jacke Johnston defeated incumbent Henry Hawkins for Century Town Council Seat 3 in the November runoff election. Johnston received 174 votes to Hawkins 144 votes.
“I am really exited,” Johnston said after the election. “I can’t wait to get in there in January and work toward getting Century back on track.”
Hawkins and Johnston were forced into a runoff for the council’s Seat 3 after neither received a majority of the votes during the October general election.
Hawkins, a retired Air Force staff sergeant and GED instructor for Pensacola Junior College, received 44.55 percent of the October vote — shy of the 50 percent needed for a win. Johnston, a teacher at Byrneville Elementary School, received 32.71 percent of the vote in October, while Robert Lasher, an Edward D. Jones financial adviser, finished third with 22.74 percent.
Gary Riley, who is retired from Gulf Power, ran unopposed and was re-elected to Seat 4.
The Century Town Council meets at 7 p.m. on the first and third Monday of each month.
Pictured top: Newly elected Century Town Council member Sandra McMurray Jackson awaits her seat at the Century Town Council table. Pictured inset: Jacke Johnston defeated incumbent Henry Hawkins. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
Cool Monday Night
January 3, 2011
Here is your official North Escambia area forecast:
- Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 32. Calm wind.
- Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 62. Calm wind.
- Tuesday Night: A 40 percent chance of rain, mainly after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42. Calm wind becoming east around 5 mph.
- Wednesday: Rain likely. Cloudy, with a high near 55. Northeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
- Wednesday Night: A 30 percent chance of rain before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. Calm wind becoming north around 5 mph.
- Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 58. West wind between 5 and 10 mph.
- Thursday Night: Clear, with a low around 35. West wind around 5 mph.
- Friday: Sunny, with a high near 62. West wind between 5 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
- Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 34. Northwest wind between 5 and 10 mph.
- Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 56.
- Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 32.
- Sunday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 52.
- Sunday Night: A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 36.
- Monday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 57.
Colder Weather Back
January 2, 2011
Colder weather has returned, with Sunday night’s low once again dipping below freezing.
Here is your official North Escambia area forecast:
- Tonight: Clear, with a low around 27. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm.
- Monday: Sunny, with a high near 57. Wind chill values between 25 and 35 early. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm.
- Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 31. Calm wind.
- Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 60. Calm wind becoming north around 5 mph.
- Tuesday Night: A 20 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 38. Calm wind.
- Wednesday: A 50 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 59. Calm wind becoming southeast between 5 and 10 mph.
- Wednesday Night: Showers likely. Cloudy, with a low around 49. South wind around 5 mph becoming northwest. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
- Thursday: A 20 percent chance of rain. Mostly sunny, with a high near 62. Northwest wind between 5 and 10 mph.
- Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 34. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm.
- Friday: Sunny, with a high near 59.
- Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 33.
- Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 56.
- Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 35.
- Sunday: A 20 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 50.
Cooler Tonight, Sunny Sunday
January 1, 2011
Here is your official North Escambia area forecast:
- Tonight: A 20 percent chance of showers before midnight. Cloudy, with a low around 43. North wind between 5 and 10 mph.
- Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 58. North wind between 10 and 15 mph.
- Sunday Night: Clear, with a low around 27. North wind around 5 mph.
- Monday: Sunny, with a high near 57. North wind between 5 and 10 mph becoming calm.
- Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 34. Calm wind.
- Tuesday: A 40 percent chance of rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 61. Calm wind becoming north around 5 mph.
- Tuesday Night: A 30 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 40. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm.
- Wednesday: A 30 percent chance of rain. Mostly sunny, with a high near 61. Calm wind becoming south between 5 and 10 mph.
- Wednesday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39.
- Thursday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 61.
- Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 39.
- Friday: Sunny and breezy, with a high near 57.
Who Will Be The North Escambia Persons Of The Year?
January 1, 2011
Who will be the North Escambia Persons Of The Year?
NorthEscambia.com will honor several North Escambia area residents as North Escambia Persons of the Year for 2010. We will begin naming our honorees on Sunday and continue next week.
Make sure you join us on Sunday and daily next week here on NorthEscambia.com!
Rainy New Year
December 31, 2010
Happy New Year! Here is your official North Escambia area forecast:
- Tonight: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could be severe. Low around 61. Southeast wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
- New Year’s Day: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. High near 69. Southeast wind 5 to 15 mph becoming southwest. Chance of precipitation is 100%.
- Saturday Night: A 50 percent chance of showers. Cloudy, with a low around 48. North wind around 5 mph.
- Sunday: A 20 percent chance of showers before noon. Mostly sunny, with a high near 62. North wind around 10 mph.
- Sunday Night: Clear, with a low around 29. North wind around 5 mph.
- Monday: Sunny, with a high near 58. North wind around 5 mph.
- Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 29. East wind between 5 and 10 mph.
- Tuesday: A 30 percent chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 61. North wind around 5 mph.
- Tuesday Night: A 20 percent chance of rain. Partly cloudy, with a low around 38. North wind between 5 and 10 mph.
- Wednesday: A 30 percent chance of rain. Mostly sunny, with a high near 61.
- Wednesday Night: A 20 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 41.
- Thursday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 63.
- Thursday Night: A 30 percent chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 45.
- Friday: A 30 percent chance of rain. Cloudy, with a high near 61.