| Observation Date |
Observation Time |
Precipitation |
Snowfall |
Snowfall SWE |
Snow Depth |
Snow SWE |
Notes |
| 10/1/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.31 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Yet more rain, 52.6° Steady, light rain all night. 24 hr:52.4/71.6° Total rain for September was: 14.20" (2010: 2.59" ; 2009: 1.92"). State Highway 23 closed (again) due to flooding. This is really getting tedious! |
| 10/2/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.46 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 47.5° 24hr: 43.2/58.7° A brief period without rain between 9am and approx 2pm. Rain remained mostly light to moderate, with a thunderstorm beginning at 4:20am with long rumbles of rolling thunder. |
| 10/3/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 45.4° 24hr: 41.9/57.1° Most of yesterday was breezy and sunny, with the only clouds being lots of big cumulous ones moving by --until dinner time when rain returned. Just enough to keep things damp and funky. Might never finish painting the trim on the house this Fall! |
| 10/4/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.49 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Raining (again) 45.0° 24hr: 44.1/60.8° A gray film of mold was growing on our kitchen door wreath, it's been so damp for so long! Rain started at approx. 11pm and continued overnight into this morning. |
| 10/5/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.06 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly sunny, 53.5° 24hr: 44.8/58.9° the 0.06" occurred between yesterday morning's obs & report, and noontime when the rain finally cleared out. Hoping this afternoon will finally be dry enough to resume painting! |
| 10/6/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Bright sun, 38.9° Extremely heavy dew, resulted in 0.01" in the gauge, but I'm sure there was no precipitation, so I'm reporting it as zero. 24hr: 35.5/65.0° First night in the 30°s this season... |
| 10/7/2011 |
7:10 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 35.8° 24hr: 35.5/61.6° Flirted with our first frost last night. |
| 10/8/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 44.1° with heavy dew. 24hr: 40.1/61.7° |
| 10/9/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 57.4° with heavy dew. 24hr: 44.1 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] 72.0° Perfect day to finish exterior painting before winter sets in. Yesterday I put a fresh coat of white paint on the snowboard... |
| 10/10/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 51.1, with heavy dew. 24hr: 49.1/76.1° Holding back on putting up bird feeders with reports that bear's big Fall food supply of nuts is in short supply, but we seem to have an over-abundance of ash nuts and maple seed 'helicopters' here. |
| 10/11/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Partly cloudy, 54.2° 24hr: 50.9/74.9° Quite an assortment of cloud types this morning, from cirrus and 'mare's tails' to cumulous. |
| 10/12/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 54.4° 24hr: 54.2/69.3° Feels a lot cooler than it actually is. I guess we've been spoiled by the warm Fall temps to date. Even warm loving annuals such as impatiens are still chugging along, although all the baskets and containers are looking pretty straggly. |
| 10/13/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.16 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 53.6° 24hr: 51.3/61.0° Lots of dripping under the maple trees, but in the open where the gauge is located, it is not raining at obs time. The week of dry weather before this system has finally lowered the water table, which is now below the foundation level (can monitor through the grate at the foot of the basement steps). Pumps are quite. |
| 10/14/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.73 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 63.9° 24hr: 53.8/64.4° Most of the 0.73" was the result of heavier rains that occurred with a thunderstorm that began at 1am. |
| 10/15/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.12 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny and a lot cooler, 48.4° 24hr: 48.1/68.4° Most of the rain came in one heavier rain and some thunder at approx 3pm. |
| 10/16/2011 |
8:45 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 51.7° 24hr: 47.7/58.7° Drops began falling at 3pm as we were just beginning an Ocktoberfest party here. Thankfully, the sprinkles and wind and dark clouds let up quickly and it proved to be a great Fall day with some stars visible in the evening. |
| 10/17/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.06 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 49.1° 24hr: 48.4/62.8° Rain came through overnight. Put up a high hanging bird-feeder yesterday after observing several birds looking for it and being very confused by an iron candle holder we've had hanging near the location where the feeder usually is. Hope this isn't too soon, with bears still being active... |
| 10/18/2011 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 52.0° 24hr: 47.7/61.6° |
| 10/19/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.25 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Raining, 56.3° 24hr: 49.3/63.7° |
| 10/20/2011 |
7:30 AM |
0.72 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, windy, and warm, 59.0° 24hr: 56.0/62.6° Beautiful, tall, high cumulous clouds outlined in gold and back-lit from the just rising sun. Bears still active; mother and cubs seen this morning around the corner. |
| 10/21/2011 |
7:30 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 46.3° 24hr: 46.3/61.4° All 'warm season' plants are looking a bit scraggly, but continuing to chug along... |
| 10/22/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 42.7° with heavy dew. 24Hr: 40.9/53.5° |
| 10/23/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 45.5° 24hr: 42.5/55.3° Cloud cover protected us from the forecast frost last night. |
| 10/24/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 39.8° with heavy dew. 24hr: 37.6/55.6° |
| 10/25/2011 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 46.4° 24hr: 39.8 [yesterday am's reset]/58.1° The "T" occurred yesterday afternoon when a few drops fell. If I had not been here, and also been outside at the time, I would have missed it. [Hey, Mat, nice interview!] |
| 10/26/2011 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 44.8° 24hr: 40.1/56.7° The first drops of rain were beginning to fall as I was walking out to check the gauge this morning. |
| 10/27/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.17 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Light rain, 47.7° 24hr: 44.5/58.3° Will remove the inner tube and put out the snowboard; forecast is for our first snow of the season tonite on the back end of this system. |
| 10/28/2011 |
7:00 AM |
0.56 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Still too dark to observe the sky, 30.8° 24hr: 30.6/51.6° The gauge was frozen to the post this morning & precip was partially frozen. Time to apply the WD-40 to the bracket! |
| 10/29/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 37.6° 24hr: 30.6/45.5° Nothing yet. A HUGE flock of mixed blackbirds filled the highest tops of all the neighborhood trees making quite a racket this morning. Maybe they're not fond of early snowfalls, either! |
| 10/30/2011 |
8:00 AM |
1.46 |
14.1 |
1.46 |
14.0 |
1.46 |
Sunny, 30.6° 24hr: 28.3/38.0° Even though we've had snow on the ground before Halloween here 3 out of the past 4 years, this snowfall was just stunning. I've never seen my gauge topped with snow in a perfect cylinder shape, rising as high as the gauge tube itself! SWE of gauge = 1.03"; SWE of snowboard = 1.46" Lost power briefly last night. Looks like we'll be loosing a lilac and 2 out of 3 newly planted arborvitae. Trees weighed down so heavily that a birdfeeder that I'd hung extremely high to discourage bears, was hanging at waist level. Hard to open kitchen door: the gutters still clogged with leaves and 14" snow were pulling them down. Onward, to shoveling... |
| 10/31/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
7.5 |
1.44 |
Mostly sunny with high clouds and a frost, 24.5° 24hr: 23.6/42.1° With almost half the volume of the snow melted, the SWE is still almost what it was at yesterday morning's obs. I think it's all the snow that fell out of the trees during the day yesterday, that had not been originally measured. Quite a day for the trick-or-treaters! |
| 11/1/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
5.5 |
1.37 |
Mostly sunny, 31.9° 24hr: 24.3/46.6° Had to strain out leaves after melting the SWE! Since the Nor'Easter also produced our 1st freeze, afterwards the trees dramatically dropped leaves. Very odd to see a layer of them on top of snowpack! 5.6" of snow remains. Total Precip for October = 5.60" |
| 11/2/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
2.0 |
0.69 |
Sunny, 29.5° 24hr: 24.3/46.6° Snowpack being eaten away at the edges touching dark surfaces such as the road, patio, and paths. But still 2.2" everywhere else. |
| 11/3/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
1.0 |
0.35 |
Partly cloudy, with high, hazy clouds, and frost: 32.4° 24hr: 29.3/54.2° Areas nearby maple and mulberry trees which really dropped leaves after the snow are snow-free. Everything else has a very crunchy 1.1" The oaks and forsythia are still retaining leaves. |
| 11/4/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
T |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 43.0° 24hr: 32.4/57.1° Neighborhood snow coverage is extremely uneven. Some yards have no snow; some 80 - 90%. Also big difference between SE &NW sides of our house. I'd say the average coverage of ground that still has snow on it is approx. 30% So I'll report "T" until the only thing left is piles where the snow had been plowed/shoveled. |
| 11/5/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 35.1° 24hr: 30.4/48.6° Since snow now remains only in piles where it had been plowed/shoveled, I'll stop reporting "T." Until next snowfall! |
| 11/6/2011 |
7:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny with a heavy frost, 26.5° 24hr: 24.7/46.3° Layer of ice on the pond. Struggling to get inside the last of the tender bulbs that cannot winter outdoors. |
| 11/7/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 41.6° 24hr: 26.3 [yesterday a.m.'s reset]/51.8° A VERY large black bear walked through our yard yesterday early afternoon, so despite the snowfall and 20° night-time temps, not all of them are hibernating yet. We still have some small clumps of snow remaining in shady areas of the yard. |
| 11/8/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 43.0° 24hr: 40.1/58.5° Mother bear and cubs still active in my neighbor's yard. It certainly was odd to have the kitchen door open yesterday afternoon and still have patches of snow on the ground in several places. |
| 11/9/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
[entering single missed day at year end.] Zero precip; obs temp = 40.9° 24hr: 37.4/65.7° |
| 11/10/2011 |
8:40 AM |
T |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Cloudy, 57.4° 24hr: 40.9/61.4° The "T" occurred during a very light, very brief shower just before 9pm last night. If I had not been outside, I would have reported 0.0 as the gauge is empty this morning. |
| 11/11/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.16 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 36.2° 24hr: 34.9/63.4° |
| 11/12/2011 |
8:00 AM |
T |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 34.9° 24hr: 32.8/42.1° A few very brief drops yesterday afternoon. |
| 11/13/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Cloudy, 38.0° 24hr: 32.2/52.9° |
| 11/14/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 52.2° 24hr: 38.0 [yesterday a.m.'s reset]/52.7° It's really odd to still see small patches of snow in the shadiest areas where it had been plowed, this many days after a "first snowfall of the season." And temps certainly have re-bound... |
| 11/15/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 57.4° 24hr: 52.2/63.9° Still able to harvest swiss chard and garlic greens for dinner this far into November --without cover! |
| 11/16/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.02 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 51.3° 24hr: 49.3/61.7° Very short, light showers on and off yesterday totaling 0.02" |
| 11/17/2011 |
8:00 AM |
1.02 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 39.2° 24hr: 39.1/55.1° |
| 11/18/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, breezy, 32.6° 24hr: 28.6/40.1° |
| 11/19/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, with thin, high clouds, 36.9° 24hr: 30.1/42.7° Thin layer of ice on the pond this morning. |
| 11/20/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 45.5° 24hr: 36.9 [yesterday's a.m. reset] /49.1° |
| 11/21/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.03 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Partly cloudy, 45.5° 24hr: 45.5/60.8° Rainfall overnight was so light I didn't even hear it coming down: 0.03" Beautiful warm days for garden clean-ups continue... |
| 11/22/2011 |
7:30 AM |
0.07 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Drizzle, 36.9° 24hr: 35.8/50.9° |
| 11/23/2011 |
8:00 AM |
2.11 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 41.0° 24hr: 36.9/44.1° Heavy rain overnight; blew the small Christmas tree out of the front oak barrel. Basement pump is on. |
| 11/24/2011 |
8:40 AM |
0.04 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Beautiful Thanksgiving morning, sunny, 35.1° 24hr: 30.6/42.3° Will be harvesting garlic greens and swiss chard for the table today. Most years the garden has "gone by" entirely by Thanksgiving... |
| 11/25/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 43.4° 24hr: 35.1/50.9° |
| 11/26/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, with high, thin clouds, 38.2° 24hr: 36.9/58.1° With soil temps still so warm I did the unthinkable: moved some perennials yesterday. VERY unusual to attempt this so late in November. (Some years the ground has already been frozen by this time and the lake is iced-over.) |
| 11/27/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Partly cloudy, 45.9° 24hr: 31.9/60.5° Downright balmy day yesterday, like the other uncharacteristically "November" days we've had this month. |
| 11/28/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 52.7° with heavy dew. 24hr: 45.5/58.1° |
| 11/29/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.03 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 54.4° 24hr: 45.4/61.4° A brief pocket of very heavy rain moved through just after 7am. Actually looking forward to colder weather; the ticks have been awful on the dogs this Fall. Found one on me & now on doxycyline. A good freeze will be welcome! |
| 11/30/2011 |
8:00 AM |
1.07 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Partly cloudy, 39.8° 24hr: 39.6/59.9° Half of November had high temps of 55° or higher -very unusual. Total rainfall: 4.55" almost all of it resulting from three very heavy rainfall days. |
| 12/1/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 31.7° 24hr: 29.9/45.5° |
| 12/2/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 28.4° 24hr: 25.9/44.1° The pond had a layer of ice on it this morning, but even with the return of colder weather, we still got three ticks off the dog this morning. |
| 12/3/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 28.3 with heavy frost. 24hr: 27.2/46.8° Pond is frozen over again. |
| 12/4/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 31.1° with heavy frost. 24hr: 28.3/45.2° Lots of birds trying to find water around the edges of the frozen pond this morning. |
| 12/5/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 44.6° with heavy condensation on everything. 24hr: 31.1 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /50.2° |
| 12/6/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.07 |
M |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 54.2° 24hr: 44.6/59.2° Amazingly warm! |
| 12/7/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.85 |
M |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Light rain, 44.8° 24hr: 44.3/57.1° |
| 12/8/2011 |
8:00 AM |
2.03 |
T |
M |
T |
M |
Sunny, windy, 31.1° 24hr: 29.0/49.1° The very light dusting of snow after changing over from heavy rain last night is now frozen solid. Impossible to take a snowboard sample. Gauge contents partially frozen & snow on one side of the tube had to be scraped down to include in total. Very strong winds last night. Windsock blown across the yard; Christmas tree blown out of the oak barrel. Basement pumps on. |
| 12/9/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
T |
M |
Sunny with some high, thin clouds, and heavy frost, 27.5° 24hr: 26.5/38.0° The light covering of snow that occurred at the end of yesterday's storm is still on approx 50% of the ground. |
| 12/10/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Mostly sunny, 33.3° 24hr: 27.5/43.4° Tiny patches of thin snow remain in only the most shady areas. Had to thaw the soil in the oak barrel yesterday to put back in the Christmas tree that had been blown out of it during the storm! |
| 12/11/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 23.2° 24hr: 19.6/35.8° With temps finally getting more seasonable maybe we'll finally see an end to the incredible number of ticks we've been finding daily on the dog! |
| 12/12/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, calm, 21.8° with frost. 24hr: 20.0/34.9° |
| 12/13/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 25.9° 24hr: 21.8/40.9° |
| 12/14/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 33.3° 24hr: 25.9/41.4° Thin clouds + a very bright moon obscured the Geminids last night; only saw one in the forty minutes I was out meteor watching. |
| 12/15/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 42.7° 24hr: 33.3 [yesterday a.m.'s reset]/ 49.1° |
| 12/16/2011 |
8:45 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 37.3° 24hr: 36.2/51.5° Wind is winding down. It was brutal in the hours before and after dawn. Thawed pond is full of leaves; windsock blown down (AGAIN!); surprised the small Christmas tree wasn't blown out of the oak barrel out front again. The rain came through in one quick burst around 8pm; rained hard and am surprised there is only 0.01" in the gauge this morning. Wind/evaporation?? |
| 12/17/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Mostly sunny, calm, with high thin cloud cover, 30.1° 24hr: 28.3/41.2° |
| 12/18/2011 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Mostly sunny, 17.8° 24hr: 16.0/37/4° Several batches of snow flurries moved through during the day yesterday --a nice touch to the lake's tree lighting ceremony early last evening. |
| 12/19/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Partly cloudy, 29.3° 24hr: 16.4/29.3° A hawk showed up at the birdfeeder yesterday late afternoon. With the colder weather, the feeder HAD been a very active place, until the hawk showed up. |
| 12/20/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 37.3° 24hr: 29.3/43.0° |
| 12/21/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.19 |
T |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Moderately heavy rain, 41.9° 24hr: 34.6/42.1° When rain started yesterday at approx 6:30pm it was a mix, but quickly changed to all rain and stayed that way. Shortly after 8am obs the rain stopped. (MG note: based on above, set "NA" new snow to "T". Edited 12/21) |
| 12/22/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.28 |
M |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Mostly sunny, 44.1° 24hr: 42.1/54.2° A heavy downpour at approx 9:30pm produced a lot of this reported precip. |
| 12/23/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.52 |
M |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Cloudy, 40.1° 24hr: 39.4/50.9° |
| 12/24/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 24.7° 24hr: 22.5/41.6° NOW it's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas! Charter boats were still out catching striped bass & tuna yesterday out of the Highlands; they're usually down off OBX by this time of the year. An early Christmas present for the fishermen in the family! |
| 12/25/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 29.7° 24hr: 18.7/31.9° Merry Christmas to all! |
| 12/26/2011 |
9:10 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Mostly sunny, windy, 38.3° 24hr: 29.7 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /40.5°
|
| 12/27/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 34.0° 24hr: 25.7/39.4° This year was able to harvest Swiss Chard, re-sprouted parsley, and re-sprouted garlic greens for the Christmas dinner table, something I'm delighted to be able to do on Thanksgiving! The 34 acre lake is still all open water; no iceskating for the kids over this winter break... |
| 12/28/2011 |
8:00 AM |
1.43 |
M |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 36.9° 24hr: 34.0/51.7° Rain began here shortly after noon. |
| 12/29/2011 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 18.7° 24hr: 16.9/40.7° A few snow flurries late yesterday morning; nothing in the gauge or on the ground this morning. |
| 12/30/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Cloudy, 33.7° 24hr: 18.7 [yesterday am's reset /33.7° [current temp]. |
| 12/31/2011 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Foggy, 35.8° 24hr: 33.7 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /46.6° Cannot see the mountain tops on the west side of the lake through the low cloud cover.
Onward ... to 2012! |
| 1/1/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 31.5° with frost. 24hr: 30.2/48.4° The green shoots of Snowdrop bulbs are sticking out. Uh-oh. Also, yesterday afternoon observed swarms of flying insects. Odd end of December weather, for sure. Happy New Year to all! |
| 1/2/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.07 |
M |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 30.1° 24hr: 29.5/50.0° Setting up my next edition of The Ten Year Garden Journal & totaled precip for last year: 87.84" Multiple basement floods were testament to an exceptionally wet year. |
| 1/3/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
T |
M |
T |
M |
Sunny, windy, 19.4° 24hr: 19.3/38.2° A few flurries early yesterday afternoon, but the light covering occurred around 11pm last night. Melted gauge total just barely 0.01" |
| 1/4/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny & cold, 8.3° 24hr: 5.9/22.5° Only managed to stay outside for 25 minutes last night watching the meteor shower, in one corner of our patio, sheltered from the wind. Saw some good ones around 3am. The August Perseids are much more civilized for stargazing! |
| 1/5/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 23.9° 24hr: 8.1/24.3° I noticed the helpful tip from another volunteer yesterday about entering the degree symbol; if you use a MAC, you get that symbol by entering SHIFT + ALT + asterik (the symbol on any keyboard over the number 8). |
| 1/6/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 31.3° 24hr: 23.9 [yesterday a.m.'s reset]/ 35.8° |
| 1/7/2012 |
9:30 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 46.6° 24hr: 31.1° [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /47.5° |
| 1/8/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 35.1° 24hr: 31.9/54.9° The children's park at the end of our road was filled with people yesterday, enjoying the incredibly warm day. Flying insects out, too. Snowdrop bulbs now have the very tops of the flower in tight bud at the soil line: uh-oh. |
| 1/9/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, with high, thin clouds, 23.6° 24hr: 23.6/39.8° |
| 1/10/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 31.1° 24hr: 23.6/39.1° Cut up our Christmas tree to use branches to cover borderline perennials. The lack of snowcover and mostly above average temps punctuated by the day it got down to 5.9° can be very hard on them. |
| 1/11/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 23.9° with frost. 24hr: 23.0/41.2° Frost on the lawn looked like diamonds in the low, early morning sunlight. Nice pattern on the gauge, too! Got some great photos of a Cooper's Hawk hunting at our bird feeder yesterday. Not exactly the kind of bird I thought I was feeding.... |
| 1/12/2012 |
8:00 AM |
1.10 |
M |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Raining, 38.3° 24hr: 23.9/44.5° Started as a rain/snow mix around 8pm last night, but appears to have been an all-rain event from then on. Raining hard up to and during obs, but it slowed down now. The 1.10" usually does not cause the standing water that's out there now, so the ground must be frozen, despite the fairly warm temps we've had so far this winter. |
| 1/13/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.20 |
T |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Snowing, 34.7° 24hr: 34.7/41.8° Light rain was mixing with snow at obs, now its all snow. I decided to see if the drops on the inside of the gauge were negligible or not. 1st measured the gauge contents: 0.18"; then scraped down the drops with a silicone spatula and measured it: 0.02! Reporting the total: 0.20" and wonder if winter obs (without the funnel and inner tube) have been under-reporting precip? |
| 1/14/2012 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
T |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 22.5° 24hr: 21.6/34.7° Beginning at 9:25am and lasting approx 5 minutes: a burst of graupel that quickly covered the ground. But it sure wasn't "soft" hail; the banging on the windows was loud! This morning there is nothing left on the ground, but a layer of it in the bottom of the gauge. The largest piece is 1/8" in diameter. |
| 1/15/2012 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 8.6° 24hr: 8.1/27.5° Ties lowest temp of this winter so far. Several rounds of snow flurries yesterday; nothing on the ground. |
| 1/16/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 9.5° 24hr: 6.5/20.3° (lowest temp so far this winter). With no snow cover and everything frozen solid, I put a bowl of water out for the birds, who had be trying to peck at the edges of our frozen pond. The bowl turned out to be a very popular place, but it started to freeze in less than 1/2 hour. |
| 1/17/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.04 |
T |
M |
T |
M |
Overcast, 33.5° 24hr: 9.5 [yesterday am's reset]/ 33.5° [current temp]. A thin glaze of ice on everything; no snow. Our young, blind Golden did a "Bambi on ice" on the patio going out this morning!
|
| 1/18/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.08 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, windy, 31.9° 24hr: 31.1/45.7° Some small limbs are down in the yard. Must have stayed warm during the overnight since despite the obs temp, the precip in the gauge is liquid. |
| 1/19/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Mostly sunny, 12.2° 24hr: 9.7/34.0° Beautiful, delicate shaped frost crystals on the gauge and the wooden post this morning: tiny spears, circles, and sunbursts all over. |
| 1/20/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 17.6° 24hr: 12.2/30.8° Better go pull out our snow blower and dust off the snowboard.... |
| 1/21/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.30 |
3.0 |
0.30 |
3.0 |
0.30 |
Moderate snow, 18.5° 24hr:17.5/26.5° 0.29" in gauge; 0.30" on snowboard; reporting snowboard amount. Amazing to finally get the "ten to one" ration that everyone says occurs with snow to SWE. Almost never happens here! |
| 1/22/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.19 |
2.6 |
0.18 |
5.5 |
M |
Sunny, 11.7° 24hr: 6.8/24.1° "Squeeky" sound walking on the snow to the gauge. Took snowboard measurement and core sample last night at 5:50pm after the snow had stoppped to avoid settling and/or blowing snow. All snow event here with storm total = 5.6" |
| 1/23/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.02 |
T |
M |
5.0 |
M |
Freezing drizzle, 31.9° 24hr: 11.7 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /31.9° [current temp]. Fine drizzle has coated iron railings, etc. A "T" of snow was also in the gauge. |
| 1/24/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.41 |
M |
M |
T |
M |
Lingering fog, 36.2° 24hr: 31.9 [yesterday's a.m. reset] /44.5° Snowpack really disappeared overnight! Some remains in the shadier areas of the yard and wherever snow had been shoveled/plowed, --approx 1/4 ground surface retains snow/slush. |
| 1/25/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
T |
M |
Overcast, 32.2° 24hr: 31.9/45.5° A few shrinking snow piles persist. |
| 1/26/2012 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
T |
M |
Just started, a very light, very fine snow, 31.7° 24hr:30.1/38.7° |
| 1/27/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.50 |
T |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Raining, 43.2° 24hr: 31.1/43.2° Yesterday brought The Trifecta of winter precipitation: snow for a while after obs time, changed to sleet, then rain, then freezing rain after dinner. Roads had been salted but getting across the stone patio was very dicey. Ground very soggy, with large areas of the yard holding standing water. (0.50" is not rounded.) |
| 1/28/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.18 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 32.6° 24hr: 31.9/52.4° Must have been very windy overnight; patio furniture covers blew off & winsock + rod were blown across the yard. Reporting 0 snow on ground even though there are a few sad piles still around where it had been plowed/shoveled. |
| 1/29/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 27.9° 24hr: 26.5/42.7° Really strong winds last night. We're going to have to figure out a better way to lash down the patio furniture covers; they've been blowing off all winter this year! Wind + cold + no snow cover can also be trouble for plants. |
| 1/30/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 27.7° 24hr: 27.2/41.2° Wind calming down after another blustery night. |
| 1/31/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 33.8° 24hr: 27.0/37.6° Birdsong this morning! Total precip for January = 3.10" |
| 2/1/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.03 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Cloudy, 44.8° 24hr: 33.8/52.7° Amazing temps to begin February... |
| 2/2/2012 |
8:00 AM |
T |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 32.9° 24hr: 31.9/56.7° Although the gauge was empty, there were sprinkles yesterday morning, so I reported a "T." Both ends of the lake are wide open and ice-free. |
| 2/3/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 27.2° 24hr: 25.2/40.7° |
| 2/4/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 28.4° 24hr: 26.8/40.5° More bird song this morning... |
| 2/5/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Cloudy, 26.5° 24hr: 25.7/43.0° Saw a frog swimming through a section of marsh on the Applalachian Trail yesterday. Odd winter.... |
| 2/6/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 27.4° 24hr: 25.4/39.1° |
| 2/7/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Partly cloudy, 34.9° 24hr: 27.5/48.8° |
| 2/8/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 26.8° 24hr: 26.1/43.9° Snowdrops are up and in tight bud -waiting for the first day of sun to open. Lots of birdsong. |
| 2/9/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.02 |
0.2 |
0.03 |
T |
0.03 |
Sunny, 26.3° with a light dusting of snow. 24hr: 24.5/39.8° Very light, fine snow began at 4pm, by 5pm was really coming down, and shortly after, was gone. |
| 2/10/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
T |
M |
Sunny, 25.4° 24hr: 24.5/42.7° Light dusting remains in the shady parts of the yard. First snowdrops opened yesterday. |
| 2/11/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.05 |
0.2 |
0.04 |
T |
0.04 |
Very light snow, 31.1° 24hr: 25.4/42.3° Light covering on almost all surfaces. |
| 2/12/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.02 |
T |
M |
T |
0.06 |
Partly sunny, 17.5° 24hr: 13.5/38.7° The fresh area of the snowboard had too little snow to measure/melt; the 0.02" is from the gauge. The 0.06" is from a "Y-T-D section" of the snowboard. Light dusting on the ground on most surfaces. |
| 2/13/2012 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
T |
0.05 |
Sunny, 23.6° 24hr: 17.1/28.3° Most of the "T" occurred during late afternoon snow squalls. The SWE was measured from the undisturbed part of the snowboard. Light dusting remains on most grassy surfaces. |
| 2/14/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 30.8° 24hr: 23.6/40.9° Reporting "0" as the snowcover is almost entirely gone, except for small patches in the shadiest areas. Cardinals joined the birdsong this morning. Happy Valentine's! |
| 2/15/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.04 |
T |
M |
T |
M |
Overcast, 33.7° 24hr: 30.8/47.9° A mix of rain and snow last evening and overnight left a light dusting at obs time, but it will likely be gone soon. |
| 2/16/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 29.7° 24hr: 25.0/44.1° Very heavy condensation in/on the gauge amounted to just under 0.01" but I reported "0" because it is frost, not precipitation. Hope there's less cloud cover tonite for the ISS flyover! |
| 2/17/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.22 |
T |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Partly cloudy, 38.3° 24hr: 29.5/38.3° Stayed snow here until 1pm, covering the ground. When it changed over to rain all the snow was washed away quickly. |
| 2/18/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 29.7° 24hr: 26.6/46.1° |
| 2/19/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.03 |
T |
M |
T |
M |
Sunny, 29.7° 24hr: 27.7/47.2° Snow began around 4pm & changed over to rain. This morning there is a dusting of snow on all grass covered surfaces. |
| 2/20/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
0.00 |
Mostly sunny, 27.7° 24hr: 25.6/43.4° Drifts of snowdrops in bloom look lovely in pond garden! |
| 2/21/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 29.9° 24hr: 18.9/42.7° Began preparing the vegetable garden beds for the 2012 season. After last summer's soggy season, this year I selected varieties that do well in dry growing conditions. We'll see... |
| 2/22/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 39.6° 24hr: 30.1/48.4° The sap was really running in the maple trees yesterday; squirrels were lapping it up like crazy! |
| 2/23/2012 |
8:00 AM |
T |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Mostly sunny, 45.0° 24hr: 38.3/54.5° A brief light rain early last evening, but there was nothing in the gauge this morning. |
| 2/24/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.39 |
0.7 |
0.35 |
0.5 |
0.35 |
Misting, 32.0° 24hr: 31.9/50.6° Sorry I didn't measure the snow before it compacted to basically slush. Town plows only getting to our roads now. Heard sleet at approx. 4am. Despite snowcover, bird song is growing more numerous each morning, so Spring is definitely winning! |
| 2/25/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.23 |
T |
M |
T |
M |
Sunny, windy, 33.3° 24hr: 31.1/36.5° Contents of the gauge half frozen & the 1/4" of snow remaining on the ground has a frozen crust. Rained hard between 5 - 6pm, then thick fog settled in between 8 -9:30pm. So thick I sent in a Significant Weather Report. |
| 2/26/2012 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 27.0° 24hr: 22.7/39.8° A batch of snow flurries in the morning and several snow squalls in the afternoon were not evident in the gauge this morning. A thin, crunchy covering of snow remains on the ground in the shadier parts of the yard. |
| 2/27/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 25.4° 24hr: 21.1/39.8° Crunchy snow remains in shady patches around the yard. |
| 2/28/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Partly cloudy, 34.7° 24hr: 25.9/54.4° Bright cardinal song this morning... |
| 2/29/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 33.5° 24hr: 29.0°/45.5° Able to begin mucking out the pond yesterday, surface ice-free. Among all the drifts of snowdrops in the pond garden, noticed a single lone crocus in bloom. First of the year! Last year at this time this garden was still under 2 1/2-3' of snow/ice. |
| 3/1/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.43 |
0.6 |
M |
T |
M |
Overcast, 34.0° 24hr: 32.6/35.1° Snow began at 10am, covered by noon to 0.6", before mixing with sleet at 12:50pm. All rain late afternoon and overnight left only approx 1/3 ground snowcovered this morning. Total precip for February was 1.03" here and no melting snowpack. |
| 3/2/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 31.3° 24hr: 31.1/36.9° |
| 3/3/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.23 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Extremely fine mist, 40.1° 24hr: 31.3 [yesterday a.m.'s reset]/40.1 [current temp]. |
| 3/4/2012 |
8:00 AM |
T |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Cloudy, 34.0° 24hr: 30.8/53.5° The "T" was from rain that occurred shortly after obs time yesterday. The rest of the day was a "10" for an early spring day. |
| 3/5/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
0.00 |
Sunny, 27.0° 24hr: 24.1/41.9° Pond garden is awash in drifts of snowdrops, with a lone, first crocus in bloom. |
| 3/6/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 22.1° 24hr: 19.1/41.2° Yesterday afternoon maple sap "icicles" were hanging from the limbs of the front maple that we had to prune this winter (due to damage from the October snowstorm). |
| 3/7/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 34.2° 24hr: 22.1/42.3° A huge flock of geese honking as they flew northward overhead this morning. |
| 3/8/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Cloudy, 51.3° 24hr: 34.4 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /61.2° It's been a long time since the day started with a 50°+ temperature! |
| 3/9/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.26 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Partly cloudy, windy, 33.3° 24hr: 33.3/71.1° Back to reality! |
| 3/10/2012 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, breezy, 25.4° 24hr: 22.3/46.4° Nothing in the gauge this morning but I was outside at 4:30pm when a doosie of a snowquall passed through = "T". |
| 3/11/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 37.3° 24hr: 25.4/40.5° Crocuses blooming now, too. |
| 3/12/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
0.00 |
Hazy sun, 38.0° 24hr: 37.3/59.2° Used the Significant Weather Report at 7:30pm to report a wildfire on the mountain between Route 23 and Route 517. It seemed to cover a large area of forest. After we got home we kept an eye on the ridgeline on the west shore of our lake, since the W/SW wind would have spread the fire in our direction. |
| 3/13/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.02 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 52.6° 24hr: 38.2/71.3° First robins spotted this morning! (Although I'm told the REAL bird species to watch for the arrival of spring are Red Winged Blackbirds. But spotting a robin is still exciting!) Snowdrops and crocuses are lovely; all other bulbs are just showing green tops up an inch or two. Only forsythias blooming here are the vaseful on the table that I'd forced in mid-February! |
| 3/14/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 46.8° 24hr: 45.2/72.2° This morning is A Perfect Ten, warm, birdsong, and a half moon riding low in the clear, blue skies in the south-west. |
| 3/15/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 39.1° 24hr: 36.2/66.2° |
| 3/16/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Drizzling, 41.4° 24hr: 39.2/57.1° |
| 3/17/2012 |
8:00 AM |
T |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, foggy, 44.5° 24hr: 39.8/59.9° Not sure whether to report "0" or a "T." There were 2 drops in the gauge this morning but I don't believe it rained; this could be the result of heavy condensation on the gauge and on everything else. Took out the hose to water some Fall transplants & setting up drip irrigation for the veggie beds. Planning for a dry 2012. |
| 3/18/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast with moderate fog, 42.7° 24hr: 42.7/68.6° Drops of condensation are dripping off the maple tries. Dry everywhere else. All week the mosquitos have been awful; strange as early as March, and for such a dry early Spring. |
| 3/19/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Cloudy, 52.7° 24hr: 42.7/70.2° Daffodils and forsythia still have not bloomed yet despite yesterday's 70° temps. More than half way through the month of March with only 0.96" of rain M-T-D. |
| 3/20/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Moderate fog & heavy condensation on everything, 52.4° 24hr: 46.6/77.6° A lot of thunder/dark skies past just to our west yesterday around 5pm. |
| 3/21/2012 |
8:00 AM |
T |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Fog, with very fine, light drizzle, 55.6° 24hr: 52.4/74.3° Not sure if this is condensation from the fog or actual precip. 3 drops in gauge (I put back the inner tube and funnel yesterday). Toads singing and mating in the pond; first blooms of the forsythia. I heard a lawnmower going in the neighborhood yesterday!! |
| 3/22/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Foggy, 55.4° 24hr: 50.2/67.9° Light drizzle continued yesterday morning past TOR. Out on the lake yesterday afternoon & painted turtles are out already and geese are sitting on nests. Some years we've had to cut holes in the ice in order to stock fish for the opening day of trout season! Not this year... |
| 3/23/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 58.1° with heavy dew. Hoping for rain. I've never had to water spring bulbs before! Ground is quite dusty. |
| 3/24/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 53.8° 24hr: 50.4/74.7° Snowdrops & crocus have gone by; hyacinths and daffodils beginning to bloom. Forsythia in full bloom now. Ground very, very dry. |
| 3/25/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
A very light drizzle, 40.9° 24hr: 40.1/63.5° Unfortunately, yesterday's rain missed us entirely. Light precip just began this morning. |
| 3/26/2012 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Partly cloudy, windy, 46.3° 24hr: 40.7/61.9° The "T" was the few lingering drizzles after yesterday a.m.'s TOR. The gauge was empty this morning. Heard the first strong wind gust at 6am. |
| 3/27/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 24.5° 24hr: 23.2/49.1° Icicles hanging off the pond waterfall this morning. |
| 3/28/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly cloudy, breezy, 42.7° 24hr: 24.5 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /52.4° |
| 3/29/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.09 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, windy, 43.4° 24hr: 42.7/65.7° Rain, thunder & lightning moved through between 11:15am and 1:15pm. A lot of noise, but only 0.09" rain. This is getting ridiculous. Hope more arrives with Friday night's forecast... |
| 3/30/2012 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 33.1° 24hr: 32.9/52.0° |
| 3/31/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.35 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Fine drizzle, 35.1° 24hr: 33.1/58.7° Only 1.45" of rain total for March; compared to 9.25" last year and 7.56" in 2010. While worrying about a challenging growing season ahead -my perennial plant orders started arriving! Thank goodness for the overnight's 0.35." It is parched out there! |
| 4/1/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 40.9° 24hr: 35.1/41.0° First sign the Spring of bear activity last night; one knocked our potting table off the patio trying, we assume, to climb up on it to reach a nearby birdfeeder. Because of bears, we hang them very, very high, so he was not successful. |
| 4/2/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.44 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly sunny, 35.5° 24hr: 34.0/49.0° |
| 4/3/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, breezy, 35.6° 24hr: 32.2/55.1° Covered newly planted perennials, but didn't carry in pots of forced tulips and daffodils that are just ready to open -with any luck: on Easter! |
| 4/4/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, breezy, 46.6° 24hr: 35.6 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /62.8° More sounds of lawnmowers around the neighborhood yesterday. |
| 4/5/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 36.5° 24hr: 33.7/64.1° Nice to see that the wind has dropped back some. |
| 4/6/2012 |
7:30 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 31.9° 24hr: 29.9/56.0° |
| 4/7/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 36.9° 24hr: 30.4/57.2° Continued dry means watering new plants/shrub additions and last Fall's transplants. Windy + dry = serious trouble for plants! |
| 4/8/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, breezy, 43.7° 24hr: 36.9/59.2° Two large potfuls of cream colored tulips in full bloom on the porch steps: Happy Easter! |
| 4/9/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, windy, 44.6° 24hr: 41.6/66.1° |
| 4/10/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, breezy, 42.7° 24hr: 39.2/62.8° Dry days continue. Yesterday's roaring wind all day made me wonder: Is this what the beginning days of The Dust Bowl looked like to the people then? |
| 4/11/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 39.8° 24hr: 36.4/57.1° Was surprised to see 0.02" in the gauge this morning. Only observed two very limited precips, the first at 11:15am and the other around 6pm, but they didn't even wet all surfaces. |
| 4/12/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 39.8° 24hr: 36.0/51.3° Set out the cool crops (lettuces, kale, etc.) yesterday under cover. Will have to double cover tonite with the freeze warning... |
| 4/13/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 36.9° 24hr: 32.9/57.8° |
| 4/14/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 39.2° 24hr: 33.5/65.7° Forsythias just now going past peak bloom, adding green leaves to the show. Tulips are gorgeous! Allergies are the worst! :-) |
| 4/15/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 57.1° 24hr: 39.2/71.5° Two brief shots of rain: on around 9pm, the second around 1am, together totaling 0.03" We need RAIN! |
| 4/16/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 62.8° 24hr: 51.8/75.6° Continuing to deep water new plants and transplants. Even very sturdy perennials (hostas, daylillies, lirope) are beginning to show the effects of the prolonged dry Spring. |
| 4/17/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, windy, 61.8° 24hr: 59.9/88.9° The last two night a chorus of toads have been singing in the pond; this is the "second batch." First batch arrived 3/20 & left lots of egg stringers, but no evidence of tadpoles later. Usual arrival in the pond: single digits April, one year as late as 4/13. Hope this batch is successful... |
| 4/18/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Partly cloudy, 44.8° 24hr: 41.9/76.5° Certainly hope the weekend forecast holds and we get some much needed rain!! With half of April gone, we've rec'd only 0.56" here this month. So much for "April showers .... " |
| 4/19/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 50.6° 24hr: 44.6/59.9° Yesterday was such a tease! For a lot of the day it looked like it could rain any second. But nothing -again! Just dust and pollen in the gauge this morning. |
| 4/20/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 55.1° 24hr: 43.7/75.8° Same old, same old. Zero rain; dust and pollen in the gauge instead. |
| 4/21/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly sunny, 60.3° 24hr: 54.2/73.6° |
| 4/22/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.45 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 45.5° 24hr: 45.4/77.6° Some rain! The entire day was warm, with building dark clouds, and the rain finally arriving at 8pm. Lightning & thunder & wind after 10pm for a few minutes. Thankfully, the top layer of ground is now "pre-moistened" in advance of today's forecast heavier rains, so it will sink in and not just run off. Happy Earth Day, all... |
| 4/23/2012 |
8:00 AM |
2.06 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Drizzling, 43.7° 24hr: 38.7/48.4° 2.06" at this morning's reading, plus 0.45" the day before = 2.51" total for this system. Much needed! |
| 4/24/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.05 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly sunny, breezy, 39.1° with clouds whipping out of the west. 24hr: 36.5/51.1° |
| 4/25/2012 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 36.9° 24hr: 31.9/57.1° Don't you just love Frost Advisories that are posted in the morning, after it's too late to do anything about it in the garden?? |
| 4/26/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 40.5° 24hr: 32.6/59.9° |
| 4/27/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 42.5° 24hr: 40.5/62.3° Happily, time to prepare today for tonite's freeze warning. |
| 4/28/2012 |
7:10 AM |
0.01 |
T |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, with some high, light clouds, 34.0° 24hr: 32.4/47.0° Between TOR and 9:50am the temps dropped 7 degrees, and the rain turned to sleet, then snow squalls. Did not last long; the rest of the day was windy and cold. The yard looks like Halloween this morning, with sheets over tomato cages covering transplants and tender vegetation! |
| 4/29/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 44.1° 24hr: 34.0 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /61.2° |
| 4/30/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 41.4° 24hr: 31.1/62.8° Total precipitation for the month of April (rain plus one, brief snowsquall on 4/28) = 3.15" |
| 5/1/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.32 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Light rain, 48.6° 24hr: 41.2/65.0° Approx 4am heavy rain & thunder. Saw a Rose-breasted Grosbeak yesterday while setting out tomatoes --under cover only this early in the season! |
| 5/2/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Fog giving way to drizzle beginning right before TOR, 49.0° 24hr: 48.4/72.9° Most of the 0.01" was the result of lingering showers after yesterday morning's TOR. Peepers back in the pond last night. Hope this batch is more successful than the early Spring mating; hardly any tadpoles from that. |
| 5/3/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.65 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Misting, 49.1° 24hr: 47.0/52.2° Quite a thunderstorm came through at approx 1am with over a half hour of heavy rain. |
| 5/4/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.61 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 55.8° 24hr: 49.1 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /66.8° A doosey of a thunderstorm rolled through between 4:45 and 5:50am. Constant lightning, heavy rain, and thunder that shook the whole house. |
| 5/5/2012 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Foggy, 58.7° 24hr: 55.6/80.5° The first 80*+ of the season. Not sure whether to report 0 or T, as I'm pretty sure the trace in the gauge was the result of condensation from all of the fog. |
| 5/6/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Light fog, 52.4° 24hr: 49.9/71.1° |
| 5/7/2012 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 54.0° 24hr: 46.3/68.6° I reported a "T" because there was a single drop in the bottom of the gauge, but it could have been condensation. I did not see/hear rain. |
| 5/8/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.04 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 52.7° 24hr: 50.2/64.6° |
| 5/9/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.25 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Foggy, 58.9° 24hr: 52.7 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /62.5° Beginning to set out plants and fill planters and patio pots; never having done it as early as single-digits May before. But 7-day forecast shows no overnight temps under 40° so here's hoping it's correct. |
| 5/10/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.23 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Partly cloudy, 52.7° 24hr: 50.4/72.0° I cannot believe the number of maple tree "helicopters" falling and covering the yard! Like we don't already have a bumper crop of chipmunks and squirrels to deal with. I saw a chipmunk collecting maple seeds who's cheeks were packed bigger than his body size! |
| 5/11/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 49.9° 24hr: 39.2/59.9° Nothing in the gauge this morning except more maple tree "helicopters." Ash trees leafing out. |
| 5/12/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Gorgeous sunny morning, 51.1° 24hr: 41.2/69.3° |
| 5/13/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 65.0° 24hr: 51.1 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /74.7° Again, nothing but maple tree 'helicopters' in the gauge |
| 5/14/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 60.7° 24hr: 56.7/77.2° At 4:30am our entire neighborhood was awakened by an extremely loud ROAR! With daylight it appears that the electric fence I'd installed to keep out the woodchucks and rabbits, is also effective against extremely large black bears (judging by the sound before dawn and the footprints there now). |
| 5/15/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.63 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 58.9° 24hr: 58.5/69.7° |
| 5/16/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.31 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 62.8° 24hr: 58.9/64.6° Storm total (2 days) =0.94" |
| 5/17/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, crisp morning, 53.8° 24hr: 47.0/77.6° Around 3am a front moved through and it flipped from warm & humid to gorgeous. The great sleeping weather was interrupted at 4:30am by a big bear bouncing around our bear resistant garbage can out in the road. |
| 5/18/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 52.4° 24hr: 43.2/70.7° |
| 5/19/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 59.4° 24hr: 42.7/70.7° |
| 5/20/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 54.9° 24hr: 47.7/77.9° |
| 5/21/2012 |
7:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 57.8° 24hr: 54.9/79.0° Feels as if the rain could begin any minute. |
| 5/22/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.89 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Raining, 59.9° 24hr: 56.7/61.7° Surprised it was only 0.89" -rain was very heavy at times. |
| 5/23/2012 |
7:00 AM |
0.05 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 62.8° 24hr: 59.9/70.0° |
| 5/24/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.15 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Foggy, 62.5° 24hr: 61.2/75.8° Heard rolling thunder in the distance several times yesterday afternoon, but most of the action seemed to be to our south. |
| 5/25/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.04 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Light fog, 61.0° 24hr: 58.9/66.4° Return of the slugs, one pest I didn't think I'd be dealing with as much this gardening season! |
| 5/26/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, heavy dew, 74.3° 24hr: 59.9/74.3° Internet connection down this morning so the report was delayed until 11:12am. |
| 5/27/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.13 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 63.7° 24hr: 61.4/82.8° The 0.13" came during afternoon T-storms; we seemed to get the edge of the storms. Put in a window A/C and used it for the first time, so H-U-M-I-D yesterday! |
| 5/28/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 69.3° 24hr: 63.5/78.7° Rain resulted from T-storm that rolled through after 9pm, again with most of the storm moving next to us. Lots of lightening, but no thunder, and just a little rain. |
| 5/29/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 74.3° 24hr: 69.3/83.5° Woke up to windows 'raining' on the inside from the condensation with the room A/C on. Heavy dew this morning & a steamy start to the day. |
| 5/30/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.23 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 67.5° 24hr: 64.3/86.9° T-storm with vivid lightning came through last night around 6pm; surprised there was only 0.23" in the gauge this morning. |
| 5/31/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 63.9° 24hr: 58.5/77.2° Total rain for May here: 4.63" Big improvement over the DRY first four months of the year. |
| 6/1/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Crisp, sunny morning with a few puffy clouds, 60.5° 24hr: 51.7/74.5° |
| 6/2/2012 |
8:00 AM |
1.44 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 60.8° 24hr: 56.7/70.7° The heavy rain that occurred around midnight was so hard and so steady that I was surprised there was only 1.44" this morning. I guess that's why they make rain gauges! |
| 6/3/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 63.2° 24hr: 47.7/69.8° Nothing but a beetle in the gauge this morning. |
| 6/4/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.19 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Raining, 54.2° 24hr: 52.0/71.1° |
| 6/5/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.42 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Partly cloudy, 54.2° 24hr: 44.8/60.3° Odd for June 4th: enjoyed a nice fire in the fireplace last evening; both dogs thought it was a great idea, too. |
| 6/6/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, crisp morning, with heavy dew, 54.5° 24hr: 44.5/63.5° Not sure whether to report a "T" or zero due to the very heavy condensation in the gauge and on everything else. Since I did not observe rain at any time yesterday (a few bouts with very, very dark clouds) I'm reporting "0." |
| 6/7/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.19 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, with some high, thin clouds, 58.1° 24hr: 51.3/69.7° Rain started after 8pm with the sound of distant thunder. |
| 6/8/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 61.4° 24hr: 51.7/72.0° While driving across the county yesterday afternoon, I saw a shelf cloud to the south and small patches of very dark clouds. By the gauge reading this morning, it must have missed this location. |
| 6/9/2012 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 59.9° 24hr: 56.3/77.2° A few light sprinkles last evening around 7pm. |
| 6/10/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 67.3° 24hr: 59.9/74.7° Some sprinkles around dinner time; if we hadn't been outside on the patio I probably would have missed it. Probably more overnight to account for the 0.01" in the gauge. |
| 6/11/2012 |
8:00 AM |
1.16 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 63.9° 24hr: 61.2/79.0° I've never seen rain here like we got yesterday: 0.99" in fifteen minutes! Sent in SWR at 5:15pm. It looked like all of the storms were going to miss us with very dark clouds to our north, when at 4:55pm it started to smell like rain, then the wind came up, the distant thunder got closer, and then the sky opened up. Our side yard (where the gauge is) was under water & all of the mulch in the pond and herb gardens were washed into the pond, which overflowed. Intense T & L. Surprised after it passed there wasn't a rainbow... |
| 6/12/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 63.0° 24hr: 59.2/75.6° Hope today's forecast rain does not turn into the deluge we had here Sunday; the pond clarity finally cleared up after having soil and mulch from several gardens washed into it during the late afternoon T-storm. |
| 6/13/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.52 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 61.7° 24hr: 59.6/68.2° Rained on and off all day yesterday, but it resulted in only 0.52" of rain. No watering needed for the first half of June! |
| 6/14/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, breezy, 62.3° 24hr: 55.1/73.6° I did not observe rain yesterday and unless it occurred overnight, this 0.01" might be condensation? |
| 6/15/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, humid, 61.9° 24hr: 54.9/73.6° |
| 6/16/2012 |
9:10 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Beautiful sunny morning, 70.0° 24hr: 51.8/75.1° |
| 6/17/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 61.4° 24hr: 58.0/77.0° |
| 6/18/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 56.0° 24hr: 52.0/68.9° With 90°s forecast here later in the week have been deep watering new plantings/transplants. |
| 6/19/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 62.1° 24hr: 56.0 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /68.6° This is going to be a challenging gardening year. We are OVER-RUN with chipmunks and rabbits! Last year it was foxes; this year not a fox to be seen.... |
| 6/20/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, warm & humid, 74.3° 24hr: 62.1 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /74.7°
Heavy dew. |
| 6/21/2012 |
6:20 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, humid, with heavy dew, 68.6° 24hr: 68.0/88.6° |
| 6/22/2012 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, humid, 71.8° 24hr: 68.6/88.7° A few drops falling on my way out to the gauge this morning; if I had not been outside at the time, I would have missed the trace of rain. |
| 6/23/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.17 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 67.5° 24hr: 59.9/86.6° Most of the thunderstorms went around us yesterday afternoon, but one dumped the 0.17". Spectacular lightning to our NE after 4pm. |
| 6/24/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
[Edited 6/27/12] |
| 6/25/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.14 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Raining, 60.8° 24hr: 54.4/79.4° First roll of thunder at 7:27am. |
| 6/26/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.25 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 57.1° 24hr: 52.4/72.7° The 2012 tadpoles have left the pond as tiny toads and are migrating out into the gardens and lawn. |
| 6/27/2012 |
7:30 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 59.9° 24hr: 53.8/68.2° Beautiful morning with low humidity and a slight breeze. |
| 6/28/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Partly cloudy, 65.3° 24hr: 56.7/76.7° Yesterday was the kind of summer day that winter dreams are made of! And the "light show" early in the evening with the fireflys has been spectacular for weeks. |
| 6/29/2012 |
6:15 AM |
0.10 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 65.7° 24hr: 63.9/81.4° A TNDRSM moved thru at 4:30am leaving the 0.10" of rain. |
| 6/30/2012 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 71.3° 24hr: 63.0/86.6° A total of 4.62" of rain for June here. |
| 7/1/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 74.3° 24hr: 63.5/86.4° Yesterday around dinner time it sure looked like rain; at one point the winds picked up and it even smelled like rain. But no rain & by 8pm the skies cleared and a clear moonrise. |
| 7/2/2012 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 68.9° 24hr: 58.5/86.9° About 4pm yesterday dark clouds and rolling thunder moved first, to our north, and then to our south. The second pass came with wind and I could see rain at the ballfield (1/4 mi. away) but all we had here were sun-showers resulting in the "T." |
| 7/3/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 67.0° 24hr: 58.5/81.5° Happily, the low voltage electric wire we'd installed around the veggie beds is working nicely with a bumper crop of rabbits and groundhogs this year. Unfortunately, it's 'powerless' against the equally numerous chipmunks! |
| 7/4/2012 |
7:30 AM |
0.05 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, clearing, 67.7° 24hr: 67.0°/83.0° The rain must have come through recently; it's still dripping under the large maple trees. |
| 7/5/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, humid, 75.8° 24hr: 67.9 [yesterday a.m.'s reset?] /85.1° Took our dog out on the lake in the kayak yesterday for a swim & couldn't believe how warm the water is. This morning it was "raining" inside the bedroom windows due to condensation from the A/C. |
| 7/6/2012 |
7:30 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 62.8° with morning dew. 24hr: 57.8/86.8° A large black bear walked through the front yard at midnight. Normally they're so quiet that you wouldn't even know they were there unless the dogs bark; but last night the dogs were too hot to bother, and you could HEAR the bear panting loudly! |
| 7/7/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, humid, 74.7° 24hr: 62.8 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /85.1° The small streams that feed our lake from the surrounding watershed are dry. |
| 7/8/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, still, 71.8° 24hr: 68.0/89.5° Coming home from Bethel Woods last night around midnight drove through torrential rains and continuous lightning (no thunder) for miles just south of High Point. Hopeful that we would finally get measurable rain here; but this morning's 0.01" showed yet another storm missed had us. |
| 7/9/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Partly cloudy, 67.7° 24hr: 62.8/84.8° |
| 7/10/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 65.0° 24hr: 56.0/81.7° We have a drain outside our basement door that let's us look down and see the height of the water table. We can't see anything these days so it's got to be very, very low. |
| 7/11/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.15 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 65.0° 24hr: 60.7/82.6° Only 0.15" last evening, not enough to make a dent in the dryness of the ground. Will need to continue deep watering the new plantings ... |
| 7/12/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 63.7° 24hr: 58.5/83.7° A pop up shower yesterday afternoon; didn't even wet the ground under the large maple trees. |
| 7/13/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Very hazy sun, calm, 72.0° 24hr: 63.9/83.7° |
| 7/14/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 65.3° 24hr: 64.8/82.8° Whatever isn't being watered is a crispy critter. Some established perennials are browning out; when I watered the astilbies yesterday the water hitting the leaves actually made a crunching sound! Halfway through July and only 0.26" of rain. |
| 7/15/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 73.8° 24hr: 65.3/81.0° Rain this morning in several surrounding towns, but none here. When we finally do get some rain, I hope it starts gently because the soil is incredibly parched now. |
| 7/16/2012 |
7:30 AM |
0.43 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, steamy, 69.3° 24hr: 66.6/84.2° Finally! A decent rain! And even better, before the moderate rainfall arrived in the evening, there were two earlier afternoon "attempts" with brief showers, so the top layer of ground was moistened a bit to accept the heavier rains. |
| 7/17/2012 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly sunny, very hazy, sticky, 71.1° 24hr: 63.5/83.0° Not sure what the few drops were in the gauge this morning. I didn't observe rain at any time; and there was bird poo in the funnel. Was going to report zero, leaning toward the theory that the liquid was NOT precipitation! |
| 7/18/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Partly cloudy, 75.8° 24hr: 71.1/88.7° It's very, very rare for night-time temps here to stay above 70° -being at 1,100' but last night was one of those nights... |
| 7/19/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.92 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 67.9° 24hr: 666.2/93.4° Impressive rain. Sent 2 SWRs yesterday afternoon; rain (and thunder & lightning) coming down in sheets. Temps exceeded 90° before the storms, which is very unusual for us here at 1,100' (we start whinning about 'excessive heat' in the 80°s). In the surrounding area yesterday: trees down, parts of Routes 94 and 23 closed, Shoprite on back-up generators, and a commute home from NYC delayed because the subways were flooded! |
| 7/20/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.26 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Light rain, 61.9° 24hr: 61.9/74.3° Some periods of very heavy rain between daybreak and TOR this morning. Nice article on CoCoRaHS in yesterday's NJ.com! |
| 7/21/2012 |
7:30 AM |
0.66 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 61.4 24hr: 59.0/65.3° |
| 7/22/2012 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly sunny, 74.2° 24hr: 57.1/75.1° Was away from home yesterday, so not sure whether the reported "T" is actual precipitation, or heavy dew. |
| 7/23/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 69.3° 24hr: 64.1/77.6° Most of the tomatoes are still green, but the harvest of salad greens, cukes, zukes, and pole beans continues strong. The low voltage electric fencing is working so far against woodchucks, rabbits, and even deer. Not so much chipmunks! |
| 7/24/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.30 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly sunny, 74.7° 24hr: 65.7/82.6° We just got the edge of two strong batches of thunderstorms yesterday; the first went to our north, leaving only light rain and the sound of frequent rolling thunder. The second went to our south-west; the thunder in that one was louder and the rain a little heavier. Total = 0.30" |
| 7/25/2012 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 64.6° 24hr: 58.1/84.4° A beautiful, crisp morning. Yesterday around dinnertime we caught the edge of yet another passing storm; literally a few drops, just visible on the slate for a minute or two. |
| 7/26/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.08 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 65.0° 24hr: 61.7/77.2° Showers briefly came through around 6am and are resuming now, after the TOR. Distant thunder while sending this report, so this round will probably be more than just showers! |
| 7/27/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.85 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 69.8° 24hr: 63.9/81.5° Storm blasted through here around 6pm, with strong winds, lots of T & L, and very heavy rain. Heaviest over in an hour; sent in SWR with total at that point of 0.74" Additional 0.11" from 8pm to 8am reading. |
| 7/28/2012 |
7:30 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, humid, 69.3° with some condensation in the gauge. 24hr: 66.4/81.0° It sure seemed a lot warmer than 81° yesterday! |
| 7/29/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.94 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 65.7° 24hr: 63.5/78.7° 0.60" of this 0.94" occurred in the first half hour that the storm blew in (2pm). Lots of crashing L & T and extremely heavy rain. After the heaviest rain passed, sent SWR. Power went out for a while this morning, right before time of reporting. Restored quickly. |
| 7/30/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 66° Battery died in our indoor/outdoors min/max thermometer, so no 24hr with this report! Up until the middle of July we were very concerned about drought; now with 4.45" in the last half of July, we're worried with too much rain! Cracking tomatoes and fungal diseases showing up in the gardens. |
| 7/31/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 66.4° 24hr: 63.9/78.7° Total rain for July reporting = 4.71" Unfortunately, not spread out evenly. Extremely dry/hot first half of July; very wet 2nd half. Never thought I'd be whining about TOO MUCH rain! |
| 8/1/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.06 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly cloudy, really sticky, 69.3° 24hr: 63.9/78.3° Lost power for approx one half hour this morning. |
| 8/2/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 70.6° with heavy dew. 24 hr low: 61.4° Several times yesterday afternoon the skies looked threatening, but it never rained here. Radar looked really active to our SE. |
| 8/3/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 72.4° 24hr: 62.8/82.3° |
| 8/4/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 77.2° 24hr: 65.7/84.4° Feels like it's going to be an oppressively hot one today... |
| 8/5/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 76.3° 24hr: 71.8/86.0° Yesterday was certainly a warm one! |
| 8/6/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.66 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly sunny, 70.4° 24hr: 68.3/84.6° We were in a strong T-storm across the border in Warwick, NY at about 3pm; tossed table umbrellas around & sent everyone running indoors. Thought we'd come home to dinner outdoors on the patio, but a/the storm blasted through here between 5-6pm with strong winds, flickering power and 0.66" |
| 8/7/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 65.7° 24hr: 57.1/77.9° There were two drops in the gauge this morning, but by the looks of the gauge and the gardens, I'm pretty sure that it's condensation from very heavy dew. The "summer of extremes" was too much for many of the annuals in pots and planters on the patio and steps. Replanted most of them yesterday. |
| 8/8/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 70.7° with heavy dew. 24hr: 61.7/80.1° |
| 8/9/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 74.3° 24hr: 65.5/82.4° Cicadids really buzzing this morning! |
| 8/10/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, very humid, 73.6° 24hr: 69.3/85.5° |
| 8/11/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.68 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 72.9° 24hr: 68.2/74.3° A bit of thunder as the storm approached late morning yesterday, but here it was just heavy rain. |
| 8/12/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly sunny, 68.6° 24hr: 66.4/84.4° The 0.01" arrived with the edge of a brief T-storm passing by after dinner. A few drops and it moved on. |
| 8/13/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, light breeze, 70.0° 24hr: 62.8/78.7° Beautiful morning! Out at 2am to see if the sky was clear enough to catch any of the Perseids; only one, but the night skies and crickets chirping made for a lovely August night. |
| 8/14/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 66.4° 24hr: 59.9/80.1° Moderate morning dew. |
| 8/15/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.17 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 73.3° 24hr: 65.0/74.0° Light rain most of yesterday morning resulted in the 0.17". Total precip for the first half of August is 1.61" with lots of mornings with heavy morning dew. |
| 8/16/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.18 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, breezy, 65.7° 24hr: 63.0/81.5° A PM T-storm yesterday seemed to go SE of here, leaving 0.18" of rain. Encouraged by the past weeks frequent rain I've begun moving around perennials in the garden. |
| 8/17/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sun weakly shinning through a thick hazy cloud cover, 67.5° 24hr: 59.9/78.7° Very heavy dew in the gauge this morning; if I hadn't been here all day yesterday and observed no rain, I would have reported a "T." |
| 8/18/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.78 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Partly sunny, 66.4° 24hr: 62.5/81.5° Just before 6pm last evening we began hearing thunder. It thundered for an hour before the rain arrived just before 7pm. 0.78" = a good watering for all the transplanted perennials I'd moved around the last two days! |
| 8/19/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Very hazy sun, 60.3° with heavy dew. 24hr: 52.4/73.6° |
| 8/20/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun through high clouds, 63.5° 24hr: 54.9/74.2° Most of yesterday afternoon it looked like rain, felt like rain, but stayed dry here. |
| 8/21/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.15 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Beautiful sunny morning, 63.7° 24hr: 59.9/75.2° Light rain began here last night around 8:30pm. |
| 8/22/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 59.6° with very heavy dew. 24hr: 56.5/78.8° |
| 8/23/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 63.5° 24hr: 59.4/77.2° Five consecutive days in a row with overnight temps in the 50°s. Dog Days are over, hopefully, for another year. |
| 8/24/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun with thin, high clouds, and heavy dew, 61.4° 24hr: 59.0/83.0° |
| 8/25/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Faint hazy sun through thickening clouds, 64.3° 24hr: 61.4/80.3° |
| 8/26/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly sunny, breezy, 66.4° 24hr: 61.0/83.7° A very light, extremely brief rain began as the wind came up at 5:20pm. |
| 8/27/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 68.9° 24hr: 65.0/78.7° Feels like rain is on its way... |
| 8/28/2012 |
7:45 AM |
0.07 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, breezy, 70.7° with what looks like clearing skies. 24hr: 68.9/81.7° Bedroom windows entirely fogged this morning from the A/C. |
| 8/29/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny morning, 64.1° with not a cloud in the sky. 24hr: 57.2/79.9° |
| 8/30/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Beautiful clear, crisp, sunny morning, 60.5° 24hr: 51.7/74.3° |
| 8/31/2012 |
4:30 PM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
[Was away for a family funeral "down the shore" --the reason for the late time of observation and reporting today, and the lack of min/max temps.]
|
| 9/1/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 70.0° 48hr: 60.7.85.0° Total rain here for August = 2.80" |
| 9/2/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 70.0° 24hr: 65.7/84.1 |
| 9/3/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Very fine drizzle, 67.5° 24hr: 67.1/79.0° Took photos for the project yesterday of our desiccated Japanese Maples; and impatiens destroyed by this year's impatien fungus blight. Quite a challenging gardening year... |
| 9/4/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.23 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Rain ending, 68.6° 24hr: 65.7/72.9° All day it threatened rain, with widely separated, brief periods of extremely light drizzle; the kind that you can just feel on your face if you're outside, but doesn't even get the ground wet. The real rain began after 5pm. |
| 9/5/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.98 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 73.3° 24hr: 68.4/77.0° First time in a long time I've come close to a "gauge topper" here: 0.98" Tropical. The band that came through after 9pm included lots of lightning & thunder & rain, and even a tornado warning. |
| 9/6/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.33 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 64.3° 24hr: 60.5/75.2° Yesterday afternoon finally cleared out to be a great, clear, breezy partly cloudy day. Was surprised to see it back to humid and still this morning. |
| 9/7/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 69.3° with heavy dew. 24hr: 64.1/78.3° |
| 9/8/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 70.0° 24hr: 67.5/81.7° After reading the gauge at obs time and letting the dogs out, it a very fine drizzle started. That will show up on tomorrow's report! |
| 9/9/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.91 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Gorgeous clear, crisp morning with bright sun, 61.7° 24hr: 57.1/82.1° Thunder could be heard in the west at 4:20pm yesterday; heavy rain and wind began at 4:30pm. Intense part of the storm didn't last long. |
| 9/10/2012 |
10:00 AM |
0.07 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 63.4° 24hr: 51.3/71.7° 0.07" isn't a lot of rain, but it can sure screw up the last phase of yesterday's deck staining project! |
| 9/11/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny with very heavy dew, 50.6° 24hr: 46.1/65.7° The two drops in the gauge this morning were from condensation I'm pretty sure. |
| 9/12/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 51.3° with heavy morning dew. 24hr: 48.1/76.5° |
| 9/13/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 56.0° with morning dew. 24hr: 51.3 [yesterday a.m.'s reset]/72.9° Great painting weather... |
| 9/14/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 58.1° with morning dew. 24hr: 54.0/74.3° |
| 9/15/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, breezy, 59.2° 24hr: 55.1/77.0° The wind picked up around 3:30am and the rain followed briefly. Surprised there was only 0.01" in the gauge this morning. |
| 9/16/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 54.2° 24hr: 46.6/67.5° Only bird poo in the gauge this morning... |
| 9/17/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Partly cloudy, 50.6° with heavy dew. 24hr: 47.0/74.3° |
| 9/18/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.60 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Raining with occasional gusts of wind, 66.4° 24hr: 50.6/71.5° Rain started at about 4am. Perfect timing; finished the final touches on the house painting project yesterday morning. A great stretch of warm, dry days this week! |
| 9/19/2012 |
8:00 AM |
2.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, breezy, 54.2° 24hr: 53.8/70.9° Only 0.39" from yesterday's OBS @ 8am to 5:30pm -just before the heavy stuff arrived. An additional 1.64" after that SWR and today's 8am OBS. It was windy, but nothing approaching the forecast wind speeds. Thank God. Two day rain total for this storm = 2.63" |
| 9/20/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny and quite cool, 47.7° 24hr: 44.5/63.2° Glad I started to bring in plants that need to be wintered over inside. Real snap of Fall in the air this morning! |
| 9/21/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, breezy, 57.8° 24hr: 47.7 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /65.0° Total rain for the first 3 weeks of September here = 5.18" Getting my snowboard ready! |
| 9/22/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, breezy, 59.9° 24hr: 57.8/74.3° |
| 9/23/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.08 |
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Sunny, crisp morning, 53.8° 24hr: 50.6/71.8° Showers moved through around 4pm, putting a damper on the first day of Oktoberfest at Crystal Springs. Strong storms never occurred with the front's passage. |
| 9/24/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
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Partly cloudy, 49.9° 24hr: 45.7/65.2° With the possibility of patchy frost forecast last night, we carried in the last of the plants that will over-winter indoors. Patio area looks so bare now! |
| 9/25/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
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Sunny, 45.5° with heavy dew. 24hr: 44.1/60.1° A couple of drops in the gauge this morning, pretty sure from condensation. A couple of the maple tree leaves are beginning to turn red. |
| 9/26/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.02 |
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Overcast, 59.9° 24hr: 45.5/65.9° |
| 9/27/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.07 |
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Light rain, 62.1° 24hr: 59.9/68.6° An awful lot of dreary, gray, soggy skies for only 0.07"! Though the top layer of ground was getting pretty dry... |
| 9/28/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.54 |
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Overcast, 60.8° 24hr: 55.8/69.3° Cloud cover so low I can't see the tops of the mountain across the lake. And after the showers cleared out yesterday morning, the rest of the day was beautiful. Rained extremely hard between 5-5:30am. |
| 9/29/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.52 |
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Light drizzle, 55.3° 24hr: 54.9/61.6° |
| 9/30/2012 |
8:00 AM |
0.03 |
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Cloudy, 53.8° 24hr: 50.8/60.1° Total rain for September: 6.44"; a wet start to Fall for sure. |