Nothing spectacular here, but noteworthy stuff. I've been running my home weather station for about 1.5 years now and it's interesting to go back in history a bit (and the Weather Underground generates some cool graphs for personal weather stations).
The lowest temperature I recorded before this morning was 15.6°F in 2007. Thought for sure I would blow that record with the anticipated low of 10°F forecast for this morning, but it only bottomed out at 14.9°F. Still, a new record for my home.
The other cool record that happened today was the barometric pressure. I blew the old record set last year and have a new one of 30.84" at 1018 this morning! That's a really high pressure. Most home barometers only have a scale of 28.00 - 31.00 if that gives you a better idea. Apparently this is one powerful high pressure system on top of us right now.
Need to keep an eye on the weather for tomorrow morning. They are forecasting freezing rain and with lows in the low 20's tonight (and we've not been above freezing in at least 30 hours) that could really spell for disaster during the morning rush hour. No advisories issued yet from the NWS.
The lowest temperature I recorded before this morning was 15.6°F in 2007. Thought for sure I would blow that record with the anticipated low of 10°F forecast for this morning, but it only bottomed out at 14.9°F. Still, a new record for my home.
The other cool record that happened today was the barometric pressure. I blew the old record set last year and have a new one of 30.84" at 1018 this morning! That's a really high pressure. Most home barometers only have a scale of 28.00 - 31.00 if that gives you a better idea. Apparently this is one powerful high pressure system on top of us right now.
Need to keep an eye on the weather for tomorrow morning. They are forecasting freezing rain and with lows in the low 20's tonight (and we've not been above freezing in at least 30 hours) that could really spell for disaster during the morning rush hour. No advisories issued yet from the NWS.
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it is unusual that type of high makes it that far east, isn't it?
Edited at 2008-01-21 05:01 pm (UTC)
The sky is always Carolina blue. :)
What kind of weather station setup do you have? My hubby
Wanting see my weather data remotely I finally got the logging module from Davis that interfaces to this weather station and delivers data over a serial port. That was almost 2 years ago.
From there I picked up on Weather Display software that takes that data, logs it and will send to multiple other sites remotely. This includes a personal web site, NWS (they use it as supplemental data to their official weather stations), Weather Underground and many, many others.
Next step (maybe this year) is to get a lightning detector and participate in that network, but that's pricey. Very few lightning detectors in area are far and few and would help improve the accuracy a whole lot if there were more.
I don't know what your budget is, but there is something for everyone that will fit. The Davis equipment is high quality stuff, but it's not professional. So, it suited my budget and what I wanted (reliable and accurate weather instruments with remote logging capabilities). There are cheaper ones out there and wireless versions are a plenty making installation a snap.
I'll have to check out your hubby's profile for his meteorology geekness. :)
I, too, have my eye on the VP2, but maybe later in the year. Solar radiation? Yep, that's on my list too.
The weather station I covet (Do I hear Valentine's Day gift, sweetie? heh.) is this one:
http://www.weathershack.com/davis-instruments/davis-vantage-pro2.html
It would cost more than my computer did, however.
Weather for today in PS:
http://www.weatherunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=92264
which makes me miserable.
And now? No snow, temperatures linger around 50, summers blast past 100, storms, usually the best weather is in June, when I cannot really take any time off, stuff like that. And the second winter in a row without any snow at all.
Sucks big time.