August 2018 was similar in many respects to July. Temperature averages were just about the same, and both July and August were wet months. In fact, the wettest day of each month both fell on the 21st of the month (4.02” on 7/21, 3.92” on 8/21). August had 6 days with max temps of 90° or greater and July had 8, but August didn’t have the 5 days in a row heat wave at the beginning of the month like…
Sunday was cloudy and even cooler with steady rain falling most of the day (1.04″) from a LOW presssure system to my SW and riding along that stalled frontal boundary. Temperatures did not vary much all day and were the coolest of the season so far. Rain fell from around 0600 to 2100, with the max rain rate of 1.32″/hour @ 1020. Sunday’s max temperature was 61.8° at 1501 Sunday’s min temperature was 58.1° at 0824. Dew point temperatures…
Saturday was cloudy and cooler due to a front moving south of the area, stalling out as a stationary front with the resultant moist/cool marine flow persisting all day. 0.11″ of light rain fell between 0500-0600 (total for the day). Saturday’s max temperature was 73.5° at 1007. Saturday’s min temperature was 60.6° at 2322. Dew point temperatures ranged from a high of 71° @ 0439 down to a low of 55° @ 1852. Relative humidity values ranged from a high of…
Friday was mostly cloudy and cooler than Thursday due to a moist marine flow. No rain fell prior to midnight . Friday’s max temperature was 74.1° at 1803. Friday’s min temperature was 68.2° at 1116. Dew point temperatures ranged from a low of 65° @ 1009 up to a high of 70° @ 1704. Relative humidity values ranged from a high of 92% @ 0321 down to a low of 83% @ 1418. Barometric pressure ranged from a high of 30.23″ @ 0750 down to a low of…
Thursday was partly to mostly cloudy and a bit cooler than Wednesday due to the increase in cloudiness. No rain fell. Thursday’s max temperature was 80.7° at 1519. Wednesday’s min temperature was 67.1° at 0727. Dew point temperatures ranged from a low of 63° @ 0518 up to a high of 72° @ 1619. Relative humidity values ranged from a high of 93% @ 0904 down to a low of 72% @ 1519. Barometric pressure ranged from a low of…
My apologies for posting a misleading statement in my Tuesday report. I did not mean to imply any sort of inaccuracy of my VP2 tipping bucket rain gauge. My friend Marty made the necessary repairs/fixes and was 100% successful. My problem now is an old one, unwanted water in the bucket from the early AM sprinkling of the grounds around the bucket and throughout the grassy areas just out from my balcony. It does not occur every day – Wednesday…
My apologies for not pasting a daily blog report from my station since Tuesday, September 11. I have had problems with my VP2 and it has been down more than up over the past week. My friend Marty came over on Tuesday and got my VP2 station problems solved for the most part. The station data is running fine as of early Tuesday afternoon. Marty put in a new circuit board, and fixed the reed switch to enable the VP2…
Tuesday made its small contribution (0.28″) to our wet week, how wet will depend on what kind of initial visit we get at the end of the week from Hurricane Florence which looks more like it will mostly be out of round 2 early next week. A cloudy day, with brief showers midday (1205-1235, max rain rate 2.97″/hour @ 1220) and dense early AM fog that hung around till the showers came in, temperatures held in the muggy upper 60s…
Monday started what potentially may be quite a wet week, depending on what kind of visit we get at the end of the week from Hurricane Florence. A cloudy day, with occasional drizzle/light rain (.09″ daily total) and early AM fog, temperatures slowly crept through the 60s into the low 70s, as did the dew point. At what temperature does your condition description move from damp, to muggy, and then to humid? The Monday maximum temperature climbed to 71.4° @…
This past weekend, on both Saturday and Sunday, we spent most of our temperature time in the 60s (and a little bit into the low 70s and upper 50s), totally cloudy with off and on rain (total of 1.97″ over the weekend). The Saturday maximum temperature was 72.1° @ 0823, while the Saturday minimum temperature was 59.6° recorded @ 2359. The dew point temperatures lowered, ranging from a high of 71° @ 0720 down to a low of 58° @…