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2012 another warm, wet year
For the third year in a row, our temperatures and precipitation were above average. For the second year running, snowfall came in less than average. Our average high temperature in 2012 was 64.4 degrees and the average low temperature was 44.2 degrees. This put the year's overall temperature 2.7 degrees ...
December hat trick: warm, wet, white
December had it all . . .warmer than average temperatures, along with more precipitation and snow than usual. The month started very mild with a high of 64 degrees on December 4, but ended cold, with a low of 20 degrees on December 31. Overall, the milder temperatures won out, ...
Driest November on record
We started November on the wet side, with 0.15 inches of rain on the first day of the month. Only a quarter of an inch of rain fell the rest of the month, making for our driest November ever recorded. The 0.40 inches of rain was well below the old ...
Sandy makes October another wet month
October is typically our driest month of the year, with 2.36 inches of precipitation on average. Thanks to an assist from Hurricane Sandy, this was not a typical October. We received 4.30 inches of rain the last 5 days of October, pushing our total for the month to 5.36 inches, ...
A cool and wet September
September got off to a really wet start, with 3.95 inches of rain on the first day of the month, a record for the date. Rain exceeded an inch two more days in September, with 1.07 inches on September 18 and 1.66 inches on September 27. We ended up with ...
We dried out in August
After a very wet July, August dried out, with 17 dry days and 4 more days with only a trace of precipitation. Our wettest day was August 5, with 0.89 inches of rain. Severe thunderstorms were in the area only twice during the month, on August 8 and 9. We ...
Despite the rain, July simmered
July was our wettest month since the hurricane-remnant fueled month of September, 2004, when Frances and Ivan’s moisture helped dump 10.73 inches of rain into our rain gauge. Our rain gauge (and of course yours was probably different) collected 8.69 inches of rain in July, 4.94 inches above average. We ...
The heat was on in June
At least the nights were not warmer than average in June, but we heated up by day. Low temperatures in June averaged 58.2 degrees, right at normal. High temperatures came in at 81.7 degrees, nearly two degrees above average. We hit 90 degrees or above five times, including 97 on ...
May another warm month
This is shaping up as a very warm year. January was about 6 degrees warmer than average, and February came in nearly 5 degrees above normal. March was an incredible 11 degrees above average (probably our warmest March ever recorded), but April actually fell to about a half degree cooler ...
Mother's Day Fun Facts
Don't forget Mom as Mother’s Day is this Sunday! Mother’s Day Facts: 1st Mother’s Day: May 10, 1908; Founded by Anna Jarvis; made a national holiday in 1914 by President Wilson Busiest Phone Day: 68% of people plan to call Mom on Mother’s Day, totaling 122.5 million phone calls ...
April was cool and dry
For the first time in more than a year, we had a drier and cooler than average month. Back in January, 2011, temperatures were 2.8 degrees cooler than average and precipitation was about a half inch below normal. Temperatures during the recently concluded April came in about a half degree ...
Record heat in March
The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh reported that their average temperature in March was 51.5 degrees, the highest ever since record keeping began in 1871. Since our records began some 70 years after Pittsburgh’s, our 51.4 degree average temperature recorded in March has likely never been bested as well. ...
Historic Warm Stretch
The Mid-west and Eastern United States is currently experiencing a historic warmth episode that has never been experienced before. Locally this will be the 9th straight day with temperatures above 70 degrees in March as temperatures top out near 80 degrees for the second day in a row! Based on ...
Balancing an Egg On the Equinox: Fact or Fiction
Spring arrives Tuesday at 1:14 am with the Vernal Equinox although the weather we are currently experiencing makes it feel more like summer! It never fails this is the time of year that someone will send in a photo of an egg standing on end (and new this year brooms, ...
Balancing an Egg On the Equinox: Fact or Fiction
Spring arrives Tuesday at 1:14 am with the Vernal Equinox although the weather we are currently experiencing makes it feel more like summer! It never fails this is the time of year that someone will send in a photo of an egg standing on end (and new this year brooms, ...
Why is winter so cloudy?
Have you ever noticed how gloomy some winter days can be? As if the cold air wasn't enough, the clouds seem to never want to go away. Today's cloudy and cold weather is the perfect example (hence my motivation to write this blog)! Like anything else in life, there is ...
Mild weather continued in February
January was an unusual month, with above normal temperatures, precipitation, and snowfall. February came within a tenth of an inch of snow of duplicating that feat. Our average high temperature in February was 43.4 degrees, four and a half degrees above average. Lows for February averaged 5.9 degrees above ...
Meteorlogical Spring Begins
We made it through winter! Today is the first day spring. Now you are probably looking at your calendar and saying to yourself… “Doesn’t spring start on March 20.” Yes, the vernal equinox is March 20, which is when we have 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of ...
Leap Day
Happy Leap Day! Why do we have leap years in the first place? We define a year to be the amount of time it takes for the Earth to make one complete orbit around the sun. A normal year is defined as 365 days. However, if you measure the exact ...
Live Look at a Bald Eagles Nest
I stumbled apon this site last year and its back again. The link takes you to a live camera that is set up overlooking a bald eagles nestin Decorah, Iowa. Free desktop streaming application by Ustream.
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