Warm and Sunny...In January!

Yesterday my mercury topped out over 60 degrees! That high mark at 3pm hit 62.2 and was a personal record for that date with my previous record high for a January 24th coming in at 57 degrees. We had several National Weather Service records fall around the area as well. A toasty warm day in January is not unprecedented, but it is unusual. This whole winter save for a few weeks of nippy cold, has been quite mild.

We still have two months of winter to go and you never know, it could turn chilly on us. Don't get too comfy in those shorts and tee-shirts just yet.

While we have go ahead and soak it up my friends, soak it up.

The Warm Winter Continues

I can't say if we will get cold again this year or not? Temps have been running consistently 5 plus degrees above normal and I don't see a change. You never know, and Arctic air mass could drop down from the North anytime. While we wait for that to happen, just get outside and soak it up my friends, soak it up. I am in the upper forties with big, bold sunshine beaming down from the heavens.

Happy New Year!

2015 has arrived! OK it is January second and I suppose you figured that out already. I would like to wish all of you a happy and prosperous new year.

December 2014 was a balmy month, I mean way above average on the temperatures. The observed average high for the last month of 2014 was 47.13 degrees nearly 5 above my 13 year average at this location. The observed average low last month was a toasty 37.79 more than five above my 13 year average. Hopefully I'll smile when I get my heating bill for December.

December started off by continuing a very chilly cold snap that ended November. The first two days of the month had lows of 19.7 and 21 respectively and daytime highs of 27.4 and 36.1. Hey it was December, no big deal. But then the next 26 days were essentially a winter heat wave! The month managed to close out properly as the 30th and 31st recorded lows of 20.4 and 18.6 respectively and highs in the mid thirties. Now that is more like winter.

The coldest low occurred on the last day of the month with that aforementioned 18.6 mark. That was no where near any records but legitimately chilly. The warmest temperature came on the 11th with 58.8 degrees. Well shy of my December record of 59.9 but the warmest December 11th I have yet to record at this location. The coldest daytime high temperature came on the very first day of the month with that 27.4 mark and the warmest overnight low occurred on the 21st. Longest night, warmest temp? That's weird; I didn't see that coming.

This last December was unusual in that I recorded 16 days where the low temperature was up in the 40s! I only had 5 days with a sub freezing mark and 5 days with highs below 40 degrees. well the jury doesn't have to deliberate long on this case, December 2014 was a warm month.

The rainfall was a little light for a December but a still adequate amount of 6.24 inches landed in the gauge. I tend to get around 8 inches in December. We had one really wet day where 1.15 inches splashed down on the 20th. The month was a bit cloudy overall with just 6 days of sunshine and 19 days with at least some rain.

December had a few bouts with wind as we did in November. I lost two fences this season!

Year end stats go like this...

Days lo<32	44
Days lo<20	5
Days lo>40	234
Days lo<50	221
Days lo>60	23
days hi>100	0
Days hi>90	13
Days hi>60	188
Days hi<50	80
Days hi<40	17
Days hi<32	5
Days sunny	158
Days rainy	139
Days Snow/Ice	9
Total Snowfall	12.20
Average Low	46.05
Average High	63.10
Max Temp	98.4
Min Temp	18.6
Wettest Day	2.01
Days >.24 Rain	64
Tot Precipitation	47.83

Get and soak it up my friends; soak it up.