| Observation Date |
Observation Time |
Precipitation |
Snowfall |
Snowfall SWE |
Snow Depth |
Snow SWE |
Notes |
| 10/1/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 56° 24hr: 55/71° |
| 10/2/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Light mist, 55° 24hr: 55/60° |
| 10/3/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 54° 24hr: 53/62° |
| 10/4/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.45 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Raining, 57° 24hr: 54/65° Rain is very much needed. |
| 10/5/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.44 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 40° 24hr: 38/61° First 30°s temp this season. Still harvesting cherry tomatoes, zucchini, lettuce, parsley, and pole beans. |
| 10/6/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 38° 24hr: 36/53° Yesterday afternoon while setting up a cold-frame over one of the veggie beds, heard a large flock of migrating geese going by overhead. Definitely Fall! |
| 10/7/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Partly cloudy, 54° 24hr: 38 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /62° Didn't know there was a frost warning here yesterday morning until I woke up and saw it had been cancelled. While not here, there was frost in two surrounding towns that I know of. |
| 10/8/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.18 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly sunny, breezy, 56° 24hr: 54/66° One bolt of lightning + thunder approx 1am; still cloudy during the lunar eclipse early this morning. Rats! |
| 10/9/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 46° 24hr: 45/63° |
| 10/10/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 44° 24hr: 42/60° |
| 10/11/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.13 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Raining, 47° 24hr: 44/55° |
| 10/12/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.14 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 38° 24hr: 36/55° Covered one of the veggie beds with a cold frame last night with the first frost forecast. Close, but not frost. |
| 10/13/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 48° 24hr: 38 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /55° Dew or precip? A "V" of honking geese flew overhead on my way out to the gauge this morning. One of the rhythms of Fall... |
| 10/14/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 61° 24hr: 51/61° |
| 10/15/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, very humid, 65° 24hr: 61/72° Again: is the 0.01" precip or dew? |
| 10/16/2014 |
7:30 AM |
2.11 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 64° with rain still dripping from the trees. 24hr: 64/71° Very heavy rain between 6am and 6:30am. Very tropical feel to the still air. |
| 10/17/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 52° 24hr: 52/64° The 0.02" is from "left-over" drizzles after yesterday's reading. |
| 10/18/2014 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 55° 24hr: 52/64° |
| 10/19/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, breezy, 44° 24hr: 44/62° |
| 10/20/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 35° 24hr: 34/47° No sign of frost on the usual suspects: car windows, roofs, etc. and no fluttering down of lots of remaining leaves; we'll see when the sun hits the garden. Elevation? |
| 10/21/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 47° 24hr: 35 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /56° Odd to see so much of NJ effected by yesterday's frost, and our garden here still chugging along. |
| 10/22/2014 |
8:00 AM |
1.33 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 48° 24hr: 47/57° Drove home yesterday through an impressive storm: heavy rain, thunder and bolts of lightning, followed by a beautiful rainbow at 5:06pm coming into Sussex County. |
| 10/23/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.54 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Light rain, 46° 24hr: 46/49° October seems to have flipped away from the very dry Aug & Sept rain amounts; just in time for winter... |
| 10/24/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.23 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, breezy, 45° 24hr: 44/48° Our winter bird residents are back & were chattering at me from the limb where I set up the feeder. Think it's too early because we still have bears around; but the chickadee and titmouse were pretty darned insistent! |
| 10/25/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 43° 24hr: 41/59° Garden still chugging along, despite the close call with frost the past week. |
| 10/26/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 47° 24hr: 43 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /61° Yesterday was a perfect end of October day: warm & sunny. Much better than snow-storms or hurricanes! |
| 10/27/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 42° 24hr: 42/55° |
| 10/28/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, with high, thin clouds, 42° 24hr: 39/57° We still have impatiens and other annual flowers blooming in the garden, and one maple tree is still entirely green and in full leaf. Odd. |
| 10/29/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 58° 24hr: 42 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /70° After a day like yesterday, going back to 'seasonal' is going to be jarring! |
| 10/30/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.09 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 37° 24hr: 37/63° |
| 10/31/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 31° 24hr: 31/49° Finally, our first frost! Ice on gauge, car-windshields, and took out the last of the zinnias, marigolds, and impatiens. Total rain for October: 5.80", more than August & September combined. |
| 11/1/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.09 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Light rain, 39° 24hr: 31 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /48° |
| 11/2/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.14 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, breezy, 35° 24/hr: 35/44° |
| 11/3/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 36° 24hr: 36/42° It was really blowing yesterday! Felt quite cold cleaning up the yard, putting Halloween things away, and getting ready for winter. |
| 11/4/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 46° 24hr: 36 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /59° A lot of leaves left to fall: oaks, mulberry, forsythia, and most perennials. |
| 11/5/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 53° 24hr: 46 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /63° The front yard maple is finally turning from green to bright yellow. Flowers still blooming in the window boxes against the house. Unusual November.. |
| 11/6/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.07 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Light rain, 44° 24hr: 44/58° |
| 11/7/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.14 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 41° 24hr: 40/46° Hope some of these leaves drop before the first snow arrives! |
| 11/8/2014 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 32° 24hr: 30/45° The "T" occurred shortly after 1pm with a brief, pelting rain mixed with some ice pellets that lasted about 15 minutes. |
| 11/9/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 41° 24hr: 32 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /44° Dug out the old snowboard and drilled a very small diameter hole in the center of it to insert a thin, white fiberglass stake. Will be easier to find in heavy snows and make sure core readings are on the board, not edge. |
| 11/10/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 31° 24hr: 30/51° Raking yesterday & pulled one tick off the dog and two ticks off me! |
| 11/11/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 49° with very heavy dew on everything. 24hr: 32 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /56° Reasonably sure this was not actual precipitation; not even a drop in the gauge, but flagstone patio, walkways, driveways are all wet. |
| 11/12/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 52° with very heavy dew. 24hr: 46/60° |
| 11/13/2014 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 34° 24hr: 31/60° A few fine drops fell around 11:30am yesterday. |
| 11/14/2014 |
7:30 AM |
0.28 |
2.8 |
0.28 |
2.0 |
M |
Sunny, 29° 24hr: 29/43° Good thing I had the snow-board set up to capture the first snow of the season. Unusual to have the board and gauge reading match, as there was a layer of ice at the bottom of the snowboard. Snowcover very uneven: patio and driveway had hardly any snow while the snow-board had 2.8" The gauge had a large rim of snow on top of it & this winter I'm changing my "flatening tool" from a paint-scraper to a kitchen board scraper; larger area worked very well this morning. |
| 11/15/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
0.00 |
1.0 |
0.22 |
Sunny, 27° 24hr: 25/37° Pond is frozen. 2.2" of snow remaining on the part of the snowboard I didn't clear yesterday, with a melted value of 0.22" Reported depth is average from around the yard. There was a frozen trace in the gauge this morning, but there was no precip yesterday, so reporting 0. It's from all the blowing snow falling out of the trees yesterday. |
| 11/16/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.5 |
M |
Overcast, 27° 24hr: 21/40° 2.1" of snow remains on uncleared portion of the snowboard. Some areas of open ground in sunniest places, but a lot of snow cover remains. Best guess at an average: 0.5" Pond still frozen. Looks like it could snow again any minute...
|
| 11/17/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.36 |
T |
M |
T |
M |
Light rain, 34° 24hr: 27 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /36° Snow flurries, then a little sleet around mid-day; sleet early evening, before changing over to rain. 1" of soggy snow still remains on snowboard; most of the ground snow has been washed away, although some still persists in forsythias and yews. |
| 11/18/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.36 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, brrreezy, 20° 24hr: 20/44° Now the snow is gone! Exact same precip amount as the day before, but this morning a frozen disk. |
| 11/19/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 15° 24hr: 14/28° Coldest so far of this season. Glad I got the bubbler in the pond before yesterday. |
| 11/20/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Mostly sunny, 27° 24hr: 15 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /30° |
| 11/21/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 21° 24hr: 20/39° Ice getting thicker in the pond, except for the small hole being kept open by the bubbler. Pond netting still up until the forsythia leaves finally fall. |
| 11/22/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, with a few high clouds, 22° 24hr: 16/31° |
| 11/23/2014 |
8:00 AM |
T |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 39° 24hr: 23 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /39° Noticed a "T" of cold rain showers fall between 5 -6pm. Ended quickly. |
| 11/24/2014 |
7:00 AM |
0.89 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 57° 24hr: 39 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /57° Downright balmy! |
| 11/25/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 48° 24hr: 48/65° Absolutely gorgeous day in NYC yesterday. Hard to believe it's Thanksgiving week. |
| 11/26/2014 |
7:45 AM |
0.04 |
T |
M |
T |
M |
Mix of rain & snow, 35° 24hr: 35/49° Slush in gauge and snow beginning to accumulate on lawns. |
| 11/27/2014 |
8:00 AM |
1.02 |
7.6 |
0.96 |
7.5 |
M |
Light snow, 30° 24hr: 29/35° 8" on the snowboard; average depth around the yard + 7.6" Likely higher due to overnight compaction. SWE from gauge: 1.02" & from board: 0.96" Small limbs down in our yard; a neighbor lost big limbs and an entire tree. Before Thanksgiving cooking begins, will try and unbend all of our shrubs & plants! |
| 11/28/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.03 |
0.1 |
M |
7.0 |
M |
Bright sun through snow-laden trees, 25° 24hr: 22/35° Continued to snow flurry most of the morning and afternoon, adding to the original snowfall still present in all the trees and shrubs (still there this morning!) Brief power outage at 12:25pm. Measured the 0.1" from the snowboard, but it was too little to get an accurate core measurement. Uncleared part of the snowboard measured 7.7" but I reported the average from there and samples from around the yard = 7.0" |
| 11/29/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
T |
M |
6.5 |
M |
Mostly sunny, 13° 24hr: 12/33° Yesterday some of the snow in the trees and on utility lines started blowing down; think that accounted for some of the 0.01" in the gauge. We had flurries, but not enough to register more than a "T." A lot of snow is still up there, and when it falls it doesn't "clomp" down, it flutters similar to actual snow. Going over Hamburg Mountain yesterday at 1pm, was in white out conditions on Route 23 as wind began blowing the snow from all the trees on the mountains down on the highway. Still measuring 7.0" on board; yard a little less. |
| 11/30/2014 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
5.5 |
M |
Sunny, 20° warmer, 33° 24hr: 13 [yesterday's a.m. reset] /33° 5.8" on uncleared part of snowboard. Snow fell from small tree limbs, but still up there on moderate to large limbs. 3.43" total for November, with 9 days of snow on the ground. So much for "NO sun. NO leaves. NO snow. NO-vember!" |
| 12/1/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.5 |
M |
Mostly sunny, 46° 24hr: 34 [yesterday a.m. reset] /46° Still 1.4" of snow on the board. Lawn has areas of 1" but also now patches of open ground, so I'm reporting 0.5" for snow on ground. Gone from the trees. |
| 12/2/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.03 |
0.0 |
M |
T |
M |
Cloudy, 28° 24hr: 27/54° Serious melt-off of snow cover yesterday! Approx 15 -20% snow remains, mainly in shaded areas. Board now clear and ready for another storm today.... |
| 12/3/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.35 |
T |
M |
T |
M |
Overcast, 38° 24hr: 28/38° Precip started here at 1:15pm as graupel, mixed with sleet and snow. Covered everything before eventually changing over to rain. Interesting: after measuring the liquid in the gauge this morning, I noticed all the drops remaining on the inside. "Because every drop counts" --I decided to scrape down the inside of the gauge (using a foot long plastic ruler) and measure that. Was surprised to find an "extra" 0.02" which I added to the reported #. |
| 12/4/2014 |
8:00 AM |
T |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Cloudy, 32° 24hr: 30/43° A few sprinkles yesterday, although there was nothing in the gauge this morning. The last piece of snow schlooshed off the north-facing part of our metal roof yesterday. Ground almost 100% snow-free. |
| 12/5/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Cloudy, 27° 24hr: 23/39° Individual "stars" and diamonds of frost on the gauge this morning. Between 7am and 8am three different flocks of geese were honking overhead as they flew southward. The late flyers.... |
| 12/6/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.53 |
T |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Light rain, 37° 24hr: 27/37° Started as sleet before 2pm but changed quickly to rain. Only snow on ground is small piles wherever it had been plowed or shoveled. |
| 12/7/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.89 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Cloudy, 30° 24hr: 29/42° |
| 12/8/2014 |
7:45 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Mostly sunny, 17° 24hr: 16/36° |
| 12/9/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.50 |
0.0 |
M |
T |
M |
Raining, 31° 24hr: 17 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /31° Thin layer of ice in all the trees, steps, patio, roofs, and cars. |
| 12/10/2014 |
7:45 AM |
0.50 |
T |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 32° 24hr: 31/35° Exactly the same amount of rain as the day before: 0.50" Brief snow flurries this morning while letting the dogs out. If I hadn't been outside at the time I would have missed it. |
| 12/11/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.21 |
2.0 |
0.21 |
2.0 |
0.21 |
Overcast, 26° 24hr: 25/33° Exactly the same amount of SWE from the gauge as on the board. |
| 12/12/2014 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
1.5 |
M |
Overcast, 26° 24hr: 25/34° A few very brief snow flurries yesterday morning. The snow remaining on the ground ranges from 1.6" on the uncleared portion of the snowboard through 0.9" in one spot on the lawn. Reported the average of four measurements. |
| 12/13/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
1.0 |
M |
Partly cloudy, 29° 24hr: 26/34° The roof and lawns still snow covered but with a new, very playful puppy, finding undisturbed spots to measure is getting difficult. I've fenced off the snowboard, so the snow remaining on the uncleared portion of the snowboard is 1.3" |
| 12/14/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.5 |
0.18 |
Cloudy, 33° 24hr: 29 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /35° A few patches of open ground appearing in snow cover. Took SWE at 4pm with forecast warm up approaching, and the ground under the snow wasn't frozen yet. First day of Audubon's Annual Christmas Bird Count. |
| 12/15/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
T |
M |
Finally! A sunny morning, 31° 24hr: 31/39° Substantial melt-off of existing snow cover; snow down to 20 - 25% |
| 12/16/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 33° 24hr: 27/44° A few patches of snow remain in shaded areas only. |
| 12/17/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.14 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 39° 24hr: 33 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /42° Surprised to see only 0.14" in the gauge this morning; it seemed as though it rained all night long.
|
| 12/18/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 31° 24hr: 31/46° Sap was dripping down yesterday from a large maple that suffered a badly cracked branch that's been hanging since the last snow/ice storm. Same storm that broke off a huge magnolia limb. |
| 12/19/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Cloudy. |
| 12/20/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 29° 48hr: 29/36° |
| 12/21/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
T |
M |
T |
M |
Lightly snowing, 27° 24hr: 26/28° Woke up to a covering of snow on all surfaces. Gauge melted to barely 0.01" Happy Solstice! And onward to increasing light... |
| 12/22/2014 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
T |
M |
Overcast, 30° 24hr: 27/31° A fresh dusting of snow overnight. We could clearly see "the elevation effect" of yesterday's snow when driving down Hamburg Mountain, both north and south. The snow-line ended less that a mile in each direction from the top of this ridge-line. Neither Franklin nor Oak Ridge had a covering, nor snow in the trees. |
| 12/23/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.15 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Light rain, 39° 24hr: 30/39° The magnolia branches that had fallen victim to the first ice/snow storm and dragged inside, are now in glorious bloom on the kitchen table. |
| 12/24/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.15 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Light rain, 42° 24hr: 39 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /43° Exact same precip amount as yesterday. |
| 12/25/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.31 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Cloudy, 42° 24hr: 42/58° Merry Christmas to all... |
| 12/26/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 32° 24hr: 32/45° |
| 12/27/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 32° 24hr: 31/45° How much a sunny day is appreciated after a string of gray ones! Yesterday the whole neighborhood was outside. |
| 12/28/2014 |
7:30 AM |
0.03 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Rain, 40° 24hr: 32 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /49° Replanting and re-mulching a few perennials that had frost heaved. Some parts of lawns are re-greening. |
| 12/29/2014 |
8:00 AM |
T |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Mostly sunny, 29° 24hr: 29/46° The gauge was empty this morning but I know some light rain continued for a while after yesterday's TOR. A light skim of ice back on the pond. |
| 12/30/2014 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 24° 24hr: 22/38° |
| 12/31/2014 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 20° 24hr: 18/38° Only the third overnight temp in the teens all month. Total precip for December = 3.81" Some snowflakes fell late morning and again early afternoon. |
| 1/1/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 18° 24hr: 16/28° A happy and productive 2015 to all! |
| 1/2/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Mostly clear, 29° 24hr: 18° [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /32° |
| 1/3/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 23° 24hr: 21/38° |
| 1/4/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.80 |
1.1 |
M |
T |
M |
Light rain, 38° 24hr: 23 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /38° Snow began yesterday at 11:55am, quickly covering and accumulating until the change over to sleet, and then rain. A covering of slush now. "New Snowfall" measurement taken as soon as I heard the sleet mixing in. |
| 1/5/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 31° 24hr: 31/47° Windy overnight. Surprised there was only a drop of rain in the gauge this morning, as there was a steady, light rain falling at 8pm when we got home. |
| 1/6/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Light snow, 15° 24hr: 13/31° Snow began just before TOR at 8am. |
| 1/7/2015 |
7:30 AM |
0.06 |
0.7 |
0.07 |
0.5 |
M |
Clear, calm, 13° 24hr: 10/20° Boots made that squeaky sound walking on snow that they only make in very cold weather. Beautiful just off-full moon setting over the western mountain just before the sunrise. |
| 1/8/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
T |
0.5 |
0.06 |
Sunny, calm, 2° 24hr: 0/20° Some flurries yesterday morning, and a snow squall early in the afternoon with accumulating snow. Strong winds blew if off the paths, blew the wind-sock out of the tree, and made finding a representative spot to measure difficult. |
| 1/9/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.02 |
0.5 |
0.03 |
1.0 |
M |
LIght snow, 16° 24hr: 2 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /18° Average sampling of snow on the ground = 0.8" Our new dog chewed the top off the inner tube overnight! New set on order. Puppies!! |
| 1/10/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.5 |
M |
Sunny, 8° 24hr: 8/28° |
| 1/11/2015 |
7:30 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.5 |
0.08 |
Sunny (but it's clouded up since OBS time), 15° 24hr: 8 [yesterday am's reset] /21° "Red sky at morning..." on the eastern horizon at 7:30am. Tried to find a representative spot to take the SWE core, but the 0.08" is higher than the past two days with no new snowfall, so it might have been from the drifting with the original storm. |
| 1/12/2015 |
7:30 AM |
0.02 |
0.0 |
M |
0.5 |
M |
Very light drizzle, with an ice glaze on all surfaces, 30° 24hr: 14 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /30° Heard sleet pelting the windows around 4am. |
| 1/13/2015 |
7:45 AM |
0.31 |
0.0 |
M |
T |
M |
Mostly sunny, 18° 24hr: 18/36° The remaining 'snow' is a sheet of ice, with a few bare spots of frozen ground showing through in spots. Broke out the Yak-Tracs yesterday! |
| 1/14/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
T |
M |
Cloudy, 11° 24hr: 8/24° |
| 1/15/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
T |
M |
Sunny, 19° 24hr: 11/26° Approx. 40% of the ground remains ice/snow covered. |
| 1/16/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
T |
M |
Mostly sunny, 24° 24hr: 19/31° Approx 20% of ground is still snow/ice covered. Clouding up now quickly between OBS & reporting time. |
| 1/17/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
T |
M |
Sunny, 10° 24hr: 9/35° Yesterday two different snow bands moved throught: one at 1pm the other around 3pm. The first was blizzard-like with heavy snow and high winds. Only lasted a few minutes. |
| 1/18/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Fine drizzle just beginning, 32° 24hr: 10/[yesterday a.m.'s reset] /32° The only way I knew it was beginning was by lifting my face up and feeling the drizzle. Everything including the gauge looked dry at the time. Rain picking up as I'm entering the report. |
| 1/19/2015 |
8:00 AM |
1.09 |
T |
M |
T |
M |
Cloudy, 31° 24hr: 30/39° Rain began yesterday right after gauge reading, and within 1/2 hour there was a dangerous glaze of ice on everything. As the day began to warm the ice melted on above-ground surfaces, but kept getting thicker on the ground. Woke to a dusting of snow. |
| 1/20/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 27° 24hr: 26/38° Two different snow bands moved through yesterday; the morning one started to accumulate. But everything was gone by the end of the day. |
| 1/21/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Mostly sunny, 15° 24hr: 15/33° Just a few patches of ice remain on the ground. |
| 1/22/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
T |
M |
Light snow, 23° 24hr: 15 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /31° Snow has just covered the ground; too little to measure. |
| 1/23/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
T |
M |
Sunny, 17° 24hr: 16/34° Reported snow is "leftover" continuing a few hours after yesterday morning's OBS. The snow in the gauge melted during the afternoon and the temps got just above freezing. Only frost on the gauge this morning. |
| 1/24/2015 |
7:30 AM |
0.73 |
7.0 |
0.68 |
7.0 |
M |
Changed to very light rain, 29° 24hr: 17/34° Going to be heavy to shovel this one: rain on top of deep snow! Reporting earlier than usual to catch snow depth before compaction. Changed back over to moderate snow between OBS & sending in this report. |
| 1/25/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.06 |
0.4 |
0.05 |
6.5 |
M |
Partly cloudy, 31° 24hr: 28/35° This report covers snow that continued after yesterday's 7:30am OBS. |
| 1/26/2015 |
7:30 AM |
0.04 |
0.3 |
0.04 |
7.0 |
0.79 |
Snowing, 15° 24hr: 14/39° Now that we're getting some serious snowfalls, I can see that having a new puppy who loves playing in snow, makes finding undisturbed locations for 'representative samples' and SWE cores a challenge! Actual average snowdepth = 6.8" |
| 1/27/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.25 |
1.4 |
M |
9.0 |
1.09 |
Light snow, 19° 24hr: 15 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /23° Dropped the container with the snowboard sample while clearing the snowboard; so I took a SWE of the snowpack from the average depth of 8.8": 1.09" SWE. New Snow of 1.4" is I think under-reported due to blowing snow off the snowboard & past gauge top. Very light, fluffy snow. Mountain Creek is on the other side of our ridge-line; with the travel ban now lifted they must be looking forward to a great day! |
| 1/28/2015 |
7:30 AM |
0.05 |
0.5 |
0.06 |
8.7 |
M |
Sunny, 10° 24hr: 8/25° Storm total for the four day storm is only 2.6" of measured new snow, although yesterday's measurement was reduced by the blowing snow from the board and gauge. |
| 1/29/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
8.0 |
M |
Sunny, calm, 2° 24hr: 1/30° |
| 1/30/2015 |
7:45 AM |
0.12 |
1.6 |
0.12 |
8.7 |
M |
Light snow, 25° 24hr: 2 [yesterday's a.m. reset] /35° |
| 1/31/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
0.7 |
M |
8.2 |
M |
Sunny, 5° 24hr: 5/33° Snow continued through the morning ending approx 11am. Then wind, which by this morning had blown the snowboard clean. The new snowfall amount is a guess based on what I was shoveling late morning, but I didn't use a ruler to actually measure. The Snow on Ground value is difficult because of all the blowing around of snow and puppy pawprints everywhere! |
| 2/1/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
7.9 |
M |
Cloudy, 20° 24hr: 8° [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /24° Was at a Winter Festival at HIgh Point yesterday; that spot is like the rest of NJ winter weather kicked up a notch! Saw the weather equipment on the building at the base of the monument maintained by Nick Stefano used to transmit H.P. data. |
| 2/2/2015 |
7:30 AM |
0.93 |
6.9 |
0.88 |
14.5 |
2.23 |
Snow, sleet, & freezing rain, 25° 24hr: 20/35° SWE updated at 10.06am after melting: 2.23" |
| 2/3/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.17 |
1.6 |
0.33 |
13.7 |
M |
Cloudy, 10° 24hr: 7/26° Definite ice layer in this morning's samples. Don't understand the extreme difference between the gauge & board; given all the "non-snow" winter precip, I would have expected the gauge to be the higher number. |
| 2/4/2015 |
7:10 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
13.0 |
M |
Overcast, 21° 24hr: 9/28° Glad the sky was so clear early in the evening to see the beautiful conjunction of Jupiter and the full Moon (aptly named The Snow Moon). Also glad it clouded up, so the overnight temps were not as cold! |
| 2/5/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.06 |
0.7 |
0.07 |
14.3 |
M |
Snowing, 22° 24hr: 21/35° At the limits of my 15" metal ruler; switching to a yardstick. Snowcover now covers the low electric fence we have around the vegetable gardens. |
| 2/6/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
14.0 |
M |
Mostly sunny, 5° 24hr: 1/25° Snow pack is 1 & 1/2" of powder over an ice layer, with powder to the ground. "Because every drop counts" -the gauge snow melted to exactly two drops of water. |
| 2/7/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
13.5 |
M |
Overcast, 22° 24hr: 5 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /26° Snow flurries around noon yesterday; no accumulation; no evidence this morning in gauge or on snow-board. |
| 2/8/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
0.1 |
0.01 |
13.0 |
M |
Overcast, 29° 24hr: 22/42° (first high temps over 40° in quite a while). Period of moderately heavy snow late yesterday morning. Bird-song this morning! A Carolina Wren singing :-) |
| 2/9/2015 |
7:30 AM |
0.28 |
0.1 |
M |
12.0 |
2.30 |
Freezing rain, 24° 24hr: 24/39° FR (& a period of sleet around 5:30am) left a glaze on all surfaces. SWE from the snowboard N/A: had to use the side of the metal ruler to scrape glaze off to the clean the board. New snowfall accumulation is an approximation, ruler couldn't make a dent in it. Had to punch the gauge off the post from the bottom & scrape down inside of the tube for melted value. Consistency of snow different now; no longer powder, but heavy & wet under the glaze; I use a bench-scraper to dig next to the tube when measuring the SWE of the snowpack, which lifted out clean "bricks" of snow while digging down to the ground next to the tube to be able to slide the bench-scraper under it to lift out a clean core. Our dog can now walk on top of the snow, the ice is so thick it supports her weight. |
| 2/10/2015 |
7:30 AM |
0.17 |
1.1 |
0.15 |
13.1 |
M |
Overcast, 22° 24hr: 20/26° Another layer of ice from yesterday's FR, topped with 1.1" of snow with a slight glaze on that. Winter weather at its peskiest to measure... |
| 2/11/2015 |
7:45 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
0.00 |
12.5 |
M |
Sunny, 14° 24hr: 14/39° Finally, a sunny morning with the sunlight shining in the ice in all the trees! But even with yesterday's gray skies the beginning of birdsong in the morning was a joy. |
| 2/12/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
0.00 |
12.0 |
M |
Overcast, 25° 24hr: 14 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /38° With temps briefly above freezing was able to chop up some of the ice on the paths and driveway. |
| 2/13/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
0.00 |
12.0 |
M |
Sunny, 0° 24hr: 0/36° Haven't seen zero in a while. Snowpack holding at an average of 12" -and poking through that crust, even with a metal ruler, is getting really difficult. Hope I don't have to resort to making a "starter incision" with the ice chopper again. Going to the NJ State Flower Show today!!! |
| 2/14/2015 |
7:30 AM |
T |
T |
M |
12.0 |
M |
Overcast, calm, 10° 24hr: minus 1/20° Have now dipped into a different plant hardiness zone with -1° First flurries started just before 7:30am while coming in to send this report. |
| 2/15/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.14 |
2.0 |
0.14 |
14.2 |
M |
Cloudy, windy, 7° 24hr: 5/23° Snow really blowing around on the ground this morning. Yesterday a.m.'s -1° was the first below zero of this winter; last year we had six of them. (MG note: changed new snow SWE from 1.40" to 0.14", as suspect this was what was intended. Original report submitted 2/15/2015 9:21 AM) |
| 2/16/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
0.00 |
14.0 |
2.11 |
Sunny, -5° 24hr: -6 /15° Six below zero breaks the -4° record 1/4/14 here going back decades (longer than my garden journals). I dug the SWE core at sunset last night when it had already dropped to -2°. Hope I didn't inadvertently take the core in a previously dug hole; because this week's SWE = 2.11 & last week's = 2.30 with additional snowfall in between. With all the blowing snow, it's very hard to tell. |
| 2/17/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.06 |
1.7 |
0.11 |
15.0 |
M |
Light snow, 12° 24hr: -5° [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /20° Beautiful, large, angled, fluffy snowflakes. The snowpack has a 4 1/2" layer of powder; 0.5" of hard ice layer; and 10" of soft snow right to the ground. |
| 2/18/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
14.5 |
M |
Sunny, -1° 24hr: -3 /29° So much for the Olde Farmers Almanac note on February 14th: "Winters back breaks." Looks like Winter was just getting going! |
| 2/19/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
14.5 |
M |
Cloudy, 10° 24hr: -3° [just after yesterday a.m.'s reset] /35° A fresh light dusting in the evening resulted in 3 drops from the gauge. |
| 2/20/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
0.00 |
14.5 |
M |
Sunny, -6° 24hr: -7 /20° Snow flurries while I was out with the dog after dinner; if I hadn't been outside then, I would have missed it. |
| 2/21/2015 |
7:30 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
0.00 |
14.0 |
M |
Cloudy, 9° 24hr: -8° /18° Temperatures rose 3° just in the time it took to walk to the gauge and back! Minus 8 is the lowest temp this season, with eight zeros or below in February. So much for "Winter's back breaks." |
| 2/22/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.36 |
3.4 |
0.38 |
17.0 |
M |
Overcast, 27° 24hr: 9/27° Lost my 15" steel ruler in the snowpack; will have to "promote" myself to a metal yardstick, which I haven't used because it doesn't measure in tenths of an inch, but traditional 1/8s, 1/4s, 1/2s, etc. Also had to clear a path to our garden shed to remove a spade, to get the SWE tomorrow morning. Snow is beyond the limits of the bench-scraper I usually use to dig and slide under the tube for core readings. |
| 2/23/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
0.00 |
16.0 |
3.20 |
Cloudy, 15° 24hr: 14/45° Took the core sample at sunset yesterday; much easier leaving the extra gauge in the kitchen sink overnight to melt naturally if no precip happened overnight! Getting really hard to find undisturbed parts of the yard -where the snow hasn't either blow away or drifted up. Top 6" is powder. |
| 2/24/2015 |
7:30 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
0.00 |
16.0 |
M |
Sunny, -9° 24hr: -9 /22° Another new record low here. Nine zero degree or below in the second half of February. Many neighbors with frozen pipes and water lines. Spring is going to be very sweet this year... |
| 2/25/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
0.00 |
15.5 |
M |
Sunny, 12° 24hr: -9 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /30° Noticeable increase in bird song and activity, despite the temperatures. |
| 2/26/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
0.00 |
15.0 |
M |
Overcast, 16° 24hr: 12 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /36° The morning radar shows it should be snowing, but it's not. |
| 2/27/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.02 |
0.5 |
0.02 |
16.0 |
M |
Sunny, 10° 24hr: 7/26° The math on the snow cover seems odd: measured 15.0 yesterday; we had 0.5" of fresh snow; and the snowcover today is 16.0" But that's what the measured snowpack is. (Can't wait to ditch the yardstick and go back to my 15" metal ruler!) |
| 2/28/2015 |
7:30 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
0.00 |
16.0 |
M |
Sunny, 4° 24hr: 3/32° February Total precip: 2.20"; Total Snowfall: 17.0"
Onward, to March! |
| 3/1/2015 |
7:30 AM |
T |
T |
M |
16.0 |
M |
Overcast, with the first, fine flakes just beginning to fall while going out to the gauge, 14° 24hr: 4° [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /37° Tomorrow morning's core reading should be very interesting. Glad I'm now using a yardstick. |
| 3/2/2015 |
7:30 AM |
0.26 |
2.1 |
0.26 |
17.7 |
3.50 |
Freezing rain, 24° 24hr: 14° [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /27° While melting the core sample it changed back to light snow. Top 7" of core is snow; 0.4" ice layer; 10.3" to the bottom is snow. Note: our location is part of the Wallkill River drainage basin, not either the Delaware or Pompton river systems. Also, when the core is completely full like this, adding hot water and subtracting that amount isn't effective; scooping the snow/ice contents out of the outer gauge and into a 4c. pyrex measuring cup to microwave takes far less time.
|
| 3/3/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
17.5 |
M |
Cloudy, 14° 24hr: 9/38° There was nothing in the gauge this morning, however there was freezing rain, followed by snow for an hour and a half after yesterday morning's TOO. |
| 3/4/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.66 |
2.0 |
0.80 |
18.5 |
M |
Cloudy, 35° 24hr: 14 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /35° We had 2" on the ground before the changeover to sleet & freezing rain, with 1.8" left on the snowboard this morning. Don't understand the difference between the gauge (0.66) and core from the board (0.80) unless the pounding needed to break through the top thick glaze of ice to get the sample, also loosened some of the bottom glaze that I haven't been able to get off since the last ice storm. Also running out of "clean" places to measure total snow on ground and SWEs. |
| 3/5/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.27 |
2.3 |
0.17 |
20.5 |
M |
Snowing, 25° 24hr: 25/46° Yesterday's melting seemed to be limited to dark surfaced areas; the total snow on the ground INCREASED from 18.5" to 20.5" Impressive slabs of snow/ice that have been on the roof all winter came sliding off in the afternoon. This new metal roof eliminated 'ice dams'! |
| 3/6/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.16 |
2.0 |
0.20 |
20.0 |
M |
Sunny, 8° 24hr: 2/25° Tried to check the pond bubbler yesterday but couldn't find it under the drifts of snow. |
| 3/7/2015 |
7:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
0.00 |
20.0 |
M |
Sunny, 8° 24hr: 7/34° Despite the continuing cold and snow cover, bird song this morning was glorious! I hope all the early blooming bulbs like snowdrops aren't blooming now, underneath 20" of snow/ice.... |
| 3/8/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
0.00 |
19.5 |
M |
Cloudy, 33° 24hr: 8° [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /33° Birdsong in the morning is wonderful! |
| 3/9/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
18.5 |
5.08 |
Sunny, 36° 24hr: 21/46° Nothing in the gauge or on the board this morning, but it snowed for just about an hour around noon yesterday. The reported SWE from the core seems high; I wonder if in digging prior cores I might have shoveled one of the two thick layers of ice that make up this snowpack onto the place where I took this morning's core? To go from 3.50" last Monday to 5.08" today seems improbable. |
| 3/10/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
0.00 |
17.0 |
M |
Hazy, 25° 24hr: 24/52° Red sun emerging on the eastern horizon. "Red sun at morning ..." Glad we had a day of steady, slow melt before any rain arrives on top of this 17" snowpack.
|
| 3/11/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.26 |
0.0 |
M |
15.5 |
M |
Overcast, 38° 24hr: 25 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /49° All of yesterday's warmth only knocked off 1.5" from the snowpack. Still no open ground. I am so ready for SpringFest, which starts tomorrow and runs through the weekend! |
| 3/12/2015 |
3:10 PM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
13.0 |
M |
Sunny, 41° 24hr: 32/56° Steady melt-off continues. Late report today with an unexpected death in the family. |
| 3/13/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
12.5 |
M |
Sunny, 20° Min/max since yesterday 3pm's reset: 20/50° |
| 3/14/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.24 |
0.0 |
M |
12.5 |
M |
Raining, 35° 24hr: 20 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /47° Snowpack is still 100% except were the dark pathways are melting back a little. Measuring in a representative, sunny part of the yard but snow on ground is still 12.50" |
| 3/15/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.30 |
0.0 |
M |
9.0 |
M |
Overcast, 35° 24hr: 34/45° Reduced the reported snow on ground from the measured 11" to 9" to account for the areas where the snow is starting to recede (next to driveway, dark pathways, circles around large maples, and 13" away from the south wall of the house). Best guesstimate. |
| 3/16/2015 |
7:10 AM |
T |
T |
M |
6.0 |
M |
Mostly sunny, 29° 24hr: 29/39° A few brief flurries around noon yesterday. Continuing to do an approximation of Total Snow on Ground: ruler measured 9.5" but calculating the areas where snow is slowly retreating I'm reporting 6.0" Still 100% snow coverage. |
| 3/17/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.05 |
0.0 |
M |
4.5 |
M |
Light rain, 36° 24hrs: 28/51° Actual snow depth of 8.5 was "averaged" to 4.5" considering the areas where melting around paths and the south side of the house are revealing open ground. And there, the tops of crocuses are appearing! Everywhere else it's still 100% snowpack. Last slab if ice fell off our metal roof yesterday. |
| 3/18/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
2.0 |
M |
Cloudy, 24° 24hr: 21/47° The yard is a moon-scape of frozen footprints, pawprints of solid ice this morning. Even with my Yak-tracs that I've been using for the past two months, there's no safe way to get to the undisturbed area that I've been measuring snow-on-the-ground. And there's no way my metal ruler would penetrate this. So 2" is my best guess, averaging the few bare areas (0) with the rest of the yard ( 3 - 4"). |
| 3/19/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
2.0 |
M |
Sunny, 20° 24hr: 20/35" Shortly after TOR we had bursts of snow, some with huge individual flakes. Enough for a light dusting, which quickly disappeared. |
| 3/20/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
1.5 |
M |
Overcast, 26° 24hr: 20 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /40° Snow flurries on and off yesterday morning. Places in the stronger March sun managed to melt a little bit despite the cold temps. |
| 3/21/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.34 |
3.6 |
0.31 |
4.5 |
M |
Cloudy, 28° 24hrs: 25/31° |
| 3/22/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
0.00 |
3.0 |
M |
Mostly sunny, 26° 24hr: 25/42° More flocks of red-winged blackbirds passing through. To stock trout in the lake yesterday, had to break open a hole in the ice with sledge-hammers and ice choppers the night before, and the following morning shovel off 3.5" of fresh snow and then break through the 1/2" of fresh ice from re-freezing. Hard to believe all of the ice will be gone in two weeks (Opening Day Trout). |
| 3/23/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
0.00 |
2.5 |
M |
Sunny, 19° 24hr: 15/40° No way to get a core: solid ice with a small layer of loose snow on top. Needed an ice-chopper yesterday to "shovel off" the first of the raised beds to warm under plastic for the early season crops. |
| 3/24/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
0.00 |
2.0 |
M |
Sunny, 19° 24hr: 17/37° Snowpack is still 100% and is melting from the edges in: driveway, patio and slate walkways are getting wider, but judging from the few tops of perennials sticking out of the snow, the depth isn't budging much. |
| 3/25/2015 |
7:30 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
0.00 |
2.0 |
M |
Sunny, with high cirrus clouds, 19° 24hr: 18/44° Paths in snow cover widening; the top of rocks bordering some perennial gardens and the pond are now showing. |
| 3/26/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.04 |
0.0 |
0.00 |
1.0 |
M |
Mostly sunny, 35° 24hr: 19 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /45° Now we're making progress in the snowmelt. Down to an average depth of 1.0" Large "V" formations of geese flying overhead northward yesterday. |
| 3/27/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.65 |
0.3 |
M |
1.0 |
M |
Overcast, with glops of snow falling out of the trees, 33° 24hr: 32/52° Lots of lightning in the west as the storm front approached around 9pm last night. Even with my Yak-Tracs this morning on I slipped after collecting the board core sample, so that was lost this morning. Everything is white with fresh snow; if it weren't the end of March I might have said "Winter Wonderland." |
| 3/28/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
0.00 |
0.5 |
M |
Hazy sun through high clouds, 25° 24hr: 25/42° |
| 3/29/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
T |
M |
T |
M |
Sunny, 19° 24hr: 17/37° Snow moved through at 10:30pm and started to cover. Finally at the point where 1/2 of our yard is open ground and 1/2 is ice/extremely compressed snow, so reporting "T". The only place the dog falls through anymore is in the 18" against a SE facing rockwall. |
| 3/30/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.02 |
0.2 |
0.02 |
0.5 |
M |
Overcast, 31° 24hr: 19 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /45° Began bringing patio and garden stuff out of the SunShed, but glad I left the snowboard in place. Another covering this morning... |
| 3/31/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
0.0 |
0.00 |
T |
M |
Sunny, 32° 24hr: 30/48° A lot of melt with the snowpack occurred yesterday, topped off with some rain around 9pm. Front sump pump is on. Snowdrops visible through the remaining ice shield around the pond. Pond still frozen solid. Ditto the lake. |
| 4/1/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.27 |
2.4 |
0.25 |
2.0 |
M |
Cloudy, 25° 24hr: 23/40° Started as snow at 12:30pm; by evening roads were in terrible shape, until the town plows came through just before 8pm. Almost a full inch of snow was "standing" on top of the edge of the gauge; needed to do the 'flat surface whack' maneuver. Also, reported less total snow on ground (2.0") that new snowfall, because all of the dark surfaced areas (patio, walks, etc.) accumulated less snow than the snowboard (2.4") to average out the depth. March CoCoRaHS totals: precip = 3.25" and snowfall = 12.5" Sure seemed like more! |
| 4/2/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
0.00 |
T |
M |
Hazy sun through high clouds, 27° 24hr: 25/49° Purple crocuses open on the south facing side of the house. Patches of snow remain in the usual spots, but yesterday's 2.4" mostly disappeared by mid afternoon. |
| 4/3/2015 |
6:30 AM |
T |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Cloudy, 52°! 24hr: 27 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /63° The gauge was empty this morning, but I had observed light rain last night while letting the dog out. |
| 4/4/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.68 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Mostly sunny, breezy, 39° 24hr: 39/61° Pounding rain moved through around 3am, but didn't last long. The front sump pump is on. |
| 4/5/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 37° 24hr: 30/48° Mucked out the pond and set up the waterfall/filtration system yesterday --before the toads and frogs arrive. Heard them peeping Friday night in nearby wetlands in Stockholm. |
| 4/6/2015 |
7:30 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Hazy sun, 30° 24hr: 30/57° Frost on car windows this morning. |
| 4/7/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
A few raindrops on the way to the gauge, 47° 24hr: 30 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /69° |
| 4/8/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.18 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 37° 24hr: 37/54° With the first red bud tips of the maples in the gauge, decided it was time to put back up the inner gauge and the funnel. Although EdgeWeather is forecasting freezing rain Thursday am. |
| 4/9/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 33° 24hr: 33/44° Cold and windy in the garden yesterday while dividing and moving around perennials. Still no frogs or toads in the pond. The lake is finally beginning to open up! |
| 4/10/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.32 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 37° 24hr: 33 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /40° A very heavy downpour around 5am. |
| 4/11/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, windy, 46° 24hr: 37 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /55° Wind really whipping out of the W/NW. The fishermen are finally able to get out on the lake today; although last Saturday was Opening Day of Trout Season, no one could get out because of the ice. |
| 4/12/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Sunny, 39° 24hr: 32/54° Snowdrops and purple crocuses going by, the very tops of bleeding hearts up 1 - 2" out of the ground. Seedlings growing under lights indoors while garden clean-up continues. |
| 4/13/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Cloudy, 44° 24hr: 36/70° First 70° temp in a long, long time. |
| 4/14/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.05 |
0.0 |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Overcast, 47° 24hr: 45/73° Peepers in the pond for the first time last night. We love the sound; the new dog spent the evening growling at them. |
| 4/15/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 46° 24hr: 41/61° Toads mating in the pond yesterday. |
| 4/16/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly sunny, with a few high clouds, 44° 24hr: 37/68° |
| 4/17/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.14 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 51° 24hr: 44 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /67° Forsythia buds just ready to open. Usually co-incides here with toads trilling in the pond. |
| 4/18/2015 |
7:30 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Beautiful morning, sunny, calm, 45° with birdsong. 24hr: 44/68° Not sure if the drops of precip in the gauge is dew or a T. I'm going with dew, since there's so much on the SunShed, cars, etc. |
| 4/19/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 45° 24hr: 41/80° Our first 80° temp since last year. All of the forsythias burst into bloom. Three mating pairs of toads in the pond and trilling at night. |
| 4/20/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.15 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Driving rain, 43° with occasional strong gusts. 24hr: 40/67° Pots, grill covers, garbage can lids blown all over the neighborhood. |
| 4/21/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.88 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 50° 24hr max: 55° Just stopped raining. Thunder and lightning moved through around midnight. |
| 4/22/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.06 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 45° 24hr: 37/64° Dividing and moving around perennials. Egg stringers in the pond from mating toads. Mid to low 30°s forecast for the overnight temps for the rest of the week. |
| 4/23/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.09 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 36° 24hr: 34/67° |
| 4/24/2015 |
7:30 AM |
0.01 |
T |
M |
0.0 |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 33° with a few snow flakes falling on my way back in from the gauge. 24hr: 31/45° Forsythia is gorgeous back-lighted by the rising, low morning sun. Snow flurries yesterday morning more sustained. |
| 4/25/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, breezy, 34° 24hr: 30/49° |
| 4/26/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 40° 24hr: 34[yesterday a.m.'s reset] /60° Crocus and glory-of-the-snow have gone by, hyacinths and daffodils are in bloom now, and tulips will follow soon. |
| 4/27/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 44° 24hr: 40 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /61° |
| 4/28/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, with a few cumulous clouds drifting over from the north, 46° 24hr: 42/59° A few sprinkles at 1pm and a brief rain-shower around 7pm. |
| 4/29/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 51° 24hr: 46/69° Tulips opened yesterday afternoon with a back-drop of the forsythias in full loom. Toad trilling still coming from the pond at night. |
| 4/30/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 48° 24hr: 41/78° Total precip for the April reporting period was 2.86" Seemed a lot drier... |
| 5/1/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 48° 24hr: 44/71° Green leaves just beginning to come out on forsythias. Buds opening on all the large maples. First black bear in the yard yesterday afternoon; thankfully the training of our young dog worked and she did not confront it or try to chase it. |
| 5/2/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 49° 24hr: 40/64° A few drops yesterday afternoon; nothing in the gauge this morning. |
| 5/3/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 54° 24hr: 40/75° |
| 5/4/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly sunny, 60° 24hr: 47/80° One dead mayfly in the gauge this morning; appropriate, because the hatch over the last two days has produced very populous swarms of the pests. |
| 5/5/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 62° 24hr: 56/84° |
| 5/6/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 55° 24hr:55/78° 0.01" of rain plus a LOT of pollen. |
| 5/7/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 51° 24hr: 43/69° Surprised the rain was as much as 0.03" -very light showers on and off into early afternoon weren't enough to wet under the patio table and car. Colder than originally forecast ("low near 50°) so everything was left out uncovered over night. |
| 5/8/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 63° 24hr: 51/81° Shade is re-appearing in parts of the yard as the maples leaf out. Late season tulilps in bloom. Pond is filled with lots of tadpoles. All transplanted perennials are in and have begun setting out hearty annuals. Holding everything else back... |
| 5/9/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Foggy, 57° 24hr: 51/82° |
| 5/10/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 64° 24hr: 57/72° Wasn't sure if the two drops in the gauge were dew or rain, but I noticed raindrop patterns in the pollen on the patio table, so I'm reporting as precipitation, not condensation. |
| 5/11/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 67° 24hr: 63/82° First time I've experienced "sea fog" on the Atlantic. It was 82° here in Sussex County and 62° on Island Beach State Park. A wall of cloud (wind S over the water) with visibility limited to the first breakers. |
| 5/12/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 65° 24hr: 62/81° Very, very dry. |
| 5/13/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Partly cloudy, windy, 54° 24hr: 50/80° Wind whipping out of the N/NW plus 3 days in the 80°s ended the tulip bloom. Nothing but dust, pollen, and pine needles in the gauge. Very, very dry. |
| 5/14/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 48° 24hr: 39/60° |
| 5/15/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly sunny, with a thick hazy sky, 51° 24hr: 42/70° Getting scarey dry. Nothing but pollen and dust in the gauge for days. Having to water tulip leaves! |
| 5/16/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 54° 24hr: 51/70° The 0.01" in the gauge looked like lime juice it had so much pollen in it. Not even enough rain to come out of the roof downspouts. Dry under the larger trees. Was so hoping for rain! |
| 5/17/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.35 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Foggy, 62° 24hr: 54 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /72° Long, drawn out peals of rolling thunder with the rain last night. The last few storms headed this way seem to "split" around Hight Point Mountain and miss us, while locations to our north and our south get rain. We got the edge on this round. |
| 5/18/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 64° with heavy dew. Very humid. 24hr: 60/80° |
| 5/19/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 56° 24hr: 54/66° Another storm that missed us, leaving barely enough to wet the leaves. A steady, soaking rain is much needed. |
| 5/20/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, breezy, 51° 24hr: 50/77° The first of the maple tree "helicopters" started falling yesterday; this morning the ground is blanketed with them and there are tons of them still up there. |
| 5/21/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 47° 24hr: 44/57° Carried all the pots and planters in last night with forecast for hi 30°s. Forecast for Friday is ~ . These annuals are never going to get outside! |
| 5/22/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
A beautiful, sunny, crisp morning, 53° with a light breeze. 24hr: 46/59° Looks like tonite will be another night carrying in pots and planters... |
| 5/23/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, breezy, and cool, 44° 24hr: 40/67° |
| 5/24/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 57° 24hr: 42/66° Ground is dry as a bone. I think I'm going to limit "in-ground" annual plantings and focus on a few pots and planters that I can water regularly. |
| 5/25/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 62° 24hr: 57/75° Noticed in the garden: honey bees, bumble bees, wood bees, hornets, and wasps. Finally setting out the "heat loving" vegetables and annuals. |
| 5/26/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly sunny, 66° 24hr: 62/81° Hoping for rain. Need it badly. |
| 5/27/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Increasing overcast, 66° 24hr: 64/85° Only thing in the gauge and funnel are maple tree 'helicopters' which have to be cleaned out daily. The number of zeros on the paper Monthly Precipitation Report is frightening; total precip to datefor May: 0.42". |
| 5/28/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.13 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 67° and quite humid. 24hr: 63/80° Yet another storm that went around us. We need rain so badly that I'm now checking the pm radars. It didn't look like this one could miss! Just before 5:30pm deep, rolling thunder to our west, and a brief period of light rain. Gone before 6pm. |
| 5/29/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 59° 24hr: 52/80° Yesterday a thunderstorm traveled right above us across the NY border. Skies looked promising, but still nada. |
| 5/30/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly sunny, 67° 24hr: 59 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /81° Five straight days of 80° or higher and only 0.55" of rain for the month. Dragonflies and damselflies numerous around the pond and front lawn. |
| 5/31/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Very fine drizzle, 66° 24hr: 66/80° The CoCoRaHS month of May ends with only 0.56" of rain. Soil is very, very dry. Yesterday moistened the top layer of soil around plants so that if today's rain is a heavy one, it doesn't all run off. Will put down more mulch after the rains. |
| 6/1/2015 |
8:00 AM |
1.55 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 53° 24hr: 52/76. Thank God for rain! Today's total is not quite triple the entire rainfall for May. Came in bands: started just before OBS yesterday and lasted a half hour with 0.27", then was hot and humid until 1:45pm when another 0.17" came through. Back to hot and humid until around 8pm, this time with lots of T & L and dropping temps. Nice to see an over-flowed gauge after all the dry days! Hoping the pauses gave the ground a chance to moisten so the later rains could penetrate and not run off. |
| 6/2/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.64 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 47° 24hr: 46/63° Garden and the gardener are grateful for rain! |
| 6/3/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.35 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 50° 24hr: 47/53° |
| 6/4/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 51° 24hr: 49/65° Not sure if this is dew or 0.01" |
| 6/5/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Fine drizzle, 53° 24hr: 51/67° Drizzle started on my way out to read the gauge this morning. Our dog chased a black bear right past our front garden yesterday afternoon. |
| 6/6/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.20 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 61° 24hr: 53 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /69° The 0.20 is not rounded. With the return of rain this past week, was encouraged to go & order a new replacement tree, that I was going to hold off on if we were facing a summer of drought. |
| 6/7/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 53° 24hr: 44/69° Beautiful crisp clear morning. |
| 6/8/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.04 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Raining, 56° 24hr: 53/71° Ran began shortly after 6am this morning. Saw the first lightning bug of the season in the garden last evening at twilight. |
| 6/9/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.86 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 64° 24hr: 55/74° Quite a light show here when the front arrived around 8pm. Total for June to date: 3.65" --a very different story from May. We seem to have turned the corner on the dry spell. |
| 6/10/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.12 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 60° 24hr: 54/76. Adult gypsy months have begun dying, so soon it will be the end of the "frass season." |
| 6/11/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 66° 24hr: 60 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /77° It's definitely summer again on the lake. A pair of blue herons, a cormorant, and thankfully, not a Canadian Goose to be seen! |
| 6/12/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, humid, 65° 24hr: 63/82° |
| 6/13/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.12 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 66° 24hr: 65 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /82° Some thunder to the south during the brief, late afternoon downpour. |
| 6/14/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 63° 24hr: 55/79° |
| 6/15/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.46 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 68° 24hr: 63/81° Strawberry, snow pea, and lettuce harvest is wonderful. Just flowers and tiny green fruit on tomatoes; first zucchinni flower on plants today. Cukes just sitting there not much bigger than when they were set-out. |
| 6/16/2015 |
8:00 AM |
1.35 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 65° 24hr: 63/79° Two periods of very heavy rain yesterday & tropical humidity. |
| 6/17/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.49 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 63° 24hr: 58/76° The first line of storms really clobbered us, but the second line "forked" again and mostly went around this location. One of the bears has figured out how to unscrew the top of the "bear proof" garbage can. Pullled a full bag out of the can, down the driveway, over a split rain fence, and tossed the rejects all over our neighbors yard. |
| 6/18/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 60° 24hr: 59/74° |
| 6/19/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Foggy, 64° 24hr: 60/64° |
| 6/20/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Partly cloudy, breezy, 61° 24hr: 58/76° Hope Bill holds off till tonite! Family Reunion BBQ here this afternoon. NE CONUS doesn't look good! |
| 6/21/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.58 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Light rain, 67° 24hr: 58/67° Mist fell all day interspersed with occasional rain. If not for the firepit, everyone here for the family reunion probably would have left by mid afternoon! Heavier rain arrived late in the evening, but it never got intense here. Based on yesterdays forecast, was expecting an overflowed inner gauge this morning, but only 0.58" |
| 6/22/2015 |
7:00 AM |
0.46 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 63° with heavy dew. Morning sun striking the dangling drops hanging from the trees looked like jewels tipping each leaf. 24hr: 62/80° Rain moved again late afternoon, right after clean-up from the family reunion the day before. |
| 6/23/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, humid, 71° 24hr: 63 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /78° Fireflies all over the lawn last night; a beautiful summer sight! |
| 6/24/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.18 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, breezy, 64° 24hr: 58/80° Beautiful morning! |
| 6/25/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sun through high, thin clouds, 60° 24hr: 52/75° There didn't seems to be sufficient dew to account for the "T" and yet I never observed rain at any time yesterday & the night sky was star-filled. |
| 6/26/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, breezy, 63° 24hr: 60/75° It feels like rain. |
| 6/27/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 63° 24hr: 63/73° Feels like rain again. Thankfully, this Saturday is indoors -a family painting party, unlike last weekend. |
| 6/28/2015 |
8:00 AM |
1.17 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 55° 24hr: 53/63° Mostly just moderate, steady rain yesterday until early evening when the wind picked up. It knocked a small limb onto the roof. So chilly that when we got home around dinner time we built a fire in the fireplace! |
| 6/29/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.14 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 60° 24hr: 55/64° The 0.14" is "leftover" rain from the prior storm that fell after OBS yesterday morning. |
| 6/30/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 60° 24hr: 57/68° Moderate dew. |
| 7/1/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.28 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sun peeking through hazy clouds, 67° 24hr: 60 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /73° CoCoRaHS month total for June: 8.74" Wow. And with only on tropical system remnant, T.S. Bill. |
| 7/2/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 61° with heavy dew. 24hr: 57/74° A single drop of liquid in the bottom of the foggy gauge which by the wetness of the grass and everything else, am reporting as condensation, not rain. |
| 7/3/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 57° with moderate dew. 24hr: 55/73° Beautiful morning! |
| 7/4/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Light rain, 62° 24hr: 58/72° |
| 7/5/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.13 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 61° 24hr: 56/67° Thankfully, the clouds gave way to stars last night and the fireworks went on! |
| 7/6/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 60° with moderate dew. 24hr: 58/77° Tiny, black toad-lets jumping all over the pond garden. Now they're big enough for the dog to see and chase. |
| 7/7/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 69° 24hr: 60 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /79° Looked like it was going to rain several times yesterday, but dark skies passed by. |
| 7/8/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.12 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast,humid, 70° 24hr: 69/80° Our first 80° day this July. All the rain came in one downpour that moved through just before 5pm. Sun returned quickly and it became even MORE humid, if that were possible. |
| 7/9/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.09 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Light rain, 64° 24hr: 64/77° Again yesterday, the radar looked like we were going to get heavy rain, but the front split after coming across the Delaware, and went above and below us. |
| 7/10/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.35 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, breezy, 64° 24hr: 63/74° Beautiful morning! The astilbes, nicotiana, ballon flower, crocosmia, dahlias, and butterfly bushes are in peak bloom. |
| 7/11/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 63° 24hr: 56/75° |
| 7/12/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 65° with moderate dew. 24hr: 57/77° |
| 7/13/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly sunny, 65° with morning dew. 24 hr: 61/79° |
| 7/14/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, humid, 63° 24hr: 60/79° |
| 7/15/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.01 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 68° 24hr: 64/75° Literally, a few drops yesterday afternoon around 4pm. Raindrops could be seen on the ground on one side of the yard but not on the other. Right after OBS this morning light rain began. |
| 7/16/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.03 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, breezy, 59° 24hr: 56/76° Went to bed last night with the bedroom A/C on, and woke up to a completely different air mass. It's a cool, crisp, beautiful morning. Yesterdays storms mostly passed by us. Again. The 0.03" came from light rain right after yesterday's OBS. |
| 7/17/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 60° with moderate dew resulting in a single drop in the bottom of the gauge. 24hr: 52/71° |
| 7/18/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.04 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Light rain, 66° 24hr: 60 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /74° Rain started shortly before OBS. |
| 7/19/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 71° 24hr: 66/80° The gauge was bone dry this morning, but we had light rain for a while yesterday morning that wet the ground not under the large trees. But after collecting yesterday's sample I had to bring the funnel and inner gauge inside to clean after a bird pooped straight down the middle of the funnel bottom. By the color it had stained yesterday's 0.04" sample, I'd say it had been eating mulberries! If any measurable rain had fallen in the large outer gauge, it could have evaporated in yesterday's heat and sun. |
| 7/20/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 75° 24hr: 71/85• A textbook "H H H" day. Watered the vegetable garden to cool down the plants as much as add moisture to the dry soil. |
| 7/21/2015 |
7:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 69° 24hr: 68/87° 2 drops fell on my way out to the gauge. What a difference a pond with fish in it makes regarding mosquitos! We were just across town at twilight at my brother's and were eaten alive standing in his driveway. Returning home to none, realized: the fish eat the larvae and the numerous toads and dragonflies eat the adult mosquitos. Good deal! |
| 7/22/2015 |
7:00 AM |
0.12 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 60° 24hr: 59/80° Thunder started rumbling in the west around 6pm and by 6:15 the rain started. Ground needed it. |
| 7/23/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 61° 24hr: 54/75° A perfect "10" for sure. The daytime humming of the cicada which began on Sunday is continuing. "Seven weeks till the frost." Ugh.
|
| 7/24/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 55° 24hr: 54/75° |
| 7/25/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 56° 24hr: 54/75° Needing to water vegetables and all new transplants. Ground very dry. |
| 7/26/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Partly cloudy, 69° 24hr: 56 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /78° Noticed that last night the only garden bed with fireflies in/above it was the one that I had watered. Yard is even too dry for insects! |
| 7/27/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.42 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 66° 24hr: 65/81° Around 7pm we could hear distant thunder but it took a long time to arrive here. The longest period of continuous, rolling thunder I've ever heard. Not as much rain as expected; rain never got really heavy. |
| 7/28/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, humid, 69° 24hr: 66/78° Bedroom windows all fogged this morning with A/C on. |
| 7/29/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 68° with moderate dew. 24hr: 63/82° |
| 7/30/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, humid and still, 73° 24hr: 68/84° Watering veggie garden and all transplants as dry July continues. |
| 7/31/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.84 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, less humid, 65° 24hr: 61/81° At 4:05pm filed a Significant Weather Report after the passing thunderstorm dumped 0.83" in just over one hour. That one short storm was approx 1/3 of the rain for the entire month of July. |
| 8/1/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly sunny, 67° 24hr: 63/79° |
| 8/2/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, crisp morning, 61° 24hr: 56/79° Although August is usually filled with the sound of insect buzz, not birdsong, this morning a Carolina wren was singing its heart out! Explosion of tomatoes, cukes, zukes, and herbs continues. |
| 8/3/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, more humid, 67° 24hr: 61 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /77° |
| 8/4/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.11 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 65° 24hr: 63/81° Quite a lightning and thunder show that began at 3:44am! |
| 8/5/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Partly cloudy, 60° 24hr: 57/78° Heavy condensation in the inner gauge resulted in one drop of moisture. |
| 8/6/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 61° 24hr: 54/76° Another morning of heavy condensation in the gauge, but no rain. Skies did darken for a while late afternoon, but it passed by without a drop. |
| 8/7/2015 |
6:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 55° with moderate dew. 24hr: 55/72° |
| 8/8/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Entered 8/10/15 after 3 days away. |
| 8/9/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Entered 8/10/15 after 3 days away. |
| 8/10/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Partly cloudy, 64° Three day 24hr min/max: 54/76° Reset 8/10/15 after 3 days away; my neighbor checked the gauge for me every morning. Wow, a garden gets very parched when the gardener is away for three days and no rain! |
| 8/11/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.73 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Light rain, 65° 24hr: 63/72° Only 0.07" from a very brief rainstorm that started at 2:22pm. Overnight 0.66" --hopefully every drop made it into the soil and didn't run off. The ground has been bone dry. |
| 8/12/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.37 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 64° with heavy dew. 24hr: 61/72° Hopefully tonite will be clear for Perseid meteor shower viewing! |
| 8/13/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Beautiful morning: crisp & sunny, 61° 24hr: 58/73° Despite several clouds floating in and out, last night was a great night for Perseid meteor watching. The lower humidity made the clear parts of the sky VERY clear, enough to see the Milky Way. Not usual summer sky viewing --and we saw several long fireballs. |
| 8/14/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 57° 24hr: 52/72° Saw a few more "left over" Perseids last night around 3am. Clear skies in mid August here are rare! |
| 8/15/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 67° 24hr: 57/77° Young bear bouncing around our "bear proof" garbage cans yesterday afternoon; a new garden nemesis: a small woodchuck burrowing under our SunShed. Better start harvesting early, before he eats all the parsley and beans! |
| 8/16/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 65° 24hr: 63/80° Not sure if the few drops in the gauge this morning were dew or rain. Did not observe rain any time in the 24 hour reporting period. |
| 8/17/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 66° with heavy dew. 24hr: 64/81° Very still and sticky morning. |
| 8/18/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 68° with heavy dew. 24hr: 66/83° During the time between taking the reading @ 8am and sending the report @ 9am the cloud cover thinned and the sun is beginning to dimly shine through. |
| 8/19/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, humid, 69° 24hr: 67/84° Each day this week the morning temp and day time high temp has risen a degree. Ground is very dry. |
| 8/20/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.79 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 70° 24hr: 68/79° An impressive downpour began at 3pm and was gone by 3:30pm, with peals of rolling thunder as the sun came back out. 0.78" in that half hour; only another 0.01 since that Significant Weather Report. Poor Union County! |
| 8/21/2015 |
8:00 AM |
1.06 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly sunny, 63° 24hr: 63/76° |
| 8/22/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 57° 24hr: 56/74° First morning back in the 50°s in over a week: a beautiful morning! |
| 8/23/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 58° 24hr: 55/71° |
| 8/24/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Very hazy sun, 59° with heavy dew. 24hr: 57/74° Beginning the drying of garden herbs for winter cooking. |
| 8/25/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.26 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 66° 24hr: 59 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /81° Rain moved through approx 1am. Steamy and still this morning. |
| 8/26/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 57° 24hr: 54/76° For the second week in a row a bear opened up the "bear proof" garbage can; first week we thought it was a fluke, or we hadn't screwed the top all the way down. The cans are hard enough to open with oppositional thumbs! They're stoking up for the approaching winter... |
| 8/27/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, light breeze, 60° 24hr: 55/70° Gorgeous morning. Less dew than most recent mornings. Dog woke us up again with a bear in the yard at 1 am. That's one reason to look forward to winter: hibernation! |
| 8/28/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 54° with heavy dew on everything. 24hr: 52/68° Beautiful morning. |
| 8/29/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sun through high, thin clouds, 56° with heavy morning dew. 24hr: 50/69° |
| 8/30/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 59° 24hr: 56/74° |
| 8/31/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly cloudy, 68° 24hr: 59 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /78° |
| 9/1/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 65° and quite humid. 24hr: 62/79° It sure felt a lot hotter! We got two very brief and very light showers yesterday afternoon, the first a 1pm the second around 3pm; the gauge however, was bone dry this morning. Total rain for August = 3.32" Thought that was bad, but see that last August the total was only 1.76" |
| 9/2/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 61° with heavy dew. 24hr: 59/77° Drying herbs and saving seed for next year's garden continues. Ground is dry as a bone. Besides watering transplants, have begun a rotation of watering the perennial gardens. |
| 9/3/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 64° with heavy dew. [I should just copy and paste that. It's been the same all week.] 24hr: 61/83° Everything not watered turning crispy brown. |
| 9/4/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 67° 24hr: 64/80° Storm in the area last night; thunder and lightning, but no rain here. No dew on the gauge this morning. |
| 9/5/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 61° 24hr: 59/75° Moderate dew. |
| 9/6/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 59° 24hr: 54/75° Drop-dead-gorgeous morning! |
| 9/7/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 60° 24hr: 55/76° |
| 9/8/2015 |
7:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, 66° 24hr: 60 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /80° On the hottest, most humid day of the Labor Day weekend, dug over a new, 20' raised bed vegetable garden to plant Fall garlic. Had to wet the bed first; the ground was like dust down to six inches. |
| 9/9/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Hazy sun, humid, 71° 24hr: 66 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /85° Soil is as dry as a bone. Many perennials have turned crispy. |
| 9/10/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.51 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 67° 24hr: 66/83° Thunder, lightning, and finally some much needed rain overnight! We need more of a good, soaking rain. |
| 9/11/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.71 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 61° 24hr: 57/69° |
| 9/12/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Partly cloudy, 62° with heavy dew. 24hr: 55/72° |
| 9/13/2015 |
8:00 AM |
1.02 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 61° 24hr: 61/70° Haven't had over an inch in a 24hr period in a while, and this was not even a tropical system! |
| 9/14/2015 |
7:10 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly sunny, 51° 24hr: 50/67° |
| 9/15/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 52° and calm. 24hr: 50/66° First night enjoying the fireplace since Spring. |
| 9/16/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 51° 24hr: 51/71° |
| 9/17/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 55° 24hr: 52/73° |
| 9/18/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 54° 24hr: 52/77° Beginning to pull non-hardy bulbs and take cuttings of non-hardy plants for next year's garden. We are still "down a quart" in the rain department... |
| 9/19/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 56° 24hr: 54/74° Yesterday late in the afternoon a very large flock of mixed blackbirds descended on the neighborhood, giving our year and a half dog a great opportunity to flush some birds. |
| 9/20/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 60° 24hr: 56/73° Feels like a change in the air with a light breeze and the underside of leaves showing. But no rain and the sky is beginning to clear. It was overcast at 7:30am. |
| 9/21/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Mostly sunny, with thin, high clouds, 50° 24hr: 50/68° The snow-board used for the last five years was pretty beat up, so I cut a new one for the coming winter. I install a thin rod through the center, so I can find the board in deep snow. Deep watering all transplants. |
| 9/22/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, but still dry, 52° 24hr: 50/63° |
| 9/23/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 48° 24hr: 47/67° Perfect day to kick off the Fall season. Watering continues... |
| 9/24/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Sunny, 50° 24hr: 46/67° DRY. |
| 9/25/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 54° 24hr: 51/68° At 6:30am the eastern horizon was glowing red. "Red sun at morning, sailor take warning." Hoping for rain, but forecast doesn't look encouraging. |
| 9/26/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Cloudy, 54° 24hr: 50/65° Continued too dry.... |
| 9/27/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Partly cloudy, with high, thin clouds, 49· 24hr: 47/64° Bringing in the pots of large, foliage plants that not frost-hearty and are kept indoors over the winter. First "V" of Canadian Geese flying overhead yesterday. |
| 9/28/2015 |
8:00 AM |
0.00 |
0.0 |
M |
M |
M |
Light fog, 58° 24hr: 49 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /64° First half of the eclipse could be seen with the moon moving in and out of the clouds flowing in from the south. |
| 9/29/2015 |
8:00 AM |
T |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 65° 24hr: 58 [yesterday a.m.'s reset] /71° A mere three drops in the gauge this morning. |
| 9/30/2015 |
8:00 AM |
2.24 |
M |
M |
M |
M |
Overcast, 68° 24hr: 65/73° Rain began at 3:45pm. The 2.24" in the gauge this morning is the exact about of the total rain to date for September until today. One day doubled the rain total for the month: 4.48" |