November 15,2008

Westmoreland Weather
There was 0.47" of precipitation in the gauge this morning. The 5:30 AM temperature was 48ºF, the sky was cloudy with a light rain falling, and winds were estimated to be 4-7 mph.

The forecast for today is for a high in the mid 40's, a low in the upper 20's, cloudy sky's, a 70% chance of rain this morning and a chance of showers this afternoon.

The low today was 37ºF and the high was 52ºF. The high was in the early hours because the temperature slowly fell from the 48ºF at 5:30 AM to the upper 30's by 10 PM.

Last year on the 15th the low was 40ºF, the high was 71ºF, and 0.89" of precipitation was recorded for this CoCoRaHS station.

Weather Forecast for Oshkosh, Wisconsin
The forecast low today is for a low in the mid 20's and the expected high is for the mid 30's. The sky is expected to be mostly cloudy.

Weather Fact
The highest temperature recorded in Illinois was 117ºF on July 14, 1954 at East St. Louis. (2008 The World Almanac and Book of Facts.)

CoCoRaHS
CoCoRaHS is a volunteer system where average people who like weather can record the precipitation at their location and help various climate researchers better understand precipitation patterns. For more information, go to the CoCoRaHS web site.

11/14/2008 CoCoRaHS reports (as of time of blog entry) -
The most precipitation reported in Tennessee was 0.65" at Chattanooga. There were 335 reports from Tennessee.
The most precipitation reported in Texas was 2.79" at Brownsville. There were 358 reports from Texas.
No precipitation was reported in Tarrant County, Texas.
So far, 5790 CoCoRaHS entries have been made and the greatest amount of precipitation was 5.00" at Midway, Florida. (Hopefully this is a real reading and not an estimate. Port St. Joe, Florida had the second highest report of 4.55".)

The most new snow reported was 9.0" at Cheyenne, Wyoming.
The most snow reported on the ground was 31.5" at somewhere in Yukon-Koyukuk, Alaska.