December 13, 2008

Westmoreland Weather
There was no precipitation in the gauge this morning. The 5:30 AM temperature was 25ºF, the sky was partly cloudy and winds were calm. There was a heavy frost.

The forecast for today is for a low in the mid 30's, a high in the upper 40's, and partly cloudy sky's.

The low today was 21ºF and the high was 43ºF. It was cloudy pretty much all day with a few brief periods of mostly cloudy.

Last year on the 13th the low was 48ºF, the high was 58ºF, and 1.13" of precipitation was recorded for this CoCoRaHS station.

Weather Forecast for Oshkosh, Wisconsin
The forecast today is for a low in the low 30's, the high in the low 30's, and cloudy sky's with a 20% chance of ice pellets (sleet?).

Weather Fact
The highest temperature recorded in Nebraska was 118ºF on July 24, 1936 at Minden. (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.

12/12/2008 CoCoRaHS reports (as of time of blog entry) -
The most precipitation reported in Tennessee was 2.80" at Bell Buckle. There was 3.8" of new snow reported at College Grove in Williamson County. There were 340 reports from Tennessee.
The most precipitation reported in Texas was 0.47" at Lumberton. There were 323 reports from Texas.
No precipitation was reported in Tarrant County, Texas.
So far, 5286 CoCoRaHS entries have been made and the greatest amount of precipitation reported was 5.05" at Glens Falls, New York.

The most new snow reported was 10.0" at Wellsboro, Pennsylvania.
The most snow reported on the ground was 24.5" at Anchorage, Alaska.