December 22, 2008

Westmoreland Weather
There was no precipitation in the gauge this morning. The 5:30 AM temperature was 7ºF, the sky was clear and winds were calm. There was frost.

The forecast for today is for a low in the upper teens, a high in the mid 20's, and mostly clear sky's during the day becoming partly cloudy this evening and then mostly cloudy overnight.

The low today was 6ºF and the high was 24ºF. It was partly cloudy all day.

Last year on the 22nd the low was 44ºF, the high was 60ºF, and no precipitation was recorded for this CoCoRaHS station.

Weather Forecast for Oshkosh, Wisconsin
The forecast today is for a low around -1ºF, the high around 4ºF, and partly cloudy sky's.

Weather Fact
The lowest temperature recorded in New York was -52ºF on February 18,1979 at Old Forge. (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.

12/21/2008 CoCoRaHS reports (as of time of blog entry) -
The most precipitation reported in Tennessee was 1.66" at Crossville. There were 306 reports from Tennessee. The most precipitation reported in Texas was 0.02" at Vidor. There were 252 reports from Texas.
No precipitation was reported in Tarrant County, Texas.
So far, 4483 CoCoRaHS entries have been made and the greatest amount of precipitation was 2.45" at Trinity, Alabama. (Greater amounts appear to be either new snow or total snow being reported as total precipitation. Hopefully these people will read the instructions soon.)

The most new snow reported was 16.5" at North Plains, Oregon. (A report of 20.9" from Reed City, Michigan is either multi day or should have been 2.90".)
The most snow reported on the ground was 34.5" at Crested Butte, Colorado.