June 22, 2009

Westmoreland Weather
There was no precipitation in the gauge this morning. The 5:30 AM temperature was 76ºF, the sky was clear and winds were calm.

The forecast for today is for a low in the low 70's, a high in the low 90s, partly cloudy skies, and northwest winds 5-10 mph with a 20% chance of rain.

The low today was 70º F and the high was 90º F. A storm came through in the early afternoon and gave us around 0.7" of rain and another storm came though around 8 PM and gave us around 0.3" more rain and knocked the power off for a couple of hours.

Last year on the 22nd the low was 61º F, the high was 85º F, and 0.05" of precipitation was recorded for this CoCoRaHS station.

Weather Forecast for Oshkosh, Wisconsin
The forecast today is for a low in the mid 60's and a high in the mid 80's with partly cloudy skies and a 40% chance of rain.

Weather Fact
The number of days in 2007 with 0.01" of precipitation or more in Portland, Maine was 122 days. (2009 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.

6/21/2009 CoCoRaHS reports (from reports at time of blog entry that looked like they might be legitimate) -
The most precipitation reported in Tennessee was 2.05" at Knoxville. There were 257 reports from Tennessee. No precipitation was reported in Sumner County, Tennessee.
The most precipitation reported in Texas was 1.69" at Roundup. There were 329 reports from Texas.
Not precipitation was reported in Tarrant County, Texas.
So far 6476 CoCoRaHS entries have been made and the greatest amount of precipitation was 3.27" at Islip, New York.

No new snow was reported.
No snow was reported on the ground.