October 19, 2010

Westmoreland Weather
There was no precipitation in the gauge this morning. The 5:00 AM temperature was 52º F, the sky had lots of stars visible (mostly clear?), and winds were calm. The barometer reading was -0.04" since yesterday. (29.98 inches Hg on non calibrated barometer).

Forecast
Today
The forecast for today is for a low in the mid 40's, a high in the low 70's, with mostly cloudy skies, and northwest winds around 5 mph. There is a 20% chance of showers in the afternoon after 1 PM and a 50% chance of showers overnight.

The low today was 49º F and the high was 61º F. It was cloudy at 6 PM.

Wednesday
The forecast for tomorrow is for a low in the mid 40's and a high in the upper 60's with clear skies.

Thursday
The forecast for the day after tomorrow is for a low in the mid 40's and a high in the mid 70's with clear skies.

Last Years Weather on this Date
Last year on the 19th the low was 33º F, the high was 61º F, and no precipitation was recorded for the 24 hour period preceding 5:30 AM for this CoCoRaHS station.

Weather Fact
The record low for Tennessee was -32º F on December 20, 1917 at Mountain City.
The record high for Tennessee was 113º F on August 9, 1930 at Perryville.
(2010 The World Almanac and Book of Facts. When the record low or high has been recorded multiple times for a state, the latest is reported here.)

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.

10/18/2010 CoCoRaHS reports (from reports that looked legitimate as of time of blog entry) -
No precipitation was reported in Tennessee. There were 248 reports from Tennessee.
No precipitation was reported in Sumner County, Tennessee.
The most precipitation reported in Texas was 0.39" at Port Lavaca. There were 447 reports from Texas.
No precipitation was reported in Tarrant County, Texas.
So far 6344 CoCoRaHS entries have been made and the greatest amount of precipitation reported was 1.62" at Juneau, Alaska.

Reports of 4" or more:
none

No new was snow reported.
The most snow reported on the ground was 1.7" at Idaho Springs, Colorado. (This station is CO-CC-19 and they report more snow on the ground than they report new snow so far in October, I'm thinking they are either confused on how to report snow or they are not reporting their new snow correctly.)