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  • Thunderstorms developed right over our area yesterday afternoon putting an end to our dry spell.  I never did hear what the highest gust of wind was but I’m speculating that it had to be around 50-60  mph.  Ma […]

  • This morning is pleasantly cool with cloudy skies and thunderstorms in our forecast for this afternoon.   It has been over a week since we’ve had a decent rain, and with temps near 90° everyday, the ground is re […]

  • With all the complaining that we did about too much rain, now we could really use some.  We haven’t had a good rain since July 5, and with all of this heat, it is really getting dry.  Today will still be quite c […]

  • MY   rainfall   totals  for  today 0.47in    and  Stormtotal   1.61in   purdy,va

  • Today will start another surge of hot, humid weather which will continue well into next week.   This morning is cool with clear skies, and temps are expected to climb into the upper 80s this afternoon.  There is […]

  • For Thursday – July 11, 2019 !

  • Our morning is a little chilly but it feels good.  We should see the sun a little later  and this will probably be our last comfortable day for a while.  There is more extreme heat heading our way and I don’t li […]

  • Kevin Shaw posted an update 7 years, 1 month ago

    Once again I had trouble uploading any image on my blog page, so I have had to post my daily weather update here as I did a few days ago. To post this page I have had to get rid of all the usual links I have in my post.…[Read more]

  • The severe weather that was to happen yesterday never did.  In fact, we got no rain at all here.  Most of it remained in northern Michigan and the U.P.  I haven’t heard reports of any damage although some were pr […]

  • The weather service is warning that we could see severe storms later today and tonight, but this morning is clear and very pleasant.  We have a grey haze to our sky caused from the wildfires in Canada.  After a c […]

  • Well with the tremendous flooding event on Monday morning, I got behind checking out all the reports and counting all the raindrops in my rain gauge (lol) so I have another 2 day somewhat condensed report for […]

  • Although we received a few day reprieve from the stifling heat and humidity, unfortunately, it won’t last long.  I guess we have to accept that it is July and this is normal.  The weather service is saying that w […]

  • (Data Source: Netatmo Temperature Guage kindly supplied by Nathan)

    Maximum Maximum
    Apr 22.6°C (Apr 23)
    May 20.1°C (May 14th)
    Jun 26.1°C (June 28th)

    Maximum Minimum
    Apr 15.3°C (Apr 23)
    May 18.2°C (May […]

    • Hi there Harry! Good to see you posting climate summaries again. I am running behind as usual, as I just posted my May summary only a few days ago. You asked for comments about your comparison between your Netatmo station and the data from Aberporth. Well a comparison of the data sets really can’t be made because you have two very different data sets posted. Aberporth has averages of daily highs and lows, your Netatmo station shows monthly extremes. You should compile the same sort of statistic for either your station or for Aberporth. That would make what is called “apples to apples comparisons, not apples to oranges”.

      What sort of parameters can you collect with the netatmo station? I have seen it before, and I know it collects other types of data. You should publish the other data it collects in your summaries. It would be most interesting for all to see. Does it accurately collect rainfall data? Don’t you have a different gauge for measuring your rainfall? Precipitation makes for the most interesting comparisons of nearby stations. I hope you read my May summary recently, I have all kinds of climatic variables reported on/published for the month.

      Thanks again for posting data for your station there in Llanrhystud
      Kevin

    • Although the station collects data all the time, when you try and get it out it doesn’t come out as I was hoping. Instead of producing data where it shows the highest temperature and lowest temperature during any 24 hour period, it rather unhelpfully dumps the data in 15 minute intervals and does not seem to have a 24 hour max min option. If you would like, you are more than welcome to download the data yourself from April 1st to June 30th to see if you have any better luck than I seem to be having in getting daily maxes and mins.

      The rain guage is a lot simpler to understand. The daily measurements are divided by hours, weekly into six hour chunks, the monthly into daily chunks, and the yearly by week, but as I didn’t get the rain guage until June 21st, I will start covering rainfall from this month on (which is a shame as the week before we had enough rain in a week to complete a monthly tally!)

  • This weather is such a blessing after the heat of the preceding week.   Yesterday was gorgeous and we were able to turn off the AC at night for a change.  Today should be nice also with cooler, dryer air and we ca […]

  • Well with the holiday weekend over, I find that I am two reports behind (Friday and Saturday), plus the one for this Sunday. So I will do my usual condensed version that will cover all 3 days. 

    Friday was […]

  • Our weather today couldn’t be nicer.  Humidity and dew points are lower, and temperatures are comfortable with a nice breeze and clear skies.  My son was here for the weekend and we spent most of today siting o […]

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