Server outage, data loss.

At 4:45 PM pacific July 19th, 2011 the computer running the weather station software locked up and died.  I didn't notice until this evening.   No weather data was recorded between 7/19/2011@4:45pm and 7/20/2011 @ 7:40 pm.

Snow and Rain mixed in late April!

Monday, and Tuesday mornings, Gold Bar has been getting accumulating snowfalls. Wednesday (Today) we had a break in the weather, however tonight a convergence has developed with cold air moving in, causing a mix of rain and snow in Shoreline/Lake Forest Park, however it looks like the center of the convergence is at the moment occurring Between Everett and Shoreline, putting Lynnwood, Edmonds, Mountlake Terrace and Brier in the bull's eye.   We may have accumulating snowfall in the area Thursday morning.

Warmest day of the year, so far...

We had a high temperature of 60.6ºF today, with sunny skies and a strong breeze.

Weather station problem

My weather station's temperature, humidity, anemometer and direction sensor array is having radio interference problems lately.  Normally when it starts to cut out like it has I've replaced the batteries, however it is still having trouble.  It's possible I got a bad batch of batteries.

     On Sunday afternoon I will have the station offline for about 1 hour for battery replacement and other misc maintenance, including cleaning and rebuilding the rain gauge.

Weather Statistics from March 5th - March 18th

Wind, Rain, and Thunderstorms, oh my!

Warmest and coldest days are based on average temperature of the entire day, starting at midnight. All other averages are based on the whole week.

-March 5^th – 11^th :

Warmest day: 46.5ºF (Wednesday the 9^th)

Coldest day: 38.5ºF (Monday the 7^th)

Rainiest day: 1.62 inches (Wednesday the 9^th)

Average temperature: 42.5ºF

High temperature: 52.7ºF (Wednesday the 9^th)

Low temperature: 32.5ºF (Monday the 7^th)

Total Rainfall: 2.46 inches

High humidity: 100%

Low humidity: 39% (Friday the 11^th)

Average humidity: 88%

High pressure: 29.619 inches (Saturday the 5^th)

Low pressure: 29.058 inches (Thursday the 10^th)

Average pressure: 29.414 inches

-March 12^th – 18^th:

Warmest day: 45.3ºF (Tuesday the 15^th)

Coldest day: 42.1ºF (Friday the 18^th)

Rainiest day: 2.28 inches (Monday the 14^th)

Average temperature: 43.6ºF

High temperature: 52.5ºF (Monday the 14^th)

Low temperature: 36.7ºF (Thursday the 17^th)

Total Rainfall: 5.84 inches!

High humidity: 100%

Low humidity: 36% (Thursday the 17^th)

Average humidity: 91%

High pressure: 29.530 inches (Tied Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, 14^th, 16^th and 17^th)

Low pressure: 29.028 inches (Sunday the 13^th)

Average pressure: 29.314 inches

Weather highlights:

-Wednesday March 9^th we had a period of heavy rainfall dump almost a half of inch of rain in 30 minutes!  We also had some breezy wind conditions, gusting to about 34mph at the Home Education Exchange center in Shoreline, also known as the old North City Elementary school.

-Thursday March 10^th we had a high wind advisory issued, later upgraded to a high wind warning for the area, with expected possible gusts to 60mph, however the highest gust I saw in the area was once again at the Home Education Exchange center in Shoreline at 42mph.

-Tuesday and Wednesday (March 15^th and 16^th respectively) we had a couple of thunderstorms roll through the area.

-We have received more rain this month, as of Tuesday the 15^th, than we normally average for the entire month of March.  So far this month we have received 9.67 inches of rain!  This is more rain than we got in January and February combined, and we still have another 2 weeks to go!

-Temperatures finally warming up a little.  We are still averaging in the lower to middle 40’s for the most part, which is more closer to normal for December and January, however we’re no longer in the 30’s mostly for average temperatures so far this month.  I’ll have more on this later when I write my seasonal report.

Weather for the coming week:

-I’m expecting more of the same, rain storms will start rolling through again at about the middle of the week, maybe sooner.  I don’t think we will get as much rain, as we have last week, but it’s not going to be dry.  Keep an eye on hill sides as the soil is still very saturated with water.

Tonight, there will be what is called a “Super Moon.”  The moon will be a full moon, and at its closest to earth that it has been since March of 1993, it will be about 14% bigger and about 30% brighter than normal.  Our cloud cover tonight may actually be forgiving enough to witness this event.  The moonrise and moonset should be spectacular if not blocked by cloud cover.  The moon will rise at 6:39 PM tonight, and it will set tomorrow morning at 6:44 AM.  The distance the Moon from the Earth is 356,642 Kilometers, or 221,607 Miles.

Windstorm today

We had a windstorm blow through today, gusting to 42mph in Shoreline.  It prompted the national weather service in Seattle to issue a Wind Advisory, which was later upgraded to a High Wind Warning.  The storm peaked at about 2:30pm and slowly died down to about 5pm, then rapidly died all the way to almost calm conditions after 5pm.   Power flickered once in a while in the North Ridge and Echo Lake neighborhoods, but as far as I know, City Light did not report any outages in Shoreline.

Excessive rainfall

At about Noon today we received 0.4 inches of rain in less than 30 minutes.

Winds gusted to 34mph today as well, wind data collected from the Home Education Exchange center, (Old North City Elementary.)