BLUE HILL METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02186 MONDAY DECEMBER 02 2002 DISCUSSION FOR TODAY AT 1 P.M. We're still reporting an average of one inch of snow cover here at the summit....This is down from 6 inches late last week.... MONTH OF NOVEMBER 2002 DATA November was the 2nd consecutive month to have below normal temperatures and by 1.5 degrees for the month while October was 2.2 degrees colder than normal. Thanksgiving Day was likely our coldest for that holiday in awhile with a mean temp of 20 degrees; 17 degrees below normal. The last time we had a day averaging that far below normal was on June 15th this year with a mean of 49 degrees which also averaged 17 degrees below normal. Temperatures suddenly warmed up on Nov. 30th and the day averaged 3 degrees on the mild side of normal. But December 1st it was right back below normal again averaging 8 degrees on the cold side. Mean temp. 40.3 [ - 1.5 ] [ 24 hrs corr. mean was 39.9 deg. ) HDD = 735 [ + 37 ] Precip: 7.12 [ +2.48 ins. ] Snow: 8.2 ins. [ +5.4 ins. ] Sunshine: 40% of possible or 7 points below average Peak gust: 59 MPH ENE on the 17th TODAY'S OBSERVATIONS... 12/2/2002 MON 7 A.M. BHO SA 1155 E130 OVC 50 134/26/10/2313G17/993/ SC ALG/OFFSHR NE-DSNT SE-SSE FEW LWR AC ALQDS BINOVC W-NE AND S THN SPTS IOVC SE-SW FEW HIER CLDS VSB N/ 8/571/ 4/001 53001 10026 20021 10 A.M. BHO SA 1455 100 SCT E130 BKN 220 BKN 250 OVC 50 139/30/12/2313G20/994/ OVC PTLY THN/ 8/071/ 51005 1 P.M. BHO SA 1755 E130 BKN 250 OVC 50 115/34/15/2013G18/987/ FEW LWR AC OVC PTLY THN/ WND GRDLY BACKING/ 8/071/ 56024 10034 20026 THE DATA RECORDED FOR SUNDAY DECEMBER 01 ... TEMPERATURES ARE CALENDAR DAY MIDNIGHT TO MIDNIGHT EASTERN STANDARD TIME MAX: 35 MIN: 21 ASOS MAX: 35 ASOS MIN: 21 MEAN: 28 [- 6 ] NORMAL HIGH/LOW/MEAN: 43/29/36/ NOVEMBER AVERAGED: 1.5 degrees COLDER THAN NORMAL PRECIPITATION FOR 12/02 AS OF 7 A.M. 24 HRS ENDING 7 A.M.......0.00 IN. TOTAL FOR ASOS............0.00 IN. TOTAL FOR DECEMBER........0.00 IN. DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL....-0.15 IN. TOTAL FOR NOVEMBER: 7.12 INS. [ STD. GAGE ] DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL:...+2.48 INS. ASOS NOVEMBER TOTAL.......6.74 INS. TOTAL SNOWFALL 24 HRS.....NONE NOVEMBER SNOWFALL.........7.8 INS. SEASONAL SNOWFALL.........9.1 INS. PRECIP. TOTAL YEAR 2002...46.60 INS. DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL.....+0.09 INS. WIND DATA FOR SUNDAY DECEMBER 01 2002 PEAK GUST ASOS: 51 MPH W AT 4:07 P.M. PEAK GUST 420C: 54 MPH W AT 4:07 P.M. PEAK GUST AERO: 53 MPH W AT several times in p.m. NOV. 2002 PRELIMINARY DATA....ALL IS CALENDAR DAY DATA.... BELOW IS ORDER OF DATA REPORTED.... MAX/MIN/MEAN/DEP/PRECIP/SNOWFALL STARTING 11/6/SUNSHINE/ OFFICIAL 420C WIND GUST Aero = Aerovane recording wind system gust when significantly higher TSTM = thunderstorm day 11/1 52/34/43/-4/0.01/428/69/ 39 WNW/ TSTM early afternoon/ 11/2 38/23/31/-15/T/T/618/100/ 35 WNW SNSH VERY LGT 00-01A 11/3 40/26/33/-13/0/0/523/85/ 20 N 11/4 49/32/41/-5/0.07/215/35/ 27 SSW 11/5 46/33/40/-5/0/513/84/ 24 NNW 11/6 47/37/42/-3/1.05/0/000/00/ 47 N 11/7 40/26/33/-12/T/T/411/68/ 48 WNW Aerovane 51 MPH WNW 11/8 57/26/42/-2/0/0/591/98/ 41 SSW 11/9 61/45/53/+9/0/0/054/09/ 33 SW 11/10 69/51/60/+16/0.05/0/173/29/ 50 S Aerovane 58 MPH S 11/11 66/56/61/+18/0.13/0/000/00/ 44 S Aerovane 47 MPH S 11/12 57/45/51/+8/0.90/0/018/03/ 40 NE Aerovane 43 MPH NE 11/13 45/41/43/0/0.80/0/000/00/ 32 NNE Aerovane 34 MPH NNE 11/14 49/34/40/-2/0/0/578/98/ 30 NW Aerovane 33 MPH NW 11/15 59/43/51/+9/0/0/387/66/ 31 SW 11/16 46/34/40/-2/0.70/T/000/00/ 43 NE Aerovane 44 MPH NE 11/17 43/32/38/-3/1.79/0/000/00/ 59 ENE Aerovane 60 MPH ENE 11/18 39/31/35/-6/0.24/T/046/08/ 51 W Aerovane 53 MPH W [ early morning glaze ] 11/19 41/29/35/-6/0/0/006/01/ 18 ESE 11/20 55/36/46/+6/0/0/571/99/ 20 S 11/21 51/39/45/+5/0.01/0/000/00/ 20 SSE 11/22 46/39/43/+3/0.64/0/000/00/ 22 NE 11/23 44/32/38/-1/0.01/T/263/46/ 51 W Aerovane 53 MPH W 11/24 45/30/38/-1/0/0/467/82/ 46 W Aerovane 50 MPH W 11/25 47/32/40/+1/0.02/0/112/20/ 21 N 11/26 43/33/38/0/T/0/459/81/ 25 NNW 11/27 34/17/26/-12/0.66/7.4/0/ 30 NW 11/28 27/13/20/-17/0/0/546/100/ 33 WNW 11/29 34/21/28/-9/0.04/0.8/073/13/35 SSW 11/30 44/34/39/+2/0/0/0/ 25 S 12/1 35/21/28/-8/0/0/.../../ 54 W Aerovane 53 MPH W 12/2 morning low temp. 21 deg.; MAX THRU 1 P.M. 34 deg. RECORDS FOR DECEMBER 02 HIGH 61 IN 1998 LOW 03 IN 1890 PRECIP 2.09 INS IN 1974 SNOWFALL 5.0 INS IN 1894,1929 PEAK GUST 89e SSE IN 1942 RECORDS FOR DECEMBER 03 HIGH 61 IN 1932,1950 LOW - 01 IN 1890 PRECIP 2.10 INS IN 1986 SNOWFALL 6.0 INS IN 1963 PEAK GUST 73e W IN 1942 RECORDS FOR DECEMBER 04 HIGH 67 IN 1998 LOW - 04 IN 1940 PRECIP 1.87 INCHES IN 1968 SNOWFALL 6.0 INS IN 1907 PEAK GUST 73 WNW IN 1980 Robert Skilling