BLUE HILL METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02186 TUESDAY JANUARY 14 2003 TODAY'S DISCUSSION.... TODAY LIKELY TO BE CLOSE TO THE COLDEST DAY OF WINTER TO DATE! There's been a lot of snow but so far this winter has come up without much of any cold weather except what occurred early in December. That is likely to change quite soon. December 9th, very early in the season, still holds the distinction of being our coldest of this winter but today's mean temperature will likely be very close to the 17 degrees record on December 9th. Through 1 pm our high is still the 21 degrees recorded at midnight! A light snow flurry ushered in the Arctic air last evening lasting about 30 minutes ending at 7:45 p.m. TODAY'S OBSERVATIONS... 1/14/2003 TUE 7 a.m. BHO SA 1155 CLR 60 149/12/-2/2915G22/997/ SC LYR OFFSHR DSNT NE-ESE FEW SC ALG HRZN DSNT SSE-S WNDCHILL -5/ 8/500/ 4/007 10019 20012 10 a.m. BHO SA 1455 CLR 80 169/14/0/3011/003/ SC OFFSHR DSNT NE-E/ 8/500/ 51020 1 p.m. BHO SA 1755 CLR 80 150/20/0/2912G16/997/ FEW SC OFFSHR DSNT NE-ESE/ 8/500/ 58019 10020 20011 THE DATA RECORDED FOR MONDAY JANUARY 13 TEMPERATURES ARE CALENDAR DAY MIDNIGHT TO MIDNIGHT EASTERN STANDARD TIME MAX: 34 MIN: 19 ASOS MAX: 34 ASOS MIN: 19 MEAN: 27 [ + 1 ] NORMAL HIGH/LOW/MEAN: 34/18/26/ TOTAL DEPARTURE FOR JANUARY TO DATE: + 14 degrees JANUARY IS AVERAGING 1 DEGREE WARMER THAN NORMAL DAILY PRECIPITATION FOR 01/13 UPDATED AS OF 7 A.M. 24 HRS ENDING 7 A.M.......trace TOTAL FOR ASOS............0.00 INS. TOTAL FOR JANUARY ....... 2.66 INS.(STD GAUGE) DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL....+0.66 INS. ASOS TOTAL FOR JANUARY....2.47 INS. TOTAL SNOWFALL 24 HRS.... trace JANUARY SNOWFALL TO DATE..10.3 INS. SEASONAL SNOWFALL........ 41.6 INS. PRECIP. TOTAL YEAR 2002...53.41 INS. DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL.....+2.34 INS. WIND DATA FOR MONDAY JANUARY 13 2003 PEAK GUST ASOS: 41 MPH WSW AT 7:14 P.M. PEAK GUST AERO: 45 MPH WSW AT 7:14 P.M. PEAK GUST 420C: 45 MPH WSW AT 7:14 P.M. JAN. 2003 PRELIMINARY DATA....ALL IS CALENDAR DAY DATA.... BELOW IS ORDER OF DATA REPORTED.... MAX/MIN/MEAN/DEP/PRECIP/SNOWFALL /SUNSHINE/ OFFICIAL 420C WIND GUST Aero = Aerovane recording wind system gust when significant TSTM = thunderstorm day 1/1 40/33/37/+10/0.60/T//000/00/ 48 NE 1/2 34/20/27/0/0.13/0.3/050/09/ 55 NE 1/3 35/23/29/+2/0.75/2.0/000/00 44 NE 1/4 35/24/30/+3/0.83/3.6/000/00 52 NE 1/5 31/20/26/-1/0.01/0.2/431/78 18 WNW 1/6 27/23/25/-1/0.12/1.6/000/00 18 NNW 1/7 26/15/21/-5/0.03/0.6/.../.. 28 NNW 1/8 35/15/25/-1/0.08/1.3/.../.. 30 W 1/9 37/30/34/+8/0.08/0.7/.../.. 30 SSW 1/10 36/19/28/+2/0.03/0/.../.. 32 WNW 1/11 26/17/22/-4/0/0/.../.. 42 WSW 1/12 31/20/26/0/0/0/.../.. 43 W 1/13 34/19/27/+1/T/T/.../.. 45 WSW 1/14 morning low temp. 11 degrees.. total snow on ground 7 a.m. = 7 inches THE DAILY EXTREMES...... RECORDS FOR JANUARY 14 HIGH 65 IN 1995 LOW -12 IN 1914 PRECIP 1.11 INS. IN 1921 SNOWFALL 9.0 INS. IN 1999 PEAK GUST 68 MPH WNW IN 1976 RECORDS FOR JANUARY 15 HIGH 64 IN 1995 LOW -16 IN 1957 PRECIP 2.63 INS. IN 1958 SNOWFALL 8.8 INS. IN 1983 PEAK GUST 69e MPH SE IN 1940 e = estimated today's report by: Robert Skilling