BLUE HILL METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02186 ELEVATION 635 FEET, 10 MILES SSW OF BOSTON, MA BLUE HILL METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02186 ELEVATION 635 FEET, 10 MILES SSW OF BOSTON, MA DAILY DISCUSSION AND CLIMATE SUMMARY MONDAY NOVEMBER 22, 2004 TEMPS. AND PRECIP. BELOW NORMAL FOR NOVEMBER WHILE SUNSHINE IS RUNNING 8 POINTS ABOVE AVERAGE Temperatures for the past week have averaged milder than normal, however the month continues with about a 2 degree negative departure. Precipitation for November is now close to one inch drier than average. Sunshine is averaging 55% or well above the normal of 47% for this month. One week of light winds averaging under 10 mph has dropped the monthly average down from near 16 mph to around 12 mph now. TODAY'S OBSERVATIONS... 7 a.m. thin broken high clouds and 15 miles visibility with thin fog in patches below the summit and visibility 45 miles above the inversion to the west-northwest; temp. and dewpoint 39 deg; wind west at 10 mph; six hourly min. temp. 39 deg 11/22/2004 MON BHO SA 1155 45 SCT 100 SCT 300 -BKN 15 210/39/39/2809/015/ PTCHY THN FG BLO SMT FEW DENSE PTCHS SE-SW-NNW VSBY ABV INVSN WNW 45/ 8/541 53001 10043 20039 10 a.m. overcast with high clouds and sun dimly visible and 45 miles visibility with 55 miles to the northwest and temp. 45; dewpoint 38; wind west at 09 mph... BHO SA 1455 140 SCT E200 OVC 45 213/45/38/2708/016/ LWR ACC NW-N VIRGA NW-N DENSE CI SUN DMLY VSB VSBY NW 55/ 8/087 50003 1 p.m. overcast with high clouds with thin spots in the overcast and dimmed sunshine with visibility of 55 miles; temp. 49; dewpoint 34; wind w at 09 mph; six hourly max. temp. 50 deg. BHO SA 1755 100 SCT E140 BKN 180 BKN 250 OVC 55 191/49/34/2708/012/ FEW SC DSNT WNW-NW FEW ACC ALQDS VIRGA ALQDS FEW THN SPTS IOVC/ 8/587 58022 10050 20039 WEATHER SUMMARY FOR SUNDAY NOVEMBER 21: TEMPERATURE (DEGREES F) MAX.....43 NORMAL.....47 MIN.....38 NORMAL.....33 MEAN....41 NORMAL.....40 DEPARTURE FROM 30-YEAR NORMAL.....+ 1 TOTAL DEPARTURE FOR THE MONTH.....-37 THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER IS AVERAGING 2.0 DEG. COLDER THAN NORMAL TO DATE.... PEAK WIND GUST FOR YESTERDAY........17 SSW AT 8:17 P.M. AEROVANE.........17 SSW AT 8:17 P.M. ASOS.............15 SSW AT 8:17 P.M. DAVIS............14 SE AT 3:14 A.M. FASTEST MILE FOR YESTERDAY..........11 SW AT 8:15 P.M. HIGHEST ASOS 2 MIN AV...13 SSW AT 8:16 P.M. HIGHEST DAVIS 1 MIN AV...12 SW AT 8:20 P.M. AVERAGE WIND SPEED AND DIRECTION.. 6.0 ESE ASOS........... 6.5 SE / 140 deg. DAVIS.......... 6.4 SSE / 160 deg. PRECIPITATION (INCHES) TOTAL PRECIPITATION 24 HRS ENDING.7 A.M....0.00 DEPARTURE....-0.16 TOTAL SNOFALL FOR 24 HRS ENDING...7 A.M....0.00 ASOS..............0.00 TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR NOVEMBER ..........2.30 DEPARTURE....-0.98 ASOS..............2.20 TOTAL SNOWFALL FOR MONTH OF NOVEMBER.......7.8 TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR THE YEAR..........46.96 DEPARTURE....+1.81 ASOS.............45.35 PRELIMINARY CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR NOVEMBER 2004......CALENDAR DAY DATA DATA REPORTED: 24 HOUR PERIODS ENDING MIDNIGHT EST DATE MAX/MIN/MEAN/DEP/PRECIP/SNOWFALL/SUN(MIN.)/SUN(%)/ PEAK GUST/AERO GUST ... SUNSHINE DATA NOT YET AVAILABLE 11/1 57/39/48/+1/0/0/594/96 35 W Aero 38 MPH W 11/2 52/36/44/-2/T/0/086/14 27 S 11/3 52/33/43/-3/0.13/0/461/75 50 WNW Aero 55 MPH WNW 11/4 46/30/38/-8/0.85/0/367/60 32 ESE Aero 32 MPH ESE 11/5 50/39/45/0/0.01/0/554/91 69 W Aero 69 MPH W 11/6 58/38/48/+3/0/0/364/60 39 SW 11/7 64/44/54/+9/0/0/581/96 45 SSW Aero 46 MPH SSW 11/8 55/32/44/0/T/T/488/81 40 WNW Aero 43 MPH WNW 11/9 38/24/31/-13/0/0/576/96 27 WNW Aero 31 MPH WNW 11/10 39/20/30/-14/0/0/496/83 35 S Aero 36 MPH S 11/11 55/34/45/+2/0/0/113/19 37 SSW Aero 39 MPH SSW 11/12 41/30/36/-7/0.46/3.2/000/00 31 NE 11/13 35/25/30/-13/0.70/4.6/077/13 30 NNW 11/14 43/18/31/-11/0/0/589/100 29 NW 11/15 52/31/42/0/0/0/587/100 28 NW 11/16 44/37/41/-1/0/0/035/06 29 NW 11/17 48/34/41/0/0/0/506/87 14 W 11/18 57/43/50/+9/0/0/070/12 22 SW 11/19 60/39/50/+9/0/0/243/42/ 25 NW 11/20 46/35/41/+1/0.12/0/115/20 20 E 11/21 43/38/41/+1/0.03/0/000/00 17 SSW 11/22 morning low temp. 39 deg. Two new daily records have been established so far this month with a peak gust of 69 MPH W as a new peak gust for November 5. A record low minimum temp. of 20 degrees occurred on November 10. OUR DAILY EXTREMES.... Temperature and precipitation records back to 1885, and wind records back to 1940 (e = estimated): RECORDS FOR NOVEMBER 22 HIGH 70 IN 1931 LOW 12 IN 1987 PRECIP 0.92 INS IN 1997 SNOWFALL 9.0 INS IN 1971 PEAK GUST 70e SE IN 1945 RECORDS FOR NOVEMBER 23 HIGH 73 IN 1931 LOW 09 IN 1888 PRECIP 2.19 INS IN 1953 SNOWFALL 5.5 INS IN 1989 PEAK GUST 64e S IN 1953 Today's report by: Robert Skilling