BLUE HILL METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02186 ELEVATION 635 FEET, 10 MILES SSW OF BOSTON, MA DAILY DISCUSSION AND CLIMATE SUMMARY TUESDAY NOVEMBER 23, 2004 A beautiful clear day today with a high cloud layer advancing slightly from the south and temperatures into low 50's early this afternoon or some 5 degrees above the normal for the date. There was a clear sunrise this morning and it's been a completely sunny day through early this afternoon. Winds have veered around from wnw early this morning to southeast and south by early afternoon. TODAY'S OBSERVATIONS... 7 a.m. clear with 20 miles visibility and thin fog below summit and inversion; temp. 37; dewpoint 32; wind nw 08 mph; six hourly min. temp. 36; frost on grass and wood surfaces away from building BHO SA 1155 CLR 20 209/37/32/3207/015/ FEW SC OFFSHR DSNT E PTCH ACSL VCNTY STN ESE AND DSNT SSE-SSW THN FG BLO SMT AND INVSN FROST/ 8/540 53009 10039 20036 10 a.m. clear with 15 miles visibility and hazy and visibility wnw 20 miles; smoke layer west thru north; temp. 46; dewpoint 34; wind sse at 05 mph; BHO SA 1455 CLR 15 217/46/34/1504/017/ FEW CU FRMG E-SE CS LYR DSNT S-SW K LYR W-N HAZY ALQDS VSBY WNW 20/ 8/205 51008 1 p.m. clear with a high cirrostratus cloud layer to the south and a few cumulus in the distant se-s and visibility 30 miles but 45 miles wnw and only 20 miles north through east with smoke layer aloft wnw-ene; temp. 46; dewpoint 30; wind s at 07 mph; six hourly max. temp. 52 BHO SA 1755 CLR 30 197/51/30/1706/011/ FEW CU DSNT SE-S CS LYR XTDNG SE-WSW K LYR ALF WNW-ENE LGT HZ ALQDS/ 8/105 58020 10052 20037 WEATHER SUMMARY FOR MONDAY NOVEMBER 22: TEMPERATURE (DEGREES F) MAX.....50 NORMAL.....47 MIN.....38 NORMAL.....32 MEAN....44 NORMAL.....40 DEPARTURE FROM 30-YEAR NORMAL.....+ 4 TOTAL DEPARTURE FOR THE MONTH.....-33 THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER IS AVERAGING 1.7 DEG. COLDER THAN NORMAL TO DATE.... PEAK WIND GUST FOR YESTERDAY........23 W AT 1:18 P.M. ** AEROVANE.........25 WNW AT 11:06 A.M. ASOS.............21 WNW AT 11:06 A.M. DAVIS............21 WNW AT 11:05 A.M. ** last of several occurrences FASTEST MILE FOR YESTERDAY..........16 W AT 12:06 P.M. HIGHEST ASOS 2 MIN AV..............16 W AT 1:19 P.M. HIGHEST DAVIS 1 MIN AV...19 W AT 12:09 P.M. AVERAGE WIND SPEED AND DIRECTION.. 8.9 W ASOS........... 9.2 W / 270 deg. DAVIS.......... 9.7 WNW / 290 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....-1.14 ASOS..............2.20 TOTAL SNOWFALL FOR MONTH OF NOVEMBER.......7.8 TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR THE YEAR..........46.96 DEPARTURE....+1.65 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 50/38/44/+4/0/0/092/16 23 W Aero 25 MPH WNW 11/23 morning low temp. 36; normal low now 32 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 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 RECORDS FOR NOVEMBER 24 HIGH 69 IN 1931 LOW 07 IN 1897 PRECIP 1.76 INCHES IN 1901 SNOWFALL 4.5 INS IN 1936 PEAK GUST 69 SSW IN 1959 Today's report by: Robert Skilling