DAILY DISCUSSION AND CLIMATE SUMMARY TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 2006 ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN STANDARD TIME TEMPERATURES WARMING THROUGH THE 60’S TODAY WEB PAGE AND EMAIL OUTAGE CONTINUES AT BLUE HILL The temperature had reached 66 degrees early this afternoon With prevailing southwest winds and just some high thin cloudiness. The warmer temperatures come after four con- secutive days averaging 5 degree cooler than normal. April continues to be a warm month averaging almost 4 degrees warmer than normal daily. Our bluehill.org web page has been down starting sometime on Friday, April 21, and was down all weekend and including Monday and today. I am sending daily climate emails through my home Comcast email account. However, they will not be updated on our web page until it is up and running. We’re sorry for this inconvenience. In addition, all of our individual Blue Hill email accounts have been down for the duration of the web page outage. Today's observations: 7 A.M. Weather: Clear, few clouds distant WNW-NNE Temperature: 48F, Dewpoint: 41F Wind: WSW 13 MPH Sea-Level Pressure: 29.77 inches Hg, rising Visibility: 25 miles, hazy Precip: 24 hours: trace 6-hourly min. temp. 43 deg. BHO SA 1155 CLR 25 081/48/41/2511/977/ AC DSNT WNW-NNE FEW CI SW-NW HAZY/ 8/031 53011 10048 20043 10 A.M. Weather: Mostly sunny Temperature: 56, Dew point: 42F, Wind: WSW 14G24 MPH Wind: Variable SW-W Sea-level pressure: 29.73 inches Hg, falling Visibility: 30 miles, hazy 3-hourly precip: trace BHO SA 1455 30 SCT 250 –BKN 30 073/56/42/2513G22/975/ HAZY WND 22V28/ 8/501 58008 1 P.M. Weather: High thin broken with ci/cs and cu alquads Temperature: 66, Dew point: 44F, Wind: SW 15G28 MPH Sea-level pressure: 29.67 inches Hg, falling Visibility: 30 miles, hazy 6-hourly precip: 0.00e 6-hourly max. temp. 66 deg. BHO SA 1755 300 –BKN 30 046/66/44/2213G24/967/ CU/CUFRA ALQDS LWR CS DSNT W-NW CLR SKY E HAZY WND 19V24/ 8/106 58027 10066 20048 WEATHER SUMMARY FOR MONDAY, APRIL 24 TEMPERATURE (DEGREES F) MAX.....46 NORMAL.....59 HAZEN..46.1 @ 9:39 p.m. MIN.....41 NORMAL.....40 HAZEN..40.8 @ 5:33 a.m. AVG ...44 NORMAL.....49 DEPARTURE FROM 30-YEAR NORMAL.......- 5 OTAL DEPARTURE FOR THE MONTH.......+ 95(+3.8 DEGREES/DAY) HEATING DEGREE DAYS TOTAL HEATING UNITS FOR YESTERDAY......... 21 DEPARTURE......+ 5 TOTAL HEATING UNITS FOR THE MONTH.........377 DEPARTURE..... -95 OTAL HEATING UNITS FOR THE SEASON........5324 DEPARTURE.....-615 TOTAL HEATING UNITS LAST SEASON TO DATE….5835 DIFFERENCE....-511 # # this line of data is now corrected…. PEAK GUST AND AVERAGE WIND SPEED (MPH) PEAK WIND GUST FOR YESTERDAY.........27 WSW AT 11:43 P.M. AEROVANE..........24 WSW AT 11:58 P.M. ASOS..............23 WSW AT 11:58 P.M. DAVIS.............N/A ** FASTEST MILE FOR YESTERDAY...........20 WSW AT 11:56 P.M. * MAXIMUM 2-MINUTE ASOS AVERAGE........20 WSW AT 11:59 P.M. DAVIS DATA NOT AVAILABLE…** * last of several occurrences… AVERAGE WIND SPEED AND DIRECTION... 7.3 NNE ASOS............ 7.3 DAVIS............n/a ** ** all Davis data not available due web page outage…. PRECIPITATION (INCHES) THROUGH THIS MORNING (EST) TOTAL PRECIPITATION 24 HRS ENDING 7 A.M...trace DEPARTURE....-0.14 ASOS............. 0.00 TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH..........2.13 DEPARTURE....-1.39 ASOS..............2.09 TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR THE YEAR..........11.85 DEPARTURE....-5.30 ASOS.............11.53 SNOWFALL (INCHES) THROUGH THIS MORNING (EST) TOTAL SNOWFALL 24 HRS ENDING 7 A.M......... 0.0 DEPARTURE.....-0.1 TOTAL SNOWFALL FOR THE MONTH................1.0 DEPARTURE.... -1.5 TOTAL SNOWFALL FOR THE SEASON..............52.2 DEPARTURE.....-7.2 PRELIMINARY CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR APRIL 2006.....CALENDAR DAY DATA DATA REPORTED: DATE MAX/MIN/MEAN/DEP/PRECIP/SNOW/SUN(MIN.)/SUN(%)/ PEAK GUST/AERO GUST AERO: Aerovane recording wind system when significant TSTM: Thunderstorm day ....: Data not yet available 4/1 68/46/57/+16/0.05/0/168/22 39 W 4/2 62/41/52/+10/0/0/689/90 39 WNW 4/3 61/39/50/+8/0.06/0/438/57 30 E 4/4 49/32/41/-1/0.49/0/000/00 48 E 4/5 36/31/34/-9/0.20/1.0/008/01 28 W 4/6 52/28/40/-3/0//0/607/78 33 W 4/7 59/35/47/+4/0.15/0/398/51 47 S 4/8 51/35/43/-1/0.13/T/000/00 27 NW 4/9 46/32/39/-5/0/0/527/67 25 NNE 4/10 61/33/47/+4/0/0/662/84 24 S 4/11 64/40/52/+7/0/0/522/66 18 S 4/12 67/41/54/+9/T/0/588/74 42 S 4/13 68/51/60/+15/0.02/0/231/29 45 S 4/14 70/50/60/+14/0.09/0/440/55 30 SSE 4/15 74/52/63/+17/0.01/0/345/43 38 W 4/16 59/43/51/+5/0/0/652/81 39 WNW Aero 42 MPH 4/17 58/38/48/+1/0.05/0/283/35 25 NNW 4/18 63/42/53/+6/0.03/0/284/35 35 NW 4/19 71/46/59/+12/T/0/366/45 42 NW 4/20 65/44/55/+7/0/0/808/99 35 NNE 4/21 50/40/45/-3/0/0/728/89 32 NE 4/22 50/39/45/-5/0.04/0/197/24 28 ENE 4/23 49/39/44/-5/n/a/000/00 40 E 4/24 46/41/44/-5/n/a/000/00 27 WSW 4/25 morning low temp. 43 deg; normal now 40 deg. DAILY EXTREMES Temperature and precipitation records back to 1885, and wind to 1940. RECORDS FOR APRIL 25 HIGH 80 IN 1942 LOW 24 IN 1892 PRECIP 1.38 INCHES IN 1901 SNOWFALL 0.7 INCHES IN 2002. PEAK GUST 66 MPH SE IN 1968 RECORDS FOR APRIL 26 HIGH 83 IN 1908 LOW 23 IN 1919 PRECIP 1.64 INCHES IN 1931 SNOWFALL 1.0 INCHES IN 2000 PEAK GUST 53 MPH SSW IN 1996 TODAY'S REPORT BY: Robert Skilling