BLUE HILL METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02186 ELEVATION 635 FEET, 10 MILES SSW OF BOSTON, MA   DAILY DISCUSSION AND CLIMATE SUMMARY TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2008  ALL TIMES ARE IN EASTERN STANDARD TIME UNLESS NOTED   SUNSHINE THRU SOME HIGH THIN CLOUDINESS AND MILDER TEMPERATURES TODAY ALONG WITH AN INCREASING SOUTH WIND   Cloudiness mostly cleared away early today leaving us with a sunny sky and temperatures rising from a milder than normal low of 50F to the middle 60's by early afternoon.  A south wind was increasing and gusting to near 25 MPH by 2 p.m. EDT. A light haze was reducing visibility to around 40 miles.    Today's observations:   8 A.M. EDT Weather: Thin scattered cirrus, lower cirrocumulus, altocumulus layer NE-SE receding east, altocumulus chaotic other parts of sky. Temperature: 51F, Dew point: 49F,  Wind: S at 8 kts Sea-level pressure: 30.31 inches Hg, steady Visibility: 20 miles, thin fog below inversion and the summit level, few dense patches shallow ground fog to the west   6-hourly minimum temperature: 50F 24-hourly rainfall: 0.00 inch BHO SA 1155 250 –SCT 20 264/51/49/1708/031/ AC LYR NE-SE RCDNG AC CHAOTIC ALQDS FEW CC ALQDS THN FG BLO INVSN/SMT ALQDS FEW PTCHS DENSE SHLW GF W/ 8/099 51002 10051 20050   11 A.M. EDT Weather: Thin broken cirrus, few cirrocumulus, stratocumulus distant SW-NW and a few forming vicinity of the station  Temperature: 59F, Dew point: 48F, Wind: S at 11 kts, Wind: direction variability SSE to SW Sea-level pressure: 30.27 inches Hg, falling Visibility: 40 miles, northeast 50 miles  BHO SA 1455 300 –BKN 40 250/59/48/1911/027/ SC DSNT SW-NW FEW FRMG VCNTY STN FEW CC VSBY NE 50/ 8/501 58014   2 P.M. EDT Weather: Thin scattered cirrus, stratocumulus mostly SW-NW, but with a few in the vicinity of the station  Temperature: 65F, Dew point: 49F, Wind: S at 16G23 kts, Wind: direction variable SE to SSW Sea-level pressure: 30.17 inches Hg, falling Visibility: 40 miles, light haze 6-hourly max. temp: 65F  BHO SA 1755 250 –SCT 300 –SCT 40 216/65/49/1816G23/017/ SC SW-NW FEW VCTY STN FEW SCSL SW-W LWR CI DSNT W-N LGT HZ VSBY HIER NE WND 14V21/ 8/501 58034 10065 20051   WEATHER SUMMARY FOR MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, COLUMBUS DAY   TEMPERATURE (DEGREES F) MAX.....62    NORMAL.....61 MIN.....50    NORMAL.....44 MEAN....56    NORMAL.....52   DEPARTURE FROM 30-YEAR NORMAL.............+4 TOTAL DEPARTURE FOR THE MONTH............+14 (+0.9 DEGREES/DAY)   PEAK GUST AND AVERAGE WIND SPEED (MPH) PEAK WIND GUST FOR YESTERDAY............20 NE  AT 12:33 P.M. *                        AEROVANE.............15 NE  AT 12:33 P.M. *                      ASOS.................17 NE  AT  1:57 P.M.                       DAVIS................18  W  AT  N/A FASTEST MILE FOR YESTERDAY..............13  W  AT 12:23 A.M.    MAXIMUM 2-MINUTE ASOS AVERAGE...........14  W  AT 12:26 A.M.   MAXIMUM 2-MINUTE DAVIS AVERAGE..........15  W  AT 12:23 A.M.                      AVERAGE............. 8.5 ENE                    ASOS.................8.7                    DAVIS................9.1 NNE [030 deg]   * last of several occurrences....   PRECIPITATION (INCHES) THROUGH THIS MORNING (EST) TOTAL PRECIPITATION 24 HRS ENDING 7 A.M....0.00   DEPARTURE.......-0.14                          ASOS..............0.00 TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH..........0.62   DEPARTURE.......-1.20                          ASOS..............0.63 TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR THE YEAR..........43.52   DEPARTURE.......+4.10                          ASOS.............46.11 # #  Includes erroneous ASOS precipitation data on 2/13/08.   PRELIMINARY CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER 2008 CALENDAR DAY DATA DATA REPORTED: DATE: MAX/MIN/MEAN/DEP/PRECIP/SUN(MIN.)/SUN(%)/ PEAK GUST/AERO GUST AERO: Aerovane recording wind system gust when significant TSTM: Thunderstorm day (thunder heard some time during day) ....: Data not yet available, records not finalized   10/1  68/58/63/+6/0.49/120/17     38 SW   TSTM # 10/2  62/46/54/-2/0.12/455/65     45 W 10/3  62/45/54/-2/T/376/54        44 SSW  Aero 43 MPH SSW 10/4  61/40/51/-5/0.00/612/88     32 WSW 10/5  53/45/49/-6/T/000/00        18 WNW 10/6  58/39/49/-6/0.00/303/44     28 WNW 10/7  64/37/51/-4/0.00/687/100    23 WNW 10/8  69/43/56/+2/0.00/581/85     32 S    Aero 30 MPH S 10/9  72/55/64/+10/0.02/510/75    33 WSW  10/10 69/53/61/+7/0.00/664/98     29 W 10/11 68/49/59/+6/0.00/668/99     20 NNW 10/12 67/47/57/+4/0.00/625/93     21 W 10/13 62/50/56/+4/0.00/308/46     20 NE   10/14 morning low temp. 50F; our normal low is now 43F   # Thunderstorm gust    NEW DAILY RECORDS FOR OCTOBER   None...   DAILY EXTREMES Temperature and precipitation records back to 1885, and wind records back to 1940 (e = estimated):   RECORDS FOR OCTOBER 14 HIGH 79F IN 2000 LOW 28F IN 1958 PRECIP 2.69 INCHES IN 1990 SNOWFALL 2.0 INCHES IN 1913 PEAK GUST 63e W IN 1976   RECORDS FOR OCTOBER 15 HIGH 83F IN 1897 LOW 29F IN 1887,1937 PRECIP 4.58 INCHES IN 2005 SNOWFALL TRACE IN 1961,1972 PEAK GUST 69 MPH W IN 2003   TODAY'S REPORT PREPARED By: Robert Skilling