BLUE HILL METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS ELEVATION 635 FEET, 10 MILES SSW OF BOSTON, MA DAILY DISCUSSION AND CLIMATE SUMMARY THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2015   ALL TIMES ARE IN EASTERN STANDARD TIME WARM, DRY START TO NOVEMBER CONTINUES AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB INTO THE 70S TODAY A warm front dragged through the region overnight, bringing damp, foggy and warm conditions. Temperatures dropped to a seasonably warm 51F overnight, with dense fog early this  morning. Skies cleared during the 7:00 AM EST observation, and by 10:00 AM EST temperatures had reached the mid 60s. By the 1:00 PM EST observation temperatures had climbed to a maximum of 72F, just 4 degree shy of today's daily  record of 76F set back in 1994. Altocumulus was becoming more overspread, creating mostly cloudy conditions. PRELIMINARY STATS FOR OCTOBER 2015 TEMPERATURE, Deg. F Avg. Max. 59.9 [-0.4] Avg. Min. 43.1 [+0.2] Mean      51.5 [-0.1] Corrected mean: 51.1 Max. for month: 76 on 12th Min. for month: 26 on 19th COOLING DEGREE DAYS Total cooling units: 0 [-5]   Total for the season: 810 [+208] Total for last season: 595 HEATING DEGREE DAYS Total heating units: 411 [-10]   Total for the season: 454 [-109] Total for last season: 422 PRECIPITATION, Inches Total: 2.69 [-2.00] Greatest in 24 hrs: 1.58 from 28th-29th   WIND, mph Avg. uncorrected wind speed: 12.6 Avg. corrected wind speed: 12.9 Prevailing wind direction: NNW @ 13% Peak gust and direction: 53 SSE on the 28th, S on the 29th SUNSHINE: Campbell-Stokes card minutes: 11238/19824 or 57% Astronomical total minutes:   11666/20566 or 57%     Today's Observations: 7 A.M. Weather: Partial fog, scattered stratus fractus, scattered altocumulus Temperature: 55F; Dew Point: 54F; Wind: SSW at 14 kts, Sea-level pressure: 30.28 ins. Hg, steady, then falling Visibility: 9 miles, except 4 miles WSW-NNW, obscured by partial fog 6-hr Max temp: 55F  6-hr Min temp: 51F 24-hr precip: 0.00 ins.  BHO SA 1155 X- 5 SCT 110 SCT 9F 253/55/54/2114/028/  VSBY WSW-NNW 4 MI PARTIAL FG/ 8/730 57004 10055 20051 10 A.M. Weather: Scattered altocumulus Temperature: 66F; Dew Point 57F; Wind: WSW at 15G20 kts Sea-level pressure: 30.26 ins. Hg, falling, then more quickly Visibility: 35 miles, thin fog BHO SA 1455 110 SCT 35 248/66/57/2415G20/026/  THN FG ALQDS/ 8/030 58005 1 P.M.  Weather: Broken altocumulus, few cumulus E-NNE, few altocumulus lenticularis distant S Temperature: 70F; Dew Point 57F; Wind: SW @ 14G21 kts   Sea-level pressure: 30.21 ins. Hg, falling then more slowly  Visibility: 40 miles, except 65 miles WNW-E, light distant haze 6-hr max. temp. 72F 6-hr min. temp. 55F BHO SA 1755 E100 BKN 40 230/70/57/2214G21/021/  VSBY WNW-E 65 MI FEW CU E-NNE FEW ACSL DSNT S  LGT DSNT HZ ALQDS/ 8/130 56018 10072 20055 SUMMARY FOR WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2015     TEMPERATURE (DEGREES F) MAX.....66   NORMAL.....54 MIN.....49   NORMAL.....37  MEAN....58   NORMAL.....45    DEPARTURE FROM 30-YEAR NORMAL.....................+13 TOTAL DEPARTURE FOR THE MONTH.....................+40  [+9.8 DEGREES/DAY] HEATING DEGREE DAYS (SEASON JUL TO JUN) TOTAL HEATING UNITS FOR YESTERDAY...............7   DEPARTURE.........-13 TOTAL HEATING UNITS FOR THE MONTH..............37   DEPARTURE.........-40 TOTAL HEATING UNITS FOR THE SEASON............491   DEPARTURE........-149 TOTAL HEATING UNITS LAST SEASON TO DATE.......513   DIFFERENCE........-22   PEAK GUST AND AVERAGE WIND SPEED (MPH) PEAK WIND GUST FOR YESTERDAY...................22  SSW AT 11:27 P.M.                         ASOS........................24  SSW AT 11:28 P.M.                           DAVIS.......................23  SSW AT 11:27 P.M. RMY N/A FASTEST MILE FOR YESTERDAY.....................18  SSW AT 11:09 P.M.  MAXIMUM 2-MINUTE ASOS AVERAGE..................18  S   AT 11:11 P.M.          MAXIMUM 2-MINUTE DAVIS AVERAGE.................18  SSW AT 11:08 P.M.         AVERAGE WIND SPEED AND DIRECTION................9.0 SSW                     ASOS.........................8.9                         DAVIS........................8.2 S [188 Deg.]  *ADDITIONAL PEAK GUST OR FASTEST MILE OCCURRENCES PRECIPITATION (INCHES) THROUGH THIS MORNING (EST) TOTAL PRECIPITATION 24 HRS ENDING 7 A.M.....0.00  DEPARTURE.....-0.16                          ASOS...............0.00 TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH..........TRACE  DEPARTURE.....-0.63                          ASOS...............0.00 TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR THE YEAR...........36.83  DEPARTURE.....-7.57                            ASOS................N/A *** *** ASOS annual total not available due to erroneous readings PRELIMINARY CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER & NOVEMBER CALENDAR DAY DATA   DATA REPORTED: DATE: MAX/MIN/MEAN/DEP/PRECIP/SUN(MIN.)/SUN(%)/ PEAK GUST/RMY GUST RMY:  R.M. Young wind gust recording system TSTM: Thunderstorm day (thunder heard some time during day) ....: Data not yet available, records not finalized 10/1  55/51/53/-4/0.03/000/00               39 NE  RMY N/A 10/2  51/47/49/-8/0.18/000/00               40 NE  RMY 43  10/3  51/45/48/-8/0.31/000/00               38 NE  RMY N/A  10/4  55/49/52/-4/0.00/474/68               35 E   RMY 40 10/5  59/46/53/-3/T/125/18                  21 NE  RMY 20  10/6  68/43/56/+1/0.00/663/96               17 NW  RMY 17 10/7  69/46/58/+3/0.00/640/93               20 W   RMY 20 10/8  63/49/56/+2/0.00/678/99               21 S   RMY N/A 10/9  68/50/59/+5/0.27/130/19               45 S   RMY 49 10/10 59/44/53/-2/0.00/673/99               33 NNW RMY N/A  10/11 67/46/57/+4/0.00/582/86               26 SW  RMY 28 10/12 76/50/63/+10/0.00/647/96              22 SSW RMY 24 10/13 70/55/63/+10/0.27/208/31              23 S   RMY 24 10/14 66/46/56/+4/0.00/428/64               26 W   RMY 29 10/15 60/41/51/-1/0.00/659/99               20 SW  RMY 27 10/16 60/44/52/+1/T/471/71                  31 W   RMY 34 10/17 54/35/45/-6/T/482/73                  30 WNW RMY 33 10/18 45/28/37/-14/0.00/480/73              24 NNW RMY 25 10/19 47/26/37/-13/0.00/648/99              25 SSW RMY 30   10/20 65/43/54/+4/0.00/306/47               28 SW  RMY 28 10/21 59/51/55/+5/0.01/039/06               18 SSE RMY 21   10/22 71/51/61/+12/T/149/23                 31 W   RMY 34 10/23 55/34/45/-4/0.00/541/84               31 NNW RMY 34 10/24 46/33/40/-9/0.00/000/00               15 SSE RMY N/A    10/25 59/44/52/+3/0.04/019/03               29 N   RMY 31 10/26 53/38/46/-2/0.00/636/100              23 NNW RMY 20 10/27 56/35/46/-2/0.00/531/81               15 SE  RMY N/A 10/28 64/44/54/+6/0.63/019/03               53 SSE RMY N/A 10/29 72/52/62/+15/0.95/257/41              53 S   RMY N/A  10/30 59/38/49/+2/0.00/626/100              33 WNW RMY 35 10/31 54/32/43/-4/0.00/573/92               18 SSW RMY N/A  11/1  59/45/52/+6/T/.../..                  30 SSW RMY 31   11/2  62/47/55/+9/0.00/.../..               24 W   RMY N/A 11/3  71/44/58/+12/0.00/.../..              25 W   RMY 25 11/4  66/49/58/+13/0.00/.../..              22 SSW RMY N/A 11/5 low since midnight is 51F; normal low is now 37F   DAILY RECORDS FOR OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER 2015 -NONE   DAILY EXTREMES Temperature and precipitation records back to 1885, and wind records back to 1940 (e = estimated): RECORDS FOR NOVEMBER 5 HIGH 76 IN 1994 LOW 18 IN 1908 PRECIP 4.26 INCHES IN 1955 SNOWFALL 1.5 IN 1892 PEAK GUST 69 W IN 2004 RECORDS FOR NOVEMBER 6 HIGH 71 IN 1959 LOW 22 IN 1951 PRECIP 1.72 INCHES IN 1907 SNOWFALL 8.0 IN 1894 PEAK GUST 63 W IN 1973 TODAY'S REPORT PREPARED BY: Brian Fitzgerald