Return-Path: Received: from mr1.harvard.net (postoffice.harvard.net [140.239.140.175]) by mas2.harvard.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AAB17129; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:06:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp.harvard.net (q.harvard.net [140.239.141.140]) by mr1.harvard.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id ALP30789; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:06:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Weather1.bluehill.org (wks101.bluehill.org [140.239.249.101]) by smtp.harvard.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3QJ6Q217176; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:06:26 -0400 Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20010426141221.00aad100@postoffice.harvard.net> X-Sender: rskilling@bluehill.org@postoffice.harvard.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:42:16 -0400 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Robert Skilling Subject: BLUE HILL MA 261400 CLR 50 53/08/ENE17G23/3030F/RH 15% Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed BLUE HILL METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY, MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02186 ELEVATION 635 FT. ABOVE MSL....10 MILES SSW OF BOSTON, MA THURSDAY APRIL 26 2001 PLEASE VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT: http://www.bluehill.org/ The next meeting of the Blue Hill Observatory Weather Club to be announced. SKYFEST CELEBRATION MAY 5 2001 AT BLUE HILL OBSERVATORY Make your plans now to attend our big celebration on May 5, 2001... SKYFEST 2001....It's open house at the Observatory that day with lots of activities planned. Please continue to look for updates on the event on this page. DAILY DISCUSSION....2 P.M. 4/26/2001 DESERT DRY AIR TODAY....RH 15% EARLY AFTERNOON.... SNOW PATCHES REMAIN ON SKI SLOPE... A very dry day with relative humidity early this afternoon dropping to a desert dry 15%. Several patches of man-made snow still remain on the Blue Hills Ski Area slope today. This is an usually late date for that snow to remain over there. Maximum snow depths of six to eight feet were there during the winter. DAILY APRIL 2001 DATA....AT BLUE HILL... max/min/mean/dep/precip/snow/sun mins/%/pk gust (Aero = the aerovane wind system ) 1 33/30/32/-9/T/T/000/00/ 25 NNE 2 40/29/35/-6/T/T/015/02/ 24 N (Aero 30 N ) 3 48/27/38/-4/0/0/584/76/ WNW (Aero 34 WNW) 4 51/33/42/0/0/0/479/62/ 20 SSW (Aero 22 SSW ) 5 56/33/45/+3/0/0/760/98/ 26 NNW (Aero 30 NNW) 6 58/36/47/+4/0.25/0/054/07/ 29 S 7 44/33/39/-4/T/T/398/51/ 30 NNE 8 39/32/36/-7/0.51/T/000/00/ 28 SSE 9 68/38/53/+9/0.06/0/597/76/ 24 W 10 57/41/49/+5/0.01/0/679/86/ 18 NE (Aero 20 N ) 11 56/40/48/+4/0/0/317/40/ 23 S (Aero 26 S ) 12 47/40/44/-1/0.40/0/000/00/ 23 ESE 13 63/40/52/+7/0.01/239/30/ 50 WNW (Aero 53 WNW 14 59/40/50/+5/0/0/760/95/ 46 NW ( Aero 51 NW ) 15 59/37/48/+2/0/0/723/90/ 37 NW ( Aero 38 NW ) 16 54/37/46/0/0/0/572/71/ 21 NE 17 53/37/45/-1/T/0/.../../ 24 ENE 18 51/31/41/-6/0.33/0.9/.../../ 38 NNW (Aero 40 NNW ) 19 52/29/41/-6/0/0/.../../ 31 WNW 20 65/36/51/+4/0/0/743/91/ 33 WSW 21 66/46/56/+8/T/0/707/87/ 35 S 22 85/51/68/+20/0.01/0/682/83/ 47 WNW (Aero 53 MPH WNW ) high temp. equaled the record... 23 78/51/65/+17/0/0/709/86/ 30 S 24 82/49/66/+17/T/0/695/84/ 39 WNW (Aero 42 MPH WNW ) new record high temp. 25 55/44/50/+1/0/0/033/04/ 37 WNW ( Aero 40 MPH WNW ) 26 morning low temp. 41 THE DAILY MANUAL OBSERVATIONS.... 4/26/2001 THU 8 A.M. BHO SA 1155 200 SCT 250 BKN 30 264/43/27/0509/031/ DENSE CI LYR XTDNG FRM NR OVHD-NE-SSW MSTLY CLR SKY SW-N THN K LYR ALG HRZN S-W-N VSBY SE 20 WNW 50/ 8/002/ 53014 10044 20041 11 A.M. BHO SA 1455 200 SCT 250 SCT 50 274/49/14/0614G18/034/ DENSE CI LYR XTDNG NNE-S CLR SKY SW-N EDGE OF CI LYR OVHD SLWLY RCDNG WND 01V10/ 8/002/ 51010 2 P.M. BHO SA 1755 CLR 50 262/53/8/0615G20/030/ DENSE CI DSNT NE-SSE WND 03V09/ 8/002/ 58012 10055 20043 DATA RECORDED FOR WEDNESDAY APRIL 25 TEMPERATURES.... MAX 55 MIN 44 // ASOS MAX 55 ASOS MIN 44 NORMAL HIGH AND LOW: 58/39 MEAN 66 [+ 1 ] TOTAL DEP FOR MONTH: + 62 degrees April is averaging 2 degrees WARMER THAN NORMAL..... PRECIPITATION....ENDING 8 A.M. 4/26/2001 24 HRS ENDING 8 A.M...0.00 MONTH: 1.58 [ - 1.82 IN. ] YEAR: 20.48 [ + 4.35 INS. ] SNOWFALL... 24 HRS ENDING 8 A.M...0.0 MONTH: 0.9 IN. SEASON: 91.3 INS. NORMAL SEASONAL TOTAL ABOUT 60 INCHES.... WIND DATA.... PEAK GUST ASOS: M MPH M AT *** PEAK GUST: 37 MPH WNW AT 1:04 A.M. (420C chart) PEAK GUST AERO: 40 MPH WNW at 1:04 A.M. *** ASOS data not available due malfunction RECORDS FOR APRIL 26 HIGH 83 IN 1908 LOW 23 IN 1919 PRECIP 1.64 INS 1931 WIND 53 MPH SSW IN 1996 Robert Skilling...