Return-Path: Received: from mr1.harvard.net (postoffice.harvard.net [140.239.140.175]) by mas1.harvard.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id ABB53195; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:13:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Weather1.bluehill.org (wks101.bluehill.org [140.239.249.101]) by mr1.harvard.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id ANO34845; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:13:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20010713120004.00ab1100@postoffice.harvard.net> X-Sender: mdouglas.bluehill.org@postoffice.harvard.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:16:15 -0400 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Matthew Douglas Subject: BLUE HILL MA 131100 BKN 70 70/54/W-15/2986F/ LO: 55 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 FRIDAY JULY 13 2001 OUR WEB CAM IS STILL OFFLINE....since June 30 thunderstorms... We're not sure when it will get back on line as lightning has damaged the computer connected to it among several other instruments here at the Observatory. This includes the instrumentation that provides real time data to our web site. PLEASE VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT: http://www.bluehill.org/ The next meeting of the Blue Hill Observatory Weather Club.... A COOKOUT TO BE HELD HERE AT THE OBSERVATORY ON JULY 18.... THAT'S A WEDNESDAY EVENING.... time: starting at 5:00 P.M. Our featured speaker: Bruce Schwoegler, formerly of Channel 4 BOSTON Watch for more details in our daily climat reports.... DAILY DISCUSSION....11 A.M 7/13/2001 Another very pleasant day at the Observatory with relatively low dewpoints and perfect temperatures. Once again howerver, clouds are building with the daytime heating, will we get more showers today? July temperatures are averaging 2.7 degrees cooler than normal to date... DAILY OBSERVATIONS....... 8 A.M. BHO SA 1155 CLR 70 114/62/52/2511/987/ FEW CI DSNT W-N/ 8/001/ 55000 10062 20056 11 A.M. BHO SA 1455 E40 BKN 70 111/70/54/2613/986/ FEW MDT CU W-N/ 8/200/ 58003 DATA RECORDED FOR THURSDAY JULY 12... TEMPERATURES.... MAX 74 MIN 57 // ASOS MAX 74 ASOS MIN 57 NORMAL HIGH AND LOW: 81/62 MEAN 66 [ - 5 ] TOTAL DEP FOR MONTH: - 32 PRECIPITATION....ENDING 8 A.M. 7/13 24 HRS ENDING 8 A.M. ..TRACE. JULY 2001 TO DATE: 1.58 INS. DEPARTURE FOR MONTH: + 0.26 INS. YEAR 2001 TO DATE: 31.95 [ + 6.59 INS. ] WIND DATA.... PEAK GUST ASOS: 31 MPH W AT 5:41 P.M. PEAK GUST: 35 MPH W AT 5:41 P.M. PEAK GUST AERO: 34 MPH W AT 5:41 P.M. DAILY JULY 2001 DATA....AT BLUE HILL... max/min/mean/dep/precip/sun mins/%/pk gust (Aero = the aerovane wind system ) 7/1 85/54/70/+1/0.49/457/50/ 46 NW [ Aero 47 MPH NW ] 7/2 70/51/61/-8/0/903/99/ 33 WNW (Aero 36 MPH WNW ) 7/3 73/53/63/-7/0/502/55/ 29 SSW 7/4 76/61/69/-1/0/465/51/ 29 S 7/5 81/62/72/+2/0.45/519/57/ 31 NW 7/6 70/56/63/-7/0/745/82/ 29 W 7/7 77/53/65/-5/0/781/86/ 27 SSW 7/8 72/62/67/-4/0.15/018/02/ 30 S 7/9 83/62/73/+2/0/.../../ 21 S 7/10 86/61/74/+3/0.45/.../.. 40 NW 7/11 75/60/68/-3/0.04/.../.. 36 NW 7/12 74/57/66/-5/T/.../.. 35 W RECORDS FOR JULY 13 HIGH 95 IN 1894 LOW 52 IN 1888, 1895, 1939, 1973 PRECIP 3.54 INS 1996 PEAK GUST 55 MPH SE IN 1996 RECORDS FOR JULY 14 HIGH 98 IN 1952 LOW 51 IN 1895, 1937 PRECIP 1.97 INS 1960 PEAK GUST 110e MPH NW IN 1942 e = estimated gust MFD / NTC