From: Robert Skilling To: Subject: BLUE HILL MA 021000 OVC 3S-F 21/12/WNW5/2972F/ LO 16 Date: Friday, March 02, 2001 10:06 AM BLUE HILL METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY, MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02186 ELEVATION 635 FT. ABOVE MSL....10 MILES SSW OF BOSTON, MA FRIDAY MARCH 02 2001... PLEASE VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT: http://www.bluehill.org/ The next meeting of the Blue Hill Observatory Weather Club is scheduled for April 12, 2001. Our speaker will be Christine Clayburg of Channel 7 in Boston. Location of meeting to be announced. All of our daily February data to date are included on this page below.... DAILY DISCUSSION....10 A.M. 3/2/2001 FEBRUARY 2001 AVERAGED ALMOST 2 DEGREES MILDER THAN NORMAL PRECIPITATION MORE THAN AN INCH AND A HALF BELOW NORMAL SNOWFALL TOTAL OF 19 INCHES WAS ALMOST 4 INCHES ABOVE NOMRAL WINTER 2000-2001 AVERAGED VERY CLOSE TO NORMAL IN TEMPERATURE BUT VERY SUNNY...POSSIBLY RECORD SUNNY SUNSHINE 10 POINTS ABOVE NORMAL WINTER SNOWFALL OF 48 INCHES WAS SIX INCHES MORE THAN NORMAL We recorded our coldest February since 1996 but still the month averaged 1.7 degrees milder than the 30-year normal. The official meteorological winter (December, January and February) was our coldest winter since 1995-1996 and averaged just 0.1 degree below the 30-year normal. Snowfall of 48.4 inches was six inches more than the average for winter of 42 inches. This was a very sunny winter with 62% of possible sunshine in December, 51% in January and 57% in February for a winter average of 57% or ten points above normal. This may be an all-time record. FEBRUARY 2001 STATS.. Mean temp: 29.0 [ +1.7 ] High 53/20th Low 05/12th Total heating units: 1000 [ - 56 ] Seasonal heating units: 4647 [ +46 ] Total precip: 2.68 [ -1.63 ] Snowfall: 19.2 [ + 3.5 ] Peak wind gust Aerovane: 69 MPH W ON 10TH Sunshine: 57% OR 7 points above normal Winter sunshine: averaged 57% or 10 points above normal TODAY'S MANUAL OBSERVATIONS AT BLUE HILL... 3/2/2001 FRI 7 A.M. BHO SA 1155 E65 OVC 35SW- 068/17/7/3306/973/ THN SPTS INOVC FEW SC/VIRGA NNE-E HIR CLDS VSBL DSNT NW-N VSBY NNE-SE 20 PCPN VRY LGT THN K LYR ALQDS SB50 TOTAL NEW SNW PST 24HRS TRACE/ 8/5/// 53003 6000/ 10018 20016 10 A.M. BHO SA 1455 -X E50 OVC 3S-F 065/21/12/3004/972/ SUN DMLY VSBL WND L/V/ 8/5/// 56003 6000/ DATA RECORDED FOR THURSDAY MARCH 1... TEMPERATURES.... MAX 29 MIN 15// ASOS MAX 28 ASOS MIN 15 MEAN 22 [- 9] TOTAL DEP FOR MONTH: - 9 degrees PRECIPITATION.... 24 HRS ENDING 7 A.M...TRACE MONTH: TRACE[ - 0.15] YEAR: 5.83 [ - 2.78] SNOWFALL... 24 HRS ENDING 7 A.M...TRACE MONTH: TRACE. SEASON: 49.0 INS. PEAK GUST ASOS: 29 MPH WNW AT 3:38 P.M. PEAK GUST: 29 MPH W AT 3:33 P.M. PEAK GUST AERO: 33 MPH W AT 3:38 P.M. RECORDS FOR MARCH 02 HIGH 61 IN 1991 LOW -03 IN 1886 PRECIP 2.15 INS IN 1983 WIND 75 MPH NW IN 1966 DAILY FEBRUARY 2001 DATA....AT BLUE HILL... max/min/mean/dep/precip/snow/sun mins/%/pk gust (Aero = the aerovane wind system ) 1 45/30/38/+13/0/0/325/54/ 31 W 2 38/27/33/+8/0.02/0.2/060/10/24 W 3 32/18/25/-+/0/T/T/497/82/40 W (Aero 44 MPH W ) 4 30/13/22/-3/0/0/176/29/ 20 S 5 36/26/31/+6/1.55/11.5/000/00/ 46 N (Aero 60 MPH N ) 6 40/28/34/+8/0.08/1.0/411/67/ 51 NW (Aero 62 MPH NW) 7 40/27/34/+8/0/0/615/100/ 35 WNW 8 36/24/30/+4/0.12/1.6/049/08/ 23 WNW 9 46/29/38/+12/0.07/T/000/00/ 39 SSW 10 48/20/34/+8/0.01/0/536/86/ 64 W (69 MPH W Aero) 11 21/10/16/-10/0/0/625/100/ 48 NW (55 MPH NW Aero) 12 29/05/17/-10/0/0/629/100/ 30 WNW 13 43/22/33/+6/T/0.1/536/85/ 29 WNW 14 41/28/35/+8/0.05/0/152/24/ 35 SSW 15 40/27/34/+7/T/0/191/30/ 33 NW 16 38/23/31/+4/0.19/0.4/089/14/22 SE 17 34/14/24/-3/0.01/T/372/58/ 59 W (Aero 62 MPH W) 18 27/08/18/-10/0/0/644/100/ 36 WNW 19 38/17/28/+-0/537/83/ 36 SSW 20 53/33/43/+15/0/0/247/38/ 31 SSW 21 39/14/27/-1/0/0/496/76/ 44 WNW (Aero 50 MPH WNW) 22 22/08/15/-14/0.04/0.8/406/62/ 28 WNW 23 36/18/27/-2/0.13/2.8/230/35/ 37 WNW (Aero 40 MPH WNW) 24 30/19/25/-4/0/0/621/94/ 33 MPH WNW (Aero 38 MPH WNW) 25 47/23/35/+5/0.41/0.8/000/00/ 37 MPH (Aero 40 MPH S) 26 46/28/37/+7/T/0/559/84/ 41 MPH W (Aero 48 MPH W ) 27 42/24/33/+3/0/0/549/82/ 32 MPH WNW 28 28/17/23/-8/T/T/511/76/ 32 MPH WNW Matt Douglas