Return-Path: Received: from mr1.harvard.net (postoffice.harvard.net [140.239.140.175]) by mas2.harvard.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AAC30710; Thu, 17 May 2001 10:05:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Weather1.bluehill.org (wks101.bluehill.org [140.239.249.101]) by mr1.harvard.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id ALX25127; Thu, 17 May 2001 10:05:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20010517095532.00aaca00@postoffice.harvard.net> X-Sender: mdouglas.bluehill.org@postoffice.harvard.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:05:30 -0400 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Matthew Douglas Subject: BLUE HILL MA 170800 LO OVC 10 49/45/WNW-7/3008R/ RTOT: 0.23 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 MAY 17 2001 PLEASE VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT: http://www.bluehill.org/ The next meeting of the Blue Hill Observatory Weather Club to be announced. All of our daily May data is contained on this page below. DAILY DISCUSSION....8 A.M 5/17/2001 A NOR'EASTER YESTERDAY? Well, it certainly seems like it with NE winds gusting as high as 41 mph here on the summit and several hours of light rain and drizzle which had accumulated to almost 1/4 inch (0.23) by late morning and that includes 0.03 inch for Tuesday. The precipitation had pretty much ended by 11 A.M. This is the most rainfall since mid April. The dry spell continues but a least a little rainfall for the very topmost layer of soil. Temperatures held in the middle to upper 40's yesterday, which made the day average 11 degrees below normal. THE DAILY MANUAL OBSERVATIONS.... 8 A.M. BHO SA 1155 25 SCT E50 OVC 10 187/49/45/3007/008/ FEW SCSL NE-SE WND LGT HAZY/ 8/4/// 53014 70010 10049 20046 DATA RECORDED FOR WEDNESDAY MAY 16.... TEMPERATURES.... MAX 47 MIN 45 // ASOS MAX 47 ASOS MIN 45 NORMAL HIGH AND LOW: 67/46 MEAN 46 [-11] TOTAL DEP FOR MONTH: + 126 degrees May is averaging 08 degrees warmer than normal for the first 16 days.. PRECIPITATION....ENDING 8 A.M. 5/17/2001 24 HRS ENDING 8 A.M...0.10 THE MONTH OF MAY: 0.25 [ - 1.75 INS.] YEAR: 20.73 [ + 1.93 INS. ] WIND DATA.... PEAK GUST ASOS: 39 MPH NE AT 8:42 A.M. PEAK GUST: 39 MPH NE AT 8:42 A.M. PEAK GUST AERO: 40 MPH NE at 8:42 A.M. DAILY MAY 2001 DATA....AT BLUE HILL... max/min/mean/dep/precip/sun mins/%/pk gust (Aero = the aerovane wind system ) 1 85/58/72/+20/0/786/93/ 28 E 2 92/62/77/+25/0/796/94/ 24 WNW 3 92/66/79/+27/0/782/92/ 32 W 4 90/66/78/+25/0/699/82/ 28 WNW 5 71/45/58/+5/0.01/418/49/ 30 NNE 6 54/38/46/-7/0/839/98/ 30 ENE 7 68/35/52/-2/0/859/100/ 24 S 8 72/39/56/+2/0/862/100/ 27 S 9 74/45/60/+6/0/795/92/ 24 SW 10 81/47/64/+9/0/823/95/ 24 NW 11 85/58/72/+17/0/746/86/ 24 SSE 12 88/58/73/+18/T/626/72/ 43 W 13 61/48/55/-1/0/044/05/ 32 NNW 14 66/42/54/-2/0.01/.../../ 37 NW 15 55/46/51/-5/0.03/.../../ 32 NE (Aero 35 MPH NE ) 16 47/45/46/-11/0.20/.../../ 39 NE (Aero 40 MPH NE) RECORDS FOR MAY 17 HIGH 88 IN 1977, 1974 LOW 34 IN 1956, 1957 PRECIP 1.63 INS 1978 WIND 52 MPH SW IN 1967/W IN 1974 RECORDS FOR MAY 18 HIGH 88 IN 1906, 1936, 1986 LOW 36 IN 1891, 1983 PRECIP 1.38 INS 1970 WIND 64 MPH SSW IN 2000 MFD