BLUE HILL METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02186 TUESDAY DECEMBER 31 2002 HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! DISCUSSION TODAY AT 1 P.M. A little snow overnight nets us 0.3 inch with 0.02 melted and then a period of light freezing rain toward dawn nets another 0.01 followed by another period of just plain rain and the final total precipitation is 0.05 inch. Our low temp. of 25 degrees occurred very early this morning and the high for the day was approaching 40 degrees early this afternoon with visibility at the summit down to ZERO in very dense fog. December 2002 will become the 3rd consecutive month to average colder than normal and it's been awhile since that's happened. At our Hingham station we had to go back to 1993-94 to find three cold months back to back! HAPPY NEW YEAR! TODAY'S OBSERVATIONS 12/31/2002 TUE 12/31/2002 TUES 7 a.m. BHO SA 1155 E20 OVC 12ZR- 222/31/30/1414/019/ FEW LWR SC ZRB1058 LGT GLZ ALL SFCS TOTAL NEW SNW PST 24 HRS 0.3 IN/ 8/52// 4/007 55013 ASOS 60001 70002 MANUAL 6001/ 70003 10031 20025 10 a.m. BHO SA 1455 W3 X 1/16F 210/33/33/1511/015/ RB15E50/ 8///// 58012 60002 1 p.m. BHO SA 1755 W2 X 0F 166/37/37/1712/002/ 8///// 56044 6002/ 10037 20031 THE DATA RECORDED FOR MONDAY DECEMBER 30 TEMPERATURES ARE CALENDAR DAY MIDNIGHT TO MIDNIGHT EASTERN STANDARD TIME MAX: 30 MIN: 19 ASOS MAX: 30 ASOS MIN: 19 MEAN: 25 [ - 3 ] NORMAL HIGH/LOW/MEAN: 35/20/27/ TOTAL DEPARTURE FOR DECEMBER TO DATE: - 32 degrees DECEMBER AVERAGES 1.3 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL PER DAY PRECIPITATION FOR 12/31 UPDATED AS OF 7 A.M. 24 HRS ENDING 7 A.M.......0.03 INS. TOTAL FOR ASOS............0.02 INS. TOTAL FOR DECEMBER........6.79 INS.(STD GAUGE) ASOS DECEMBER TOTAL.......6.60 INS. DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL....+2.38 INS.(STD GAUGE) TOTAL SNOWFALL 24 HRS.... .0.3 INS. DECEMBER SNOWFALL.........21.8 INS. SEASONAL SNOWFALL........ 31.3 INS. PRECIP. TOTAL YEAR 2002...53.39 INS. DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL.....+2.47 INS. WIND DATA FOR MONDAY DECEMBER 30 2002 PEAK GUST ASOS: 22 MPH NW AT 10:15 A.M. PEAK GUST AERO: 26 MPH NW AT 9:41 A.M. PEAK GUST 420C: 23 MPH NW AT 9:41 A.M. DEC. 2002 PRELIMINARY DATA....ALL IS CALENDAR DAY DATA.... BELOW IS ORDER OF DATA REPORTED.... MAX/MIN/MEAN/DEP/PRECIP/SNOWFALL /SUNSHINE/ OFFICIAL 420C WIND GUST Aero = Aerovane recording wind system gust when significant TSTM = thunderstorm day 12/1 35/21/28/-8/0/0/537/96/ 54 W Aerovane 53 MPH W 12/2 34/21/28/-8/000/00/006/01 29 SW 12/3 29/12/21/-14/0.08/1.2/547/98 44 NW Aerovane 50 MPH NW 12/4 28/11/20/-15/0/0/522/94 28 WNW 12/5 25/19/22/-13/0.28/3.7/000/00 22 NNW 12/6 28/21/25/- 9/0.11/1.7/000/00 22 NNW 12/7 37/20/29/-5/0/0/540/98 37 SSW 12/8 40/25/33/0/0/0/391/71/ 37 WNW Aerovane 41 MPH WNW 12/9 25/8/17/-16/0/0/545/99/ 35 NW Aerovane 39 MPH NW 12/10 37/17/27/-6/0/0/307/56/ 28 SW 12/11 40/25/33/+1/0.37/0/000/00 40 ENE Aerovane 41 MPH ENE lightning in cloud late evening 12/12 38/33/36/+4/0.87/T/000/00 44 NE Aerovane 46 MPH NE 12/13 44/32/38/+6/0.04/0/312/57 25 ENE 12/14 44/32/38/+7/1.94/0.2/000/00 53 ENE Aerovane 53 MPH ENE 12/15 43/34/39/+8/0/0/480/88 42 WNW Aerovane 45 MPH WNW 12/16 36/23/30/-1/0.41/3.7/000/00/ 31 N Aerovane 36 MPH N 12/17 25/17/21/-10/T/T/441/81/ 24 N 12/18 37/16/27/-3/0/0/545/100/ 21 NW 12/19 42/25/34/4/0/0/469/86/ 30 SW 12/20 59/37/48/18/1.07/0/000/00/ 75 S ** Aerovane 79 MPH S 12/21 43/32/38/8/T/T/360/66/ 40 WSW Aerovane 46 MPH WSW 12/22 48/31/40/+11/0/0/120/22/ 32 SSW 12/23 42/32/37/+8/0/0/300/55/ 41 W 12/24 37/29/33/+4/0/0/480/88/ 35 W 12/25 36/25/31/+2/1.37/8.5/000/00/ 66 NE Aerovane 69 MPH NE TSTM 505P 12/26 31/21/26/-2/0.22/2.5/414/76 58 WNW Aerovane 62 MPH WNW 12/27 32/19/26/-2/0/0/535/98/ 37 WNW 12/28 33/20/27/-1/0/0/262/48/ 21 W 12/29 37/24/31/+3/T/T/334/61/ 25 NW 12/30 30/19/25/-3/0.01/0.2/.../.. 23 NW 12/31 morning low temp. 25 deg. ** a new record peak gust for December 20th also new record snowfall 8.5 ins. for 12/25 and new record precip. for day of 1.37 inches. THE DAILY EXTREMES...... RECORDS FOR DECEMBER 31 HIGH 62 IN 1965 LOW -12 IN 1917 PRECIP 0.96 INS. IN 1906 SNOWFALL 6.0 INS. IN 1886 PEAK GUST 78 MPH NW IN 1990 RECORDS FOR JANUARY 01 HIGH 58 IN 1966 LOW -6 IN 1918 PRECIP 1.45 INS. IN 1982 SNOWFALL 7.2 INS. IN 1938 PEAK GUST 90e MPH S IN 1945 RECORDS FOR JANUARY 02 HIGH 62 IN 1890 LOW - 7 IN 1899,1918 PRECIP 2.10 IN 1987 SNOWFALL 9.0 INS. IN 1904 PEAK GUST 85e MPH S IN 1942 e = estimated today's report by: Robert Skilling Happy Holidays from our observers: Robert Skilling, Matt Douglas, Mike Iacono, Andrew Hoell