We are probably going to only have a half of the snow of a typical winter and nobody has to tell you that it was a lot warmer than average.
But overall what did you think of the winter this year?
Cast your vote in the UW weather station winter 2010-2011 poll here.
Voting ends the first day of spring!
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Warm spell ahead
The forecast for the area now has 7 days in a row of temperatures above 15 degrees. I was not able to find this happening in the historical record for March.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
February 2012 summary
The second warmest February on record with just barely average precipitation
Sorry to keep repeating myself, but yet another very warm month that was 4.5 degrees higher than average. This makes it the second warmest February since records began in the area almost 100 years ago, and just a few tenths of a degree cooler than 1998 which was the warmest. This is now the 11th month in a row with above average temperatures.
It was the second warmest meteorological winter (Dec-Jan-Feb) just beating 2001-2002, but a full degree off of the record which was back in 1931-32. We will see how it stacks up against other astronomical winters in a few weeks.
It was the first month since August that we had less than average precipitation, but with 2.7 mm on the leap day of February 29th it put the month just barely into the average range.
Even with the warm weather the amount of snow that fell during the month (25 cm) was not that far below average (30.6 cm). The total for the snowfall season has been 76 cm which is a little less than half of the average total of 160 cm.
Summary for February 2012:
Maximum Temperature 7.8°C
Minimum Temperature -14.6°C
Average Daily High Temperature 1.4°C (Long term average –2.0°C)
Average Daily Low Temperature -5.2°C (Long term average -10.7°C)
Total Precipitation 34.4 mm (Long term average 51.3 mm)
(Long term averages based on 1971-2000 data for the Waterloo Wellington Airport)
Sorry to keep repeating myself, but yet another very warm month that was 4.5 degrees higher than average. This makes it the second warmest February since records began in the area almost 100 years ago, and just a few tenths of a degree cooler than 1998 which was the warmest. This is now the 11th month in a row with above average temperatures.
It was the second warmest meteorological winter (Dec-Jan-Feb) just beating 2001-2002, but a full degree off of the record which was back in 1931-32. We will see how it stacks up against other astronomical winters in a few weeks.
It was the first month since August that we had less than average precipitation, but with 2.7 mm on the leap day of February 29th it put the month just barely into the average range.
Even with the warm weather the amount of snow that fell during the month (25 cm) was not that far below average (30.6 cm). The total for the snowfall season has been 76 cm which is a little less than half of the average total of 160 cm.
Summary for February 2012:
Maximum Temperature 7.8°C
Minimum Temperature -14.6°C
Average Daily High Temperature 1.4°C (Long term average –2.0°C)
Average Daily Low Temperature -5.2°C (Long term average -10.7°C)
Total Precipitation 34.4 mm (Long term average 51.3 mm)
(Long term averages based on 1971-2000 data for the Waterloo Wellington Airport)
Monday, March 5, 2012
Website is having problems
I can't put this on the homepage so I'll put it here. There are some internet problems with the University and as a result the weather station homepage is stuck at 2 am Sunday morning if you can connect to it at all.
Hopefully it will be resolved soon, but it is out of my hands.
Hopefully it will be resolved soon, but it is out of my hands.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Windiest day in 10 years
At 2:30 am on the morning of March 3rd the wind speed peaked at an 42 km/h (note that this is not the highest wind gust, but rather the average wind speed over the 15 minute measurement period).
This is the highest average wind speed since March 9th, 2002. OK actually not quite 10 years but close enough.
Looking at historical records I found it interesting that although the windiest average month is January, a lot of the extreme wind records actually occur during the month of March. This includes the highest wind gust at the Waterloo Wellington airport of 120 km/h on March 30, 1981.
This is the highest average wind speed since March 9th, 2002. OK actually not quite 10 years but close enough.
Looking at historical records I found it interesting that although the windiest average month is January, a lot of the extreme wind records actually occur during the month of March. This includes the highest wind gust at the Waterloo Wellington airport of 120 km/h on March 30, 1981.
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