Although the official high temperature for Tuesday, October 21st was 8.2°C, that happened at midnight.
So the "daytime" high was only around 4°C, which makes it a very cold day.
It was also the first time I can remember seeing the Windchill graph appear on the Weather Graphs page since the spring.
But we didn't see any of the snow that was predicted by some of the long range forecasts from last week.
OK maybe some of the precipitation I saw today looked kind of solid, but I didn't see anything that could be actually be classified as snow.
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As a forecaster for the weather network, I do like to see the reading for Waterloo from time to time, but the wind graphs always seem to be much lighter than the others areas. Sustained winds were easily over 30 km/h for much of the day, with gusts over 50km/h from London to Toronto. Your windspeeds never went over 20km/h. Time to calibrate your anemometre.
From the UW weather station FAQ:
Q: Why is the wind speed reported on the UW weather station website always seem to be lower than values reported on other local weather websites?
There are three factors that probably all contribute to the lower wind speed values at the UW weather station:
1.) The wind speed readings at the UW weather station are averaged over 15 minutes and thus we lose the wind gusts. I'm not sure over what time period the Environment Canada website averages their wind speed but this can have a large effect on the readings.
2.) Another consideration is that the UW weather station is relatively low compared to its surroundings and thus may be somewhat shielded from the wind.
3.) The wind speed readings at the UW weather station are taken at 3 m whereas the standard wind speed height is 10 m. To get the 10m wind speed you have to multiply the 3m wind speed by 1.5.
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