Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Cooling down today

As sometimes happens, the high temperature for Today occurred just after midnight and it is going to cool down rapidly during the day.

A great way to see just how fast the temperature is dropping is to look at the weather graphs: http://weather.uwaterloo.ca/UWweather_graphs.html

You can also see just how much higher the recent temperatures have been than the average high and low temperatures for this time of year, shown as green horizontal lines on the graph.

1 comment:

Tim Schuett said...

Hey, I like the fact that the U of W provides the precipitation totals in an easy to access way. By contrast, to the best of my memory, The Weather Network's Website does not provide precipitation data for the last 24 hours, for Kitchener-Waterloo. I find your GeoNor precipitation column confusing. Why does the Nov. 30, 2010, 12 A.M. amount start at 199.29? Is the 199 the weight of the bucket in grams or ounces or other unit of weight? Does the 199 represent an amount of rain water or snow flurries that has accumulated over a considerable amount of time, like days or weeks, perhaps in addition to the weight of the bucket? To make it easier for an ordinary person like me, why don't you use an automatic zero feature like on my kitchen food scale, to eliminate the weight of the bucket, showing a reading of zero at the start of every day. With my kitchen's food scale, I can adjust them, so that the weight of the scale's food bowl is cancelled out, showing only a reading of zero. Then when I weigh any food, the amount shown is the weight of the food only, and not the combined weight of the food with the scale's food bowl.
I enjoyed reading your commentary on the precipitation for Dec.2009, Jan.2010, and Feb.2010.
If I may add, my Christmas wish is that Kitchener-Waterloo has another Windsor, Ontario annual snowfall of about one meter (=100 centimeters), for the Nov.2010 to May 2011 period, just like K-W did last year. I also wish that some year soon, Kitchener-Waterloo will experience a Vancouver, B.C. annual snowfall of about 30 to 45 centimeters, for the Nov. to May period.