January thaw?

The temperature went above 0°C on Friday, January 23rd.

This was the first time it had happened since December 29th of last year and it probably won't happen again for a while.

(note I originally had the previous above zero date listed as December 28th by mistake)

UW weather station application for Mac OS

I've had this for a while but I didn't want it to get lost in all the end of year summaries.

Weather station fan Nolan Waite wrote a little application for the Mac operating system that should put the latest data from the station on the menu bar automatically.

I don't have the means to test out the application, but I encourage anybody who does to please leave feedback on the blog.

But note that the UW weather station is not responsible for the content or the operation of this application.

Contact information for Nolan is contained in the Readme file.

You can download the latest version of the application here:

UW_Weather_Mac_OS

Current version is 1.2.4, available March 20, 2009

Big freeze Day 5 (Saturday)

High temperature -8.9°C

Low temperature -20.9°C

As we are back into single digit temperatures I'm going to officially declare the end of the big freeze.

Big freeze Day 4 (Friday)

High temperature -15.1°C
(lowest daytime high temperature since February 4, 2007 when it only got up to -15.1°C)

Low temperature -19.3°C

Big freeze Day 3 (Thursday)

High temperature -11.5°C

Low temperature -28.7°C
(lowest temperature since January 28, 2005 when it was -30.5°C)