Sunday, January 15, 2006, 9:10 am: It’s hard to believe this is January. Yesterday after I wrote my weather blog, the rain kept coming down and the temperature continued to stay well into the 40s. This morning, when I telephoned the NWS in Caribou, I reported 1.40 inches of total rainfall yesterday. Today, so far, we have about a half inch of snow and a temperature of 12 degrees Fahrenheit.

The small amount of snow we have had today makes walking outside unpredictable. It is just enough snow to cover the ice, which is everywhere. This rain has a beneficial aspect too: It has melted all the snow on our roof. So our snow rake stays put for the moment. Our snow cover is down to about 19 inches.

Last week I received an email from a reader. Unfortunately their return email address didn’t work. They asked if I could post a photo of what our yard looked like without snow. Here it is, see below. It is a few years old, so the trees are bigger and a chain-link fence is there now. The view is looking east.

Current Values from our Vantage-Pro weather station:

Temperature: 12 degrees (F)

Barometer: 29.33 and steady

Humidity: 79%

Winds: N at 7 mph

Precipitation: snowing lightly ca. .50 in.

Visibility: < 1 mile

Low temp. since midnight: 12.1 at 9:06 am

High wind since midnight: 21 mph at 6:28 am

High wind on 1/15/06: 26 mph at 2:45 pm

Precipitation 1/15/06: 1.40 in. rain