As I noted this morning, N.O.A.A. had us in for some interesting weather. Well, none of it came to pass. It did remain cloudy to partly cloudy all day, and the wind kept things a bit interesting. If there had been black flies they would have been unable to light. I did see a couple of mosquitoes this morning when I filled the tub for the critters. This afternoon I started cutting some of the 5 loads of wood that are sitting in my side yard. I want to try to get that all cut and split before the snow is too deep to get to it. It has gotten windy this afternoon, and as the temperature has gone down we can really feel it. The wind has fangs let alone teeth. What a bite.
For the overnight the N.W.S. forecasts light scattered snow showers for the first half of the night and no precipitation for the second half. I looked at the NEXRAD regional radar, and they show no echoes for our area, so I do not believe we will get those showers. The Weather Underground model forecast maps also do not show any precipitation for the overnight. They do show a pretty good storm affecting us with some frozen precipitation from 12:00 hours Thursday through 09:00 hours Friday. If it happens, and with the track record so far I have doubts, it would be our first significant storm of the season.
My Weather stick is frowning some as a result of the 74% relative humidity. All three of my electronic instruments indicate that high pressure is moving in, and indeed I see that the barometric pressure has risen. Two of them now predict fair skies overnight while the remote weather station forecasts cloudy skies. The high temperatures have reached into the mid-forties with the La Crosse Weather Station ;recording 44.4°F, the Min/Max Thermometer recording 45.4°F and the remote weather station seeing a high of 41.2°F in the barn. I think we will see the clouds continue to move off to the east, and the temperature plummeting into the low to mid-twenties. I do not think we will see any precipitation overnight.
High Temperature (°F): 44.4
Current Temperature (°F): 38.8
Relative Humidity (%): 74%
Dew Point (°F): 31.2
Heat Index (°F): N/A
Barometric Pressure (in Hg): 29.80
Wind Direction: Southwest
Wind Speed (mph): 6.7
Wind-Chill (°F): 31.6
Precipitation (Type): None
Amount (Inches): 0.00
Cloud Cover (PM): Mostly Cloudy
Cloud Type: Cumulus
Weather Stick: Down
Comparative data for today.
Temperature:40°F/34.7°F//43°F/40.6°F//42°F/40.8°F//38°F/38.8°F
Relative Humidity: 70%/90%//62%/91%//65%/71%//64%/73%
For the third period in a row the N.W.S. had the temperature correctly forecast with 52°F. They did not do as well with the relative humidity. They only had the last two points for the period forecast correctly, still they had 6 out of eight forecast points within limits.
Forecast data for the overnight.
Temperature: 31°F/26°F/24°F/21°F
Relative Humidity: 70%/78%/77%/77%

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