'Tis St. Patrick's Day, and a time for the wearin' of the green. It will still be quite a while before we see our world wearing anything but white. N.O.A.A. called for light scattered snow showers overnight, but I guess they got that wrong. We did not have any precipitation at all overnight. There were a few cumulus clouds around this morning (and there still are), but they seem to be drifting off to the east. The sun is shining, but we still seem to have quite a bit of wind right now, so it will not feel very warm outside today.
For today the N.W.S. forecasts decreasing cloud cover (32%/17%/10%/10%) and no precipitation for the entire day. They are also predicting significant wind and therefore wind-chills. The NEXRAD regional composite radar is clear, and there is nothing on the Weather Underground model forecast maps until sometime Wednesday afternoon. That may well be a storm of longer than usual duration. Just what we need, 2-3 days of rain.
My Weather Stick is expressionless again due to the 64% relative humidity. All three of my electronic instruments forecast fair skies with rising barometric pressure. With the sun shining and the wind blowing that does not seem surprising. Our low temperatures were, as I suggested last night, not as low as they have been lately (23.1°F/23.2°F/29.7°F). Maybe we can actually look forward to spring arriving sometime in the next month or so, once all this snow is gone. By the way my snow gauge is now only half buried under 2' of snow. At this point 2 down and 2 to go.
Low Temperature (°F): 23.1
Current Temperature (°F): 23.7
Relative Humidity (%): 64%
Dew Point (°F): 13.3
Heat Index (°F): N/A
Barometric Pressure (in Hg): 30.33
Wind Direction: Northwest
Wind Speed (mph): 5.3
Wind-Chill (°F): 17.8
Precipitation (Type): None
Amount (Inches): 0.00
Cloud Cover (AM): Partly Cloudy
Cloud Type: Cumulus
Weather Stick: Straight
Comparative data for the overnight
Temperature::33°F/35.4°F//28°F/32.0°F//25°F/29.1°F//22°F/25.8°F
Relative Humidity: 58%/64%//67%/66%//74%/66%//76%/64%
The N.W.S. did get the temperature forecast correct at all four forecast points overnight. The only point they missed with the relative humidity was at 05:00 hours. They did pretty well this time.
Forecast data for today.
Temperature: 24°F/33°F/37°F/38°F.
Relative Humidity: 65%/43%/35%/32%

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