We seemed to have more clouds than N.O.A.A. predicted during the day today, starting fairly early this morning. About half an hour ago I checked outside and the clouds had, for the most part dissipated leaving us with only a few cumulus clouds and partly fair skies. It seems to have gotten a bit warmer than it was expected to (39.7°F/36.9°F/38.1°F) as shown by the high temperatures recorded by my electronic instruments.
The N.W.S. forecasts no precipitation overnight, and they expect the cloud cover to dissipate even more (3%/3%/0%/3%). There are once again no echoes on the NEXRAD regional composite radar. The Weather Underground model forecast maps still show a large storm off shore. It looks like tomorrow will be a day much like today with another little storm coming in for tomorrow night into Wednesday. This one is only expected to leave us with a small amount of snow (maybe an inch according to the TV prognosticators. We are going to have snow, so it must be Wednesday.
My Weather Stick is smiling still, and with relative humidity of 49% I cannot blame it. Two of my electronic instruments forecast fair skies overnight with rising barometric pressure. My remote weather station sees falling barometric pressure with cloudy conditions. I see that the pressure has started to fall on the remote weather station and the La Crosse Weather Station, so we may be in for some less than perfect weather on its way. I certainly seems that we have Wednesdays and weekends for our storms. We got lucky last weekend, and did not have a storm.
High Temperature (°F): 39.7
Current Temperature (°F): 28.5
Relative Humidity (%): 49%
Dew Point (°F): 11.8
Heat Index (°F): N/A
Barometric Pressure (in Hg): 30.22
Wind Direction: Calm
Wind Speed (mph): 0.0
Wind-Chill (°F): 28.5
Precipitation (Type): None
Amount (Inches): 0.00
Cloud Cover (PM): Partly Fair
Cloud Type: Cumulus
Weather Stick: Up
Comparative data for today.
Temperature: 17°F/5.9°F//28°F/25.7°F//33°F/39.0°F//33°F/39.7F
Relative Humidity: 46%/63%//33%/48%//29%/43%//30%/43%
The N.W.S. did not do as well today as they did overnight. They only forecast one temperature correctly, and that was at 11:00 hours. They missed all four relative humidity forecasts for today.
Forecast data for the overnight
Temperature: 27°F/21°F/14°F/7°F.
Relative Humidity: 35%/43%/53%/72%

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