As N.O.A.A. suggested we had a little bit of everything today. As I noted this morning it was snowing when I first took Ike out for his morning walk. While he and I were out running errands we had a little bit of rain. Finally, this afternoon while I was filling my Outdoor Wood Boiler the sun was shining, and it was warm enough to work outside in a medium weight shirt. Nice!
For the overnight the N.W.S. forecasts no precipitation, and they do expect the cloud cover to continue to decrease until 04:00 tomorrow morning (39%/34%/28%/37%). The NEXRAD regional composite radar shows the storm moving out of Eastern Maine. The storm that the Weather Underground model forecast maps had on tap for us for Friday now appears to be moving out to sea south of us. That is a wonderful thing after these Wednesday and Weekend storms we have been having for the last 3 months. We are due for some better weather.
My Weather Stick is smiling since the relative humidity was at 58% when I took my observations at 05:00 this afternoon. Two of my electronic instruments forecast fair weather and rising barometric pressure at that time. The remote weather station forecast cloudy skies with steady barometric pressure. The recorded high temperatures were well into the forties (47.1°F/48.4°F/46.2°F). Today seemed more like spring with variable winds and quite different weather conditions. This has been one of those days where people say "If you don't like the weather wait a minute and it will change." I think that we will not get as cold as we have been, but we may have more wind, so it will feel as cold. Oh well, we cannot have everything.
High Temperature (°F): 47.1
Current Temperature (°F): 37.9
Relative Humidity (%): 58%
Dew Point (°F): 24.4
Heat Index (°F): N/A
Barometric Pressure (in Hg): 29.87
Wind Direction: West Southwest
Wind Speed (mph): 4.4
Wind-Chill (°F): 35.3
Precipitation (Type): Rain
Amount (Inches): 0.04
Cloud Cover (PM): Mostly Fair
Cloud Type: Cumulus
Weather Stick: Up
Comparative data for today.
Temperature: 26°F/31.8°F//33°F/39.0°F//37°F/41.9°F//37°F/45.0*F
Relative Humidity: 100%/84%//50%/74%//72%/66%//56%/47%
The N.W.S. only correctly forecast the temperature at 08:00 and 14:00 hours. They also had only two of the relative humidity forecasts correct, and those were at 14:00 and 17:00 hours. This was not one of their better efforts.
Forecast data for the overnight.
Temperature: 36°F/31°F/27°F/24°F.
Relative Humidity: 50%/58%/60%/71%

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