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I can answer that question for you. @Voyagerhas the Ambient Weather WS-2000. I whole-heartedly endorse Ambient's products. I've had the WS-2902 model for 3 years and it has worked flawlessly. Ambient has revised the firmware in the 2902 4 times since introduction, so current model is WS-2902C. Retails for $169.99, but occasionally goes on sale for 15% off. The 2902 and the 2000 both use the exact same outdoor sensor assembly. The only difference is the type of display they use for the 2 models. The WS-2000 uses a pure LED display with a wide viewing angle. The 2902 uses a TFT film display, which works great but you have to adjust your viewing angle to have it display completely and brightly. I have mine placed right next to my La-Z-Boy on a table whose height is about the same as my head position in my chair. The display comes with a support base that intentionally angles the display top-forward. You just need to experiment a little. As for Voyager's comment about battery backup, the 2902 does come with that which means that during any power outage, the display goes off but the unit continues to operate normally. The other thing that happens with no power is the unit stops transmitting over your wifi until power is resumed. I don't know off the top of my head what the WS-2000 costs but I'm pretty sure it's in the high 200's (not on sale). PM me if you want any additional info.

Hi All. Wishing everyone a safe, happy, and healthy New Year. Each NYE I think about the weather extremes I've experienced on this day/night. Tonight, with a current temp of 50 degrees is certainly in the upper range of temps going into midnight. I'm sure there have been higher readings well into the 50's but I can't remember them now. At the other end of the scale are definitely some frigid evenings with temps in the teens down to 10 above. One year in the past 10 had that frigid temp in Times Square at midnight. For those other numbers persons out there I thought I would share a few statistics from my station. This month which is about to end is the driest month in years and could possibly go back to 1989 that had such a frigid December that it was incredibly dry with only 0.63" of liquid for the month. December 2021 is going out with an incredibly dry 1.06" which includes the 0.40" of melted snow from earlier in the week when I measured 1.9" of snow. Last month, November, was the second driest month of this year with just 1.88". My annual precipitation total ends with 42.25" which is pretty close to the average. Despite the final two months of this year having less than 2" for the month, I recorded 4" or more for 4 months out of the 12 which were February, July, August, and September. We all know how wet September was. I recorded 9.31" that month. So 2021 has seen some pretty wild swings in monthly precip totals. I wonder how wild things will be in 2022? I'll throw one last statistic in to this report which were my lowest and highest temps for the year. The lowest was 12.6 degrees (no single digit lows) and the highest was 98.1.

That's great! Total confirmation. Thanks!

Thanks you for this info. It is nice to have supporting obs! Your ratio is crazy...yet makes sense. I had 99.9% snow for the event yesterday. Just a very little bit of sleet just before it stopped completely. Temp was 31.1 an hour ago with a fair amount of fog, but not as dense as you reported. It's lifting now and the temp is up to 32.7.

@Cashtown_Coop, or @MAG5035, or to anyone else who melts down their snowfall to obtain a liquid equivalent: I just went outside and brought in my clear-vue gauge to melt down today's 1.9" of snowfall. I was pretty surprised at what I saw. I received 0.40" of liquid from 1.9" of snow which equates to a ratio of just 4.75 : 1 !! Typically you only see these low ratios with a lot of sleet. I know my snow this morning was wet but I didn't think it was THAT wet. I am very anxious to see what others near my area got for their liquid equivalent and ratio. Thanks in advance. PS>>>My temp is now down to 32.2 degrees. Oh so tantalizingly close for a bit of freezing rain.

You're welcome! Snow storm obs are what bring me out with the majority of my posting. At 9:56pm I've just had a moderate rain shower. The temp has dropped from 33.1 to 32.4. It's not likely to go below 32.0. We do need the precip, but I would love to hold on to my snowcover a bit longer. Most will be gone by later tomorrow.

33.4 here now after a high of 35.2. Snow slowly compacting but still around 1.3".

Well, surprisingly, that last burst lasted long enough to add an additional 0.3" to my total. So my event total is 1.9". Snow has just stopped completely here. Temp 32.9.

Looks like one last burst now with big flakes again, but very wet. Not likely going to add to final total but we'll see. Temp down to 32.7. >>Edit...intensity up to moderate.

Go back to Thurmont!

A very nice 1.6" has fallen. Not surprised since my grass is barely visible. I thought that the end of accumulating snow had reached me but as I speak it's starting to pick back up again...lol. I'll take another measurement either when the changeover begins or at noon, whichever comes first. Temp up to 32.9.

Well it's winding down here, now only very light snow. I'm going to wait until 11:00 to take what will be the final measurement before the mix arrives. Temp up to 32.4.

You'll drop to 33 at least. Hopefully you catch the really heavy band I had.

Back to big flakes heavy again. Radar shows one more pretty solid heavy push coming this way from Shippensburg. If this keeps up I'll reach 2". My grass is slowly disappearing. At 2" it completely disappears. Temp still 32.2 with barely any wind.

Just went out and measured the snowboard. Already have reached 1.0" So this rate has been around 1.5"/hr. It's just beginning to show signs of lightening up.

If only this could have been 2 days ago. Temp down to 32.2. I should make it to 32.0 or even a bit lower if this heavy snow keeps up. Great flake size that accumulates quickly. Easily 1"/hr rates.

Snow started here about 30 minutes ago and rather quickly has increased to heavy! Temp was 35 and just dropped to 32.4. Everything is white and it looks like I've picked up 0.5" so far. Yay!

Are you sure about those temps being from last year? I remember observing flurries during the afternoon of Christmas day. There's no way it was 64 unless it occurred at 12:01am and then dropped 25 degrees before noon.

Everybody get out your party hats. Winter officially begins in 2 minutes (10:59)!!!

I talked about this a day or two ago. After Saturday night's light event (0.14") I'm now up to 0.27" M-T-D. Driest Dec I've ever witnessed was back in 1989 with 0.63".

I'm afraid I'm in that same group with you now myself. Especially when it's windy.

Well...not only did I break 20 for my low, I made it down to 15.6 F this morning...finally!

At 11:15pm I'm down to 24.3 with a dew point of 20. I'm pretty sure my coldest this season so far has been 23. With clear moonlit skies and calm winds I think I've got a shot at close to 20 by morning. I'm just wondering when I'll finally break 20 and reach the teens. I think a low in the teens came really late last winter as well. Last winter my coldest low for the entire season was just +5 F! I think I only had that one single digit low just once all season. And the winter before that my coldest was just +9 F. Single digits have been few and far between over the last few years. Of course, a nice snowpack does wonders for getting low temps down closer to zero at least a few times in any given winter.

Okay...okay...everybody wishing for a west-based NAO can please stop wishing! The center of the high heights have overshot and aren't even over Greenland on these maps.

I'm going with 38 degrees on Christmas day. By the way, the first 17 days of this month for me are among the driest I've seen since 1989. That was a December to remember. I had a total of only 0.63" of precipitation for the entire month, most of that occurring during the final 6 hours of the month! It was absolutely the coldest December I've ever lived through. Temperatures for the month were 10 degrees below normal. I remember my average low temp for the month was 14 degrees (this was in northern NJ). It was so cold (and dry!) that there was no liquid precip that fell for the entire month until 4 hours before midnight on the 31st. All of the precip up to that point had been snow. Unfortunately, it wasn't very much snow. The forecast for New Year's Eve night was for snow developing but then quickly mixing with and changing to rain. I was only four hours away from experiencing a rainless month. The snow began around 6:00pm and by 8:00pm it began to change over. By 9:00pm it had gone over to all rain. It practically ruined my New Year's Eve festivities..(LOL). I was so upset about coming soooooo close to setting another record for the month. Hard to believe that was 32 years ago. That brings me back to the start of my story. I have only recorded a whopping total of 0.13" of rain this month so far. This dryness is coming off of a very dry November with less than 2" for last month. I know I'm just hours away from the rain arriving so we'll see how much gets added to the total.