CarlislePaWx

Hello all from beautiful Anchorage, Alaska! It's been a wonderful adventure this past 7 days with 5 more yet to go. Started in Fairbanks then flew to Anchorage. Did an incredible 5 hour boat tour of Prince William Sound region around Whittier. Saw a bunch of glaciers and caught some ice breaking off the front of a glacier and crashing into the water making a huge crashing sound. We head off to Denali tomorrow via the Alaska railroad. A 7-hour scenic train ride to get us there. All I can say is Alaska is amazing. I've never seen such natural beauty. There's still plenty of snow on many of the higher peaks so I can enjoy seeing winter even though it's summer. The sunsets around midnight and rises at 4:30 here in Anchorage. Amazing to watch the sun set at 11:30pm. Temps have been mainly in the 60's by day with low humidity (of course) and low 50's at night. Anyway, I've been having an impossible time keeping up with the 100 new posts every 24 hours. This is more prolific than in winter. My station recorded a high temp of 97.5 degrees for the highest of the season so far. I also picked up 0.47" of rain which sent the temp crashing down to 71 degrees in about an hour. That's my weather update remotely accessed from Alaska. Have a good night!

It was feeling very fall-like late this afternoon on this second day of summer. Temps in the mid 60's with a breeze felt rather cool after the 93 degree high temp yesterday. Finally got more than 0.01" of rain with a nice 0.53" earlier today. Was wonderful watching the rain fall as the temperature kept slowly dropping all the way down to 61 before the rain ended and temps rebounded into the upper 60's. At 10:30pm it's 54.7 degrees with a dew point of 48. Should easily see 40's overnight. Yay!

What??? I'm just checking in for the first time today (it's 12:45am Friday) and just saw your message. Well the way the models have all blown the high amounts of rain anywhere in our area means I'll believe it when I see it. It's actually quite pleasant out there tonight. I took my dog out around 10:30 and immediately felt the drier air with a gentle breeze. Sure enough when I came back in and checked my station it had a temp of 73 and a dew point of 59! There have been sprinkles on and off so far. Has evaporatively cooled down to 67 with a dew point of 57. I'm willing to bet that if we stay cloudy all day Friday and it rains the temps will hold in the low 60's. I wouldn't mind getting 5" of rain as it would fill up the reserves and turn everything green again. It's been quite dry here since the start of the month with only 0.58" total qpf so far. I don't have to worry about flooding as I have a huge retention basin right beside me that would have to fill up to like 10 feet before there'd be any issues. Not worried at all.

Finally! I finally got a thunderstorm to move over me slowly from north to south. Decent amount of thunder preceded its arrival along with during the storm. Picked up 0.53" in about 20 minutes. This is the first precip of this week (starting last Sunday). Hopefully more to come. Temp dropped 10 degrees from 83 to 73. Always like that feature of thunderstorms although the high humidity it leaves behind isn't so pleasant.

Hazy sun breaking through here now. Temp 82.2 with dew point of 73.9 and a heat index of 88.2. Yuck! I'm still dry as a bone, missing all showers thus far. Perhaps this afternoon?

91.4 / 73.6 here at 2:45 with an ugly heat index of 101 which is officially Heat Advisory levels. Sun was out, then clouds, then back to sun which got me to my current and high temp for the day so far. Now, back to clouds.

After checking my records I can confirm that 92.1 degrees is the highest temperature of the year so far for me. 92 is also 40 degrees warmer than it was last Saturday at this time. Wow.

92.1 my high of the day. Now down to 90.5. I'll have to check my data but I think today might be the warmest day of the year so far for me. Fortunately the dewpoint is only 62 making it almost bearable...lol...for about 5 minutes!

I got down to 58.6 degrees early this morning. It's already up to 80 now but there's a pretty good breeze and dew points are in the mid 60's. I see during this past week there was discussion from many on the hit and miss showers. I definitely missed out as over the past 7 days I've only managed 0.07" of rain. Hoping this upcoming week brings a solid soaking.

Thanks for the map. It is all around me. Looks like to some degree the heavier bands follow the contours of the mountains.

The temp here just dropped another 1.5 degrees and I am now at my low for today at 46.9 degrees. It appears that all around me in all directions have had more rain than here. South, West, East, and North...haha. I recorded 0.69" yesterday with an additional 0.21" today for an event total thus far of 0.90". I'm back in my sweats and long shirt with the heat running at 73 degrees. Feels great! Meanwhile, it does not feel great outside with a wind chill of 44 degrees and light rain at the moment.

Yep. Just as I predicted 3 hours ago I thought there was a decent chance MDT would be down to 52 before the end of their observational day. Well, at 10:56pm their temp was 52 degrees. If it drops to 51 then the only question will be does it exceed 51 during the daytime tomorrow or not. I think the odds are 50/50 for a 51 degree max for tomorrow or at worst, 52 degrees. I'm now down to 50.2 degrees with an northeasterly wind of 5-10mph, occasional gusts to 15. Once my temp reaches 49.9 degrees my weather station will start displaying the wind chill temp...lol! With a low here of 47 and a sustained wind of 10mph the wind chill would be in the low 40's. With the rain falling those conditions are simply horrible for being outdoors. I expect to turn my heat on tomorrow morning as I expect my inside temp to drop to around 70. That's too cold for me. I like 72 or 73. Oh, and by the way, I have absolutely no problem with putting back on my sweats to wear tomorrow and again on Sunday. One other interesting note is I see Ambient's local forecast has me with a high of 53.0 tomorrow and then drops it further for Sunday down to 50.4. Hard to imagine Sunday being colder than Saturday. We'll see.

With this latest batch of heavier rain moving through, temps have dropped 5 degrees from the upper 50's to the low 50's (53.4). And with the 8 o'clock obs from MDT showing a temperature of 55 degrees I think it's now virtually a lock that they will break their record low maximum for tomorrow of 57 degrees. The airport isn't expecting anything above 53 for tomorrow max. Now we just have to wait until midnight/1:00am for the new day to begin and see what the temp is at that time. I'm thinking they have a shot at 53 or even 52 degrees for the record low max tomorrow. That really is amazing for May 29th. The normal high temp for tomorrow is 77 and the normal low is 57. We're looking at a 25-degree departure on the high temps for tomorrow. The date with the normal high temp being 52 degrees is around March 15th!!! So that really does mean that we are looking at late winter daytime temps throughout our area for the first part of Memorial Day weekend. Wow! >>Edit...I forgot to mention that I'm up to 0.65" of rain for the event so far.

Absolutely amazing what the GFS (6z) is showing for later next week into the weekend. Specifically, a cold front drops down from the north later Thursday sending temps from the 60's into the 50's and then into the 40's. Then MDT stays in the 40's from 9:00pm Thursday evening until about noon on Saturday. With it raining a fair amount throughout Friday it keeps temps in the 40's with New England in the 30's! If this happened the way it is depicted it would be totally unprecedented for late season cold. Stunning! Here's 2:00pm Friday afternoon...this is as warm as it gets all day Friday...

1.5 degrees away from 90 with 88.5 at the moment. Yesterday we almost had a 40-degree diurnal with a low of 49 and a high of 88. Low this morning was 56 so it keeps creeping up slowly. Current dew point is 53 which keeps it bearable (outdoors) with temps close to 90. I'd prefer about 10 degrees lower on both the dew point and the temp!

Just a trace of rain here today. It sprinkled for hours but it amounted to nothing. Today marks the end of my heating season...lol! Yes, I have had a few days where I had to turn the a/c on. However, the fairly significant below-normal temps the past 2 weeks have kept the need for a little heat after waking up in the morning to take away some of the chill. I don't think I've ever gone this deep into Spring while still running the heat. And, for those of you wondering what temp I set the heat to, it is mainly 72 degrees except for the first 3 hours of my day between 7:30 - 10:30am and between 10:30 and 11:30pm, I raise the temp to 73.

At the height of the torrent this morning it was raining here at a rate of 6 inches/hr! Picked up 0.5" in 30 minutes. It is finally letting up and the skies are brightening. It was really dark as the heavy rain came in. Since midnight I've recorded another 0.75" giving me a 3-day total of 1.69". Temp dropped from 66 to 60 currently.

It came down good back around 7:00. Recorded 0.91" for the event (so far). No lightning from this storm and also no wind. Had calm winds the entire time it was raining.

I'm at my high of the day and the highest temp so far this year at 86.5. Saving grace is low dew points near 50 degrees. Winds here are around 10mph gusting to 20.

I'll send you a pm. The short answer is not easily, but there is a way if you want to take the time involved.

I wonder if they might hit 70 before this is over?

You picked a fantastic station. I have the 2902 from Ambient which is the same boom assembly, but with a display not nearly as nice as the led version yours has. The unit is exceptionally reliable and accurate. A really great feature of both our units is the ability to calibrate nearly all the parameters if you discover that something seems off. As far as my temp/humidity those readings have been well within their tolerance of plus or minus 1 degree Celsius. You'll definitely want to connect the station to Weather Underground (if you aren't already on their network). Our Ambient units directly send their live data to WU using their rapid-fire data stream of updates every 2.5 seconds. So as it updates on your local display it simultaneously updates on the WU station map. Feel free to reach out to me with any other questions you might have. I know a lot about Ambient products as I think I own 6 different temperature/humidity units along with the full 8 remote sensors that they are all capable of displaying. I have a sensor in nearly every room in my home along with one outdoors that is not part of my 2902. I have that sensor in a separate Gill shield right beside the 2902. You can also calibrate all of those other displays that I have as well. Just remember, the barometric pressure that first comes up on your display will be your raw (absolute) station pressure. You definitely want to go into the unit settings and set your local sea-level (relative) pressue for your home. If you live at 500 feet above sea level then your absolute pressure will read approximately 0.50" lower than your sea-level pressure. The unit keeps track of both absolute and relative separately. Be careful not to adjust the absolute pressure...just the relative pressure. Hope this helps get you started.

Wow. Now I think I'm getting a wee-bit nervous over these winds. I have a bunch of 70-90 foot trees with relatively small trunks lining my back yard. With the most recent set of winds sustained at 35 and gusting to 45 twigs and some small branches have already come down as well as a fair number of leaves. If any one of those trees came down towards the back of my home it would be very damaging. Plus my wife works from home on the second floor right next to some rear windows and I sit in the family room directly underneath her, also right at the rear edge of the home. It's pretty scary just watching the huge sway with each gust. And to think it may get worse over the next few hours and become even more sustained. I've had a ton of 40mph gusts now. They were occurring almost every few minutes. Yup, there goes another gust to 45. Haven't hit 50 yet. I had a few in the low 50's with some events earlier this year but nothing that was sustained like this. One other thing...the temperature has been dropping from an hour ago. Now back down to 59 whereas it was 64 an hour ago.

We can hope.

FYI -- 12Z GFS peak of the winds is mainly in the LSV