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  • Birthday 01/25/1960

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    Staten Island, New York
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    Have operated home weather station for over 35 years with records going back to 1977... Current equipment includes Vantage pro, Nimbus digital thermometer, standard nws rain gage, to name a few.

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  1. doncat
    90° here today after am low of 64°. Halfway thru month just 0.43" of rain.
  2. doncat
    Like to update on our longer term drought occasionally... Since Sept of 2024, my station is running a 25" deficit. Only about 6 of those 20 months have had normal or maybe slightly above normal precip with no months reaching the 5" mark. Reservoir levels, river levels etc appear to be around normal. Just find it interesting that something seemed to fundamentally change after 8/24. Often used to have water in the woods around the house but haven't seen that for quite awhile.
  3. doncat
    81° here today, record high for date. Some showers to the west but with the dry pattern since 9/24 kinda doubt it? Of the last 19 months, 15 have had below normal precip here .
  4. doncat
    I'll ask this question in here, forgive me if it's been discussed already. The new forecast discussion changes that the nws implemented a little while ago with the key messages format... anymore else hate it? The forecast covers the next seven days, if nothing really important is going on the discussion could ignore half or more of the period. Also it seems impossible to determine if it's been updated even if the timestamp has changed. It leaves more questions than provides answers .
  5. doncat
    The davis vue and vantage also show the ten minute avg direction ln addition to the current snapshot direction... Always have found this very useful as this filters out the normal fluctuations of the vane.
  6. doncat
    80° high here ties for highest so early in season ( also 80 on this day in 2016)...off an am low of 41°. Also bad week, had to put down my 14 year old shih tzu after a very sudden illness. I'm lost .
  7. doncat
    Staten island, ny A.... All three months 3-5° negative temp departures... Snowfall about 200% of normal at 54". If we could manage another nice snow event and return the cold this month I could see an A+ but seems unlikely.
  8. doncat
    Also there's a Davis weather link station that looks to be near you... Looks like it's on Water St.... Near you? Actually it's at the Raritan Yacht Club.
  9. doncat
    Yes I'm just about 1 mile from the river... I know the Billop house well, been there several times. My Travis house is our family home that my dad built in 1959 and where my weather equipment has been for ages. Truth be told we have been in some conversations about selling, so don't know what the future holds.
  10. doncat
    Central west shore, town of Travis.
  11. doncat
    53.9" here on si.
  12. doncat
    This Feb was my 9th coldest with a 29.4° mean and 5th snowiest with 25.9". Also 5th coldest met winter... 50 years of record.
  13. doncat
    1" here temp at 29°.
  14. doncat
    When I do my stats for winter, this will be in the top 5 for cold .
  15. doncat
    Today's 23" gives me 52.7" for the season.
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