What are your end-of-month climate statistics according to WeatherCat?

[xairbusdriver]

No anemometer until spring…

I'd loan you some of my readings, but they are greatly diminished by the ever growing wind-blocking trees!

This is the first year I've ever heard of atmospheric rivers going as far north

Just remember, "rivers" are continually changing their paths... usually showing little regard to mans 'interventions'.

[Steve]

December was...
   Warmer than average (39.94°F versus an average of 35.14)
   Drier than average (2.14 in versus an average total of 2.27)

[xairbusdriver]

December was...
   Warmer than average (55.05°F versus an average of 45.13)
   Drier than average (5.52 in versus an average total of 5.98)
   Calmer than average (a wind run of 474 miles versus an average of 1,091)
It is almost 73°F! But no storms in the forecast for my little sliver of the country! Or did someone just forget which crayon to use... (see the map below)

[Blicj11]

With apologies to Grand, I fell asleep waiting for midnight to arrive on New Year's Eve and was not able to screen capture from his excellent iOS app last night.

December was...
     Warmer than average (25.30°F versus an average of 22.23)
     Wetter than average (8.00 in versus an average total of 2.14)
     Windier than average (a wind run of 3,610 miles versus an average of 2,973)

We received almost 8 feet (2.4 meters) of snow in December, containing the water equivalent of 8 inches (20.3 cm) of water. Both of these set records for December and the water content set a new all-time monthly record for my weather station. This is much better than I anticipated from La Niña and I hope it portends drought mitigation in the western US.

Happy New Year to all fellow WeatherCatters around the world.

[elagache]

Dear Steve, X-Air, Blick, and WeatherCat faithful,

For reasons reported elsewhere, I'm not able to give Grand his usual plug.  So I'll report the Canebas climate data like everyone else:

December was...
    Cooler than average (47.80°F versus an average of 49.17)
    Wetter than average (9.87 in versus an average total of 4.35)
    Windier than average (a wind run of 498 miles versus an average of 282)

Like Blick, it has been significantly wetter than normal.  I wouldn't hazard a guess about departures from normal for temperatures.  It is interesting that we all (who have working anemometers) seem to have significant departures from normal for the wind run (one way or the other.)

Cheers, Edouard 

[xairbusdriver]

76.2°F Saturday, 29.2°F 24 hours later. Here is what we call "acceptable snow".

[Steve]

January was...
   Cooler than average (24.21°F versus an average of 28.81)
   Drier than average (1.63 in versus an average total of 2.07)

[xairbusdriver]

January was...
   Cooler than average (38.31°F versus an average of 42.72)
   Drier than average (3.52 in versus an average total of 3.86)
   Calmer than average (a wind run of 569 miles versus an average of 1,290)

[Blicj11]

In the mountains of northern Utah, where January is our big snow month, alas, we received only 19 inches, the second lowest amount since we have lived here, and less than half the January average. On the other hand, January was the windiest month ever recorded here (by me).

[elagache]

Dear Steve, X-Air, Blick, and WeatherCat climate watchers,

Here is the report from Canebas weather station:



Sadly the numbers mostly speak for themselves.  Back to drought and already concerns about fire weather in the forecast discussions.

Edouard

[Steve]

After exactly three years, and 13 pages of reports, I think it is about time to change the title of this thread. I think we've outgrown referencing 2019. 

[xairbusdriver]

Perhaps an Admin would consider starting a thread for the new year? Actually, anyone can start a new thread with just about any title. I know of one Admin who is extremely busy with health problems, so I don’t think we should ask him for what we can do ourselves.

Maybe we should create a committee to study the “problem” and suggest a couple of dozen “solutions”!!!

[Steve]

What’s wrong with one continuous thread, like we’ve been doing for three years?  If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

By the way, neither Edouard nor I are administrators on this forum. Only Stu. We were brought onboard to combat spam posts that were overrunning the forum many years back

[Blicj11]

We were brought onboard to combat spam posts that were overrunning the forum many years back

And you've done a fine job!

[elagache]

Dear WeatherCat climate watchers,

Believe it or not, I did remember to grab the image from WeatherCatRCP last night:



As you can see the grim trend is continuing.  The situation is even managing to grab some drought news headlines even as the Ukraine tragedy unfolds.

Oh well, . . . . . Edouard