| 2026-05-02 | 9:00 AM | 0.24 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Sudden moderate to heavy downpour at 10:44AM lasting 2 minutes, followed by light rain and sprinkles ending at 10:55AM. Gauge read 0.03". Extremely light sprinkles for a few minutes starting at 11:30AM. No change in gauge.
Rain began early morning perhaps 3:30AM and was continuing light rain at report time. |
| 2026-05-01 | 9:00 AM | 0.08 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | light rain from 9:00AM gauge reading until 10:10AM, with a brief period of light sprinkles, then light rain until 10:20AM Sun came out at 10:25AM with light sprinkles persisting, stopping at 10:40AM. Gauge read 0.05" Sun in and out. Sprinkles to light rain returned from 9:10PM to 9:40PM. Gauge read 0.08" |
| 2026-04-30 | 9:00 AM | 0.26 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Woke to thunder at 6:50AM and got up to see it was raining lightly. WC radar showed that it had begun just 5 minutes earlier. It slowly increased to light to moderate rain, continuing past the 9:00AM gauge check. The new plants and transplants are loving it! |
| 2026-04-29 | 9:00 AM | 0.23 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Turned off the watering timers for the first time in months. Light rain/sprinkles right at observation time, lasting for a few hours, then returning as isolated sprinkles until mid afternoon. The morning rain was 0.21", with the afternoon adding an additional 0.02" |
| 2026-04-28 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-27 | 9:00 AM | 0.01 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-26 | 9:00 AM | 0.14 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | FINALLY!! Would have liked more but we'll take what we can get. The week coming up looks like there may be a bit more rain. Hope so. The moon is killing deep sky observations anyway ;)
Sprinkles began at 6:00 and continued until 6:45. Sprinkles and light showers returned overnight on and off. |
| 2026-04-25 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-24 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-23 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-22 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-21 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-20 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-19 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-18 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Still no rain! :( But a great night for observing. |
| 2026-04-17 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-08 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-07 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-06 | 9:00 AM | 0.33 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Light rain on and off from observation time until around 1 PM or so with little to no rain until maybe 4PM. A burst of moderate rain from 5-5:30PM, after which it tapered off, ending altogether at 6:15. Began to see clearing after that. |
| 2026-04-05 | 9:00 AM | 0.03 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Light rain around 8 PM and perhaps overnight. |
| 2026-04-04 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-03 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Very light rain, more a heavy mist around 7:30. Surfaces wet but nothing in the collector. |
| 2026-04-02 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-04-01 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-31 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-30 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-29 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-28 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-27 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-26 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Got all the hose timers set. No rain in several days, no rain forecast for several more, and the Zoysia is waking up! |
| 2026-03-25 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-24 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-23 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-22 | 9:00 AM | T | NA | NA | NA | NA | | The clouds finally spit something out around 9, but it was extremely light and didn't last long. Not sure if anything fell after midnight. |
| 2026-03-21 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-19 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-18 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-17 | 9:00 AM | 0.33 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Rain from morning until late afternoon/early evening. The first round began at 9:55 AM as sprinkles, transitioning to light then moderate rain by 10:17 AM. From that point it fluctuated between light and moderate until tapering to sprinkles at 2:00 PM, stopping at 2:20 PM. At that time the gauge read 0.18"
Sprinkles resumed at 4:00 PM as the next band approached, becoming steady, moderate rain a few minutes later. At 4:06 a downpour accompanied by very heavy gusts set in, lasting for 5 minutes. Light rain by 4:11 lingered until 5:00 PM, afterwards alternating between sprinkles and periods of no rain. Rain finally stopped at 6:30 PM. Clouds were moving rapidly and clearing. Pine pollen season has officially begun :( |
| 2026-03-16 | 9:00 AM | 0.04 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Light sprinkles during the afternoon. Currently under severe thunderstorm warning |
| 2026-03-15 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-14 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-13 | 9:00 AM | NA | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | A line of strong storms came through. I was about 15 minutes north of home and got hammered, but my wife said it wasn't that strong at the house. South of us got hit hard as well. Looks like sprinkles started around 10:30 AM and the worst came quickly around 10:50 AM, lasting 15-20 minutes, then tapering off rapidly to sprinkles again until stopping around 12:30 PM. The wind picked up and stayed strong most of the day. The temps dropped immediately after the storms passed through. This morning the water was frozen. |
| 2026-03-12 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-11 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-09 | 9:00 AM | 0.05 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Sprinkles to light rain from 1:45 PM to around 6 PM |
| 2026-03-08 | 9:00 AM | 0.38 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | light sprinkles began just before 5 PM. 5 minutes later it was strong wind gusts and a downpour that lasted around 10 minutes, ending 10 minutes later with tapering light rain to sprinkles. More rain during the early morning hours according to WC radar. |
| 2026-03-07 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-06 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-05 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-04 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-03 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | A bit foggy this morning and everything wet with dew |
| 2026-03-02 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-03-01 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | A trace in the collector but surely that was a result of the very heavy dew. |
| 2026-02-28 | 9:00 AM | 0.02 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Still light sprinkles at yesterday's collection time, continuing for maybe 30 minutes. Another round of very light precip mid afternoon |
| 2026-02-27 | 9:00 AM | 0.71 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | rain was continuing after yesterday's collection, and was still raining lightly after today's. Yesterday the rain was light with occasional brief spurts of moderate rain and breaks of no rain. Everything seemed to stop sometime after 3:30. Then rain moved in again sometime overnight, continuing right up through collection time. |
| 2026-02-26 | 9:00 AM | 0.14 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | According to WC, rain started around 3:30AM - no, I wasn't up! But when I did get up it was light rain, tending toward moderate when I emptied the collector. |
| 2026-02-25 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-24 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-23 | 9:00 AM | 0.01 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | light sprinkles early afternoon |
| 2026-02-22 | 9:00 AM | 0.11 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Light rain continuing after collection time yesterday continued until 9:37, picking up again at 11:00AM as sprinkles. Then another period of rain came through before dawn. |
| 2026-02-21 | 9:00 AM | 0.11 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Woke up to light rain that apparently started just before 6 AM. Became moderate just at collection time. |
| 2026-02-20 | 9:00 AM | 0.01 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Fine sprinkles late morning/early afternoon |
| 2026-02-19 | 9:00 AM | 0.03 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Surprised by an overnight short |
| 2026-02-18 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Lots of dew this morning |
| 2026-02-17 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Great night of observing until 11:30 when dew point was reached, sending transparency and seeing into the toilet. Everything soaked with dew this morning. |
| 2026-02-16 | 9:00 AM | 1.38 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Light to moderate rain all day until late night, with a mid-afternoon break from around 1:30PM to 3:00PM, then another from around 7:00PM to 9PM. Rain after 9:00 was light. |
| 2026-02-15 | 9:00 AM | 0.08 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Light rain about an hour and a half before report time, would transition to moderate rain after the collector was emptied. |
| 2026-02-14 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | A clear night of steady skies. Very successful observing session. |
| 2026-02-12 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-11 | 9:00 AM | T | NA | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-09 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-08 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-07 | 9:00 AM | 0.02 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-06 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-02-05 | 9:00 AM | 0.28 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | It was "spitting" at observation time yesterday, with light to almost moderate rain for periods of the afternoon. Rain overnight as well. |
| 2026-02-04 | 9:00 AM | 0.02 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Light rain before dawn |
| 2026-02-03 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Looks like tomorrow's precip will be wet for a change, rather than frozen in some way. |
| 2026-02-02 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Snow that fell Saturday is still here. 10 degrees this morning. ?? |
| 2026-02-01 | 9:00 AM | 0.13 | 5.5 | 0.13 | NA | NA | | Snow transitioned from light flurries to steady snowfall around 9:30, Some breaks late afternoon and evening, but continued until 1:15am or so |
| 2026-01-31 | 9:00 AM | 0.01 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Light snow shower began at 5:30, gradually increasing to light snow, on and off light to moderate and blowing at times. Dusting on surfaces, including sidewalks and road, less than 0.1" |
| 2026-01-29 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-01-28 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-01-27 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-01-26 | 9:00 AM | 0.45 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Total is melt water from the collector. Wintry mix in the morning and later afternoon, but mostly sleet, and thankfully not as much freezing rain. Some freezing rain came toward the end of the storm from 8PM until around 11PM, at which point it was a drizzle. Maybe a tenth or a little more ice on surfaces. Hallelujah we never lost power! |
| 2026-01-25 | 9:00 AM | 0.08 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Melted sleet. Wintry mix still falling at observation time, mostly sleet. Less than one-tenth accumulation on flat surfaces (deck, deck furniture) Thankfully not much freezing rain, yet... |
| 2026-01-24 | 9:00 AM | 0.01 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Think we're as ready as we can be... |
| 2026-01-23 | 9:00 AM | 0.13 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Light rain for brief periods in the morning. Light to moderate rain on and off in the afternoon. Apparently rain overnight as well. |
| 2026-01-22 | 9:00 AM | 0.28 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | WC said rain after 3AM until 4AM or so. Thought it would be light, so I was surprised to see this much in the collector, especially since nothing seemed particularly wet. Perhaps the low dew point? |
| 2026-01-21 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Last night was probably the last observing session for January, but it was a good one! Prepping now for what could be a significant ice storm this weekend. |
| 2026-01-20 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Maybe a hint of the aurora in the observatory all-sky meter after midnight. Maybe stronger tonight? Clear skies and less frost than yesterday. |
| 2026-01-18 | 9:00 AM | 0.18 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | light to moderate rain began sometime after midnight and was still coming down moderate at report time |
| 2026-01-17 | 9:00 AM | 0.01 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Surprised by brief light rain just before reporting time. Mourning the loss of one of the astronomy club's long standing members. A pillar for outreach and telescope building. The 24" I use is one he built |
| 2026-01-16 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | All yesterdays puddles and the bird bath frozen solid this morning. Got down to 19. |
| 2026-01-15 | 9:00 AM | 0.15 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | light to moderate rain mid-morning to early afternoon |
| 2026-01-12 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-01-11 | 9:00 AM | T | NA | NA | NA | NA | | misty light precipitation during the afternoon |
| 2026-01-10 | 9:00 AM | 0.02 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Brief light shower around 6:30 PM |
| 2026-01-09 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-01-07 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Very foggy this morning |
| 2026-01-06 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-01-05 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Everything was wet, but from fog, mist and dew |
| 2026-01-04 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-01-03 | 9:00 AM | 0.12 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Light rain after midnight, ending before dawn |
| 2026-01-02 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2026-01-01 | 9:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |