| 2025-07-26 | 7:00 AM | T | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Partly cloudy with occasional peeks of very hazy sun, 68° Min/max: 68/87° Yesterday was the highest temp we've had all July. Radar showed several thunderstorms moving toward us; around 3pm the wind picked up and distant thunder could be heard in the SW. However the storm went south of us, resulting in only a few drops. All of the other storms missed us, too. Zero in the gauge this morning. |
| 2025-07-25 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Hazy sun, 73° with a light W/SW breeze. Min/max: 72/82° Will water plants early; on these really beastly days I retreat indoors by 9am. I don't know how outdoor workers stay engaged all day in this heat. |
| 2025-07-24 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Mostly cloudy with a light breeze,with occasional peeks of sun through very heavy haze, 67° Min/max: 64/80° Gardens getting very dry. |
| 2025-07-23 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Very hazy sun, 61° with some dew. Min/max: 60/75° The humidity is creeping up, following a lovely summer day yesterday. |
| 2025-07-22 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Mostly sunny, 59° with moderate dew. Min/max: 59/78° Two drops in the gauge at OBS, likely dew. Beautiful morning, nice sleeping with the windows open. |
| 2025-07-21 | 7:00 AM | 0.15 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Sunny, 65° with a light breeze. Min/max:64/82° Radar showed small thunderstorm cells moving toward us all late afternoon and early evening, but all fell apart before reaching us. Except one. At 5:30pm a brief intnese dumper of rain occured leaving the 0.15" in a minute or two. No lightning or thunder was observed. Temps dropped eleven degrees by early evening. |
| 2025-07-20 | 7:00 AM | T | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Fog, humid, 70° Min/max: 70/78° Back to that sticky, tropical air mass. A brief, very fine shower around 6pm yesterday; if I hadn't been outside I wouldn't have known it happened. Zero in the gauge this morning. |
| 2025-07-19 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Sunny, 62° Min/max: 60/78° Lovely summer morning! |
| 2025-07-18 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Cloudy, 69° with a light breeze. Min/max: 69/84° Skies look like they are beginning to clear, with a patch or two of blue in the N & E. Air mass has lost that tropical feel it's had for two weeks. |
| 2025-07-17 | 7:00 AM | T | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, humid, still, 73° with heavy dew. Min/max: 73/85° A few drops on the skylight; don't know when the shower happened. Nothing in the gauge at OBS. |
| 2025-07-16 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Hazy sun, humid, 68° with heavy dew. Min/max: 68/84° Humidity: 92% Bedroom window was "raining" condensation on the inside of the glass with A/C on. Five drops in the gauge at OBS. |
| 2025-07-15 | 7:00 AM | 0.41 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, humid, 69° Min/max: 69/83° Thunderstorm arrived before 5pm with thunder, wind, and very heavy rain for a while. A few bolts of lightning at the back end. The center of the storm missed us. |
| 2025-07-14 | 7:00 AM | 0.05 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, humid, 71° Min/max: 79/78° Tropical feel to the air this morning, with drops falling off the tips of leaves. Finally, after days of misting <0.01" there is measurable rain! |
| 2025-07-13 | 7:00 AM | T | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, calm, with light drizzle/mist falling, 70° Min/max: 70/81° Repeat of yesterday morning, except there were 7 drops in the gauge at OBS. The ground is dry under the large maples but everything else is moist (no puddles). Very still morning without even bird chatter. |
| 2025-07-12 | 7:00 AM | T | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Light drizzle, 71° Min/max: 71/83° Drizzle is so light I likely wouldn't have known it was occurring, except that I could feel it on my face and arms. Not even a single drop in the gauge (yet). |
| 2025-07-11 | 7:00 AM | T | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Cloudy, humid, 69° Min/max: 68/79° Humidity: 93% Two drops in the gauge at OBS; uncertain if it is condensation from heavy dew, or rain. |
| 2025-07-10 | 7:00 AM | 0.02 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, 68° and continued humid. Min/max: 68/83° Not sure when rain came through. |
| 2025-07-09 | 7:00 AM | T | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Mostly cloudy, with a barely visible sun shining through the haze, humid (93%) and 71° Min/max: 71/84° A very brief shower around dinnertime yesterday resulted in not quite 0.01" at OBS. Was surprised at how localized our very heavy rain was the day before. Even nearby stations reported far less rain than the 1.31" we'd gotten here. Water level reports at surrounding rivers remained flat-line, except for our Wallkill. |
| 2025-07-08 | 7:00 AM | 1.31 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Mostly sunny with a hazy sun, high humidity (94%), and a tropical feel to the air, 73° Min/max: 72/84° Remnants of T.S. Chantal; rain began at 4:40pm and lasted an hour. Rain was pounding on windows and roof, extremely heavy, with occasional thunder and occasional strong wind. After dark, choruses of tree frogs --glad someone is enjoying the humidity! |
| 2025-07-07 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Cloudy, humid, 72° and very still. Min/max: 71/85° |
| 2025-07-06 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Very hazy sun, 69° with a light breeze. Min/max: 68/81° |
| 2025-07-05 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Hazy sun, 57° with moderate dew. Overnight low of 55° Two drops in the gauge this morning, likely condensation. Beautiful weather yesterday for Fourth of July celebrations. |
| 2025-07-04 | 7:00 AM | 0.12 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Hazy sun, 59° with heavy dew. Late yesterday afternoon: distant thunder for almost an hour before the thunderstorm reached us. Thunder, lightning, some wind, moderate rain and it was over by about 6pm, so the kid's lake swim team was able to have its meet --with a rainbow overhead. The temps dropped 7° in an hour as the front passed through. |
| 2025-07-03 | 7:00 AM | T | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Hazy sun, 62° with heavy dew. Min/max: 61/81° Uncertain if the four drops in the gauge this morning is dew or rain. |
| 2025-07-02 | 7:00 AM | 0.68 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, 69° Min/max: 68/84° All late afternoon it looked like rain coming, with dark skies and wind picking up. At 6:20pm thunder, and light rain began. At 6:50pm there was thunder, lightning, and very heavy rain. That thunderstorm accounted for most of the rain in the gauge at OBS. |
| 2025-07-01 | 7:00 AM | 0.11 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Cloudy, humid, 71° Min/max: 70/85° There was a brief, light shower around 7pm; it wasn't enough to get the ground wet under our large trees. More substantial rain occurred overnight. |
| 2025-06-30 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Hazy sun, 64° Min/max: 63/85° Heat is requiring watering patio flowers daily. This new Date Explorer feature is wonderful; I don't have to total the monthly rainfall amount by hand anymore. June = 2.64" |
| 2025-06-29 | 7:00 AM | T | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Mostly sunny, still humid, 79° Min/max: 69/80° The T in the gauge was two drops; likely misting that continued following yesterday's OBS. |
| 2025-06-28 | 7:00 AM | 0.03 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Ending drizzle, 61° and very humid. Min/max: 60/67° Wasn't sure when I went out to read the gauge if it were still misting, or it was drops falling off the end of the leaves of our large trees. Humidity is 90% |
| 2025-06-27 | 7:00 AM | 0.06 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Cloudy, breezy, 60° Min/max: 60/76° A brief shower around 4pm yesterday. |
| 2025-06-26 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Partly cloudy with a very hazy sun, with an occasional breeze, 71° Min/max: 71/89° Humidity is still high (81%) but it's a much more pleasant start to the day that the last two days. Actually opening windows! Twice yesterday radar showed strong storms coming; both went around us. |
| 2025-06-25 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Hazy sun, humid, 71° Min/max: 70/92° Too hot to be outdoors yesterday, except for a quick run out to water the wilting patio plants and fill the bird bath. |
| 2025-06-24 | 6:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | HHH again. Hazy sun, 91% humidity, 71° Min/max: 71/91° We very rarely see 90°s here, being at 1.061' and surrounded by the forests of Sparta Mountain WMA and the Newark Watershed property. The dog doesn't even want to go outside! |
| 2025-06-23 | 7:00 AM | 0.03 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | HHH indeed! Hazy, hot, and humid start to the day, 73° Min/max: 72/81° At OBS yesterday just before 7am distant thunder was heard to the North. Around 9am there were long, loud peals of nearby thunder to our South, with a few sprinkles. Measurable rain didn't fall until after noon. Clouds kept temps lower until late afternon when some sun peeked through. |
| 2025-06-22 | 7:00 AM | T | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, 71° with distant thunder to the North. Min/max: 71/82° Very brief sprinkles, first around noon and then again around 5pm. Not much; pehaps 8-10 drops per square foot on the patio. Nothing in the gauge this morning. |
| 2025-06-21 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Hazy sun, 65° with moderate dew. Min/max: 63/76° Two drops in the gauge this morning, likely from dew. |
| 2025-06-20 | 7:00 AM | 0.46 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Mostly sunny, breezy, 62° Min/max: 62/82° 3:20pm: distant thunder & darkening skies in the West; 3:40pm rain began, then strong wind and pounding rain; by 3:50pm the sun was back out. There was another round of moderate rain later, but the majority of this 0.46" fell in the afternoon dumper. |
| 2025-06-19 | 7:00 AM | 0.31 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Sunny, very humid, 68° Min/max: 68/78° Well, no more whinning about the cold, dreary, showery start of summer. It flipped on a dime yesterday afternoon: the sun returned temperature rose to 78° with 89% humidity -before the rain came. Some showers here at 6:30pm and very, very dark skies and distant thunder to our north. In approx. an hour the heavier rain and some thunder arrived here. |
| 2025-06-18 | 7:00 AM | 0.36 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Light fog, 65° Min/max: 64/65° Fourth day of very cool temperatures + on and off showers. Today's OBS included a few with moderate to heavy rainfall events. |
| 2025-06-17 | 7:00 AM | 0.15 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Light rain, 60° Overnight low of 59° Like the movie Groudhog Day: another drippy and very cool day yesterday; today is starting to be the same. Not a lot of rain each day, but enough for that "raw" feeling. |
| 2025-06-16 | 7:00 AM | 0.02 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, 59° Overnight low of 58° Cloudy, very cool, and drizzly day yesterday. Today is starting out the same. |
| 2025-06-15 | 7:00 AM | 0.07 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Light drizzle, 56° Overnight low of 56° Cool, wet day yesterday, and it's looking like more of the same today. |
| 2025-06-14 | 7:00 AM | 0.11 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, 60° Min/max: 60/76° Rain, heavy at times, began around 5pm; it didn't last long. No additional rain observed before this morning's OBS. |
| 2025-06-13 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Cloudy, 61° and calm. Min/max: 61/81° |
| 2025-06-12 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Hazy sun, breezy, 66° Overnight low of 64° I wonder if we'll ever see real blue skies this summer? The Canadian wilfires are sending us "milk white" skies. Star watching at night is restricted also. |
| 2025-06-11 | 7:00 AM | 0.03 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Hazy sun with milk white skies, 57° and dew. Min/max: 56/73° The rain was 'leftover' rain following yesterday's OBS, and a brief, early evening shower. |
| 2025-06-10 | 7:00 AM | 0.41 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Raining, 61° Min/max: 60/64° Two heavy bands of rain came through: first around daybreak and the second right before 7am OBS. |
| 2025-06-09 | 7:00 AM | 0.14 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Misty, 58° with an occasional light breeze. Min/max: 58/73° |
| 2025-06-08 | 7:00 AM | 0.27 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Hazy, with almost drippy humidity, heavy dew, 59° Min/max: 59/73° A brief thunderstorm and light rain late morning yesterday; a real dumper before 5pm was responsible for most of the rain in the gauge this morning. |
| 2025-06-07 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Cloudy, with a hint of very hazy sun in the East, 64° Min/max: 63/81° Three straight days of 80°+ is hot for here. Yesterday late in the afternoon and again in the evening radar showed a strong storm coming; both veered around us. |
| 2025-06-06 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Cloudy, 65° humid and calm. Min/max: 64/85° Heat and bad air quality had me back inside by 10am yesterday. First day we've used A/C. |
| 2025-06-05 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Hazy sun, 66° but the Sun is not as orange colored as yesterday. Min/max:65/83° Summer has arrived! |
| 2025-06-04 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | White sky with very hazy, orange sun, 55° Min/max: 54/75° |
| 2025-06-03 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Sunny, 49° with morning dew. Min/max: 47/69° Vegetables and summer annuals are all in, and awaiting summer warmth. Soon. |
| 2025-06-02 | 7:00 AM | 0.01 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Hazy sun, 47° with an overnight low of 45° Yesterday was another cool and breezy day. Several neighbors wearing fleece jackets commented on the "October weather" ushering in June. Sadly it was too cloudy last night for Northern Lights viewing. At 2am it was still very cloudy. |
| 2025-06-01 | 7:00 AM | 0.18 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Mostly sunny with a bank of clouds moving in from the NW, 48° Min/max: 47/63° This 0.18" was the 'leftover' rain that continued a couple of hours after OBS and yesterday's deluge of 3.12" The total rainfall from that system was 3.30" --without any tropical storm. More rain in a single day than we got during the entire month of September or October! The total rain for the month of May was 9.50" Wow. |
| 2025-05-31 | 7:30 AM | 3.12 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Raining, 55° and very breezy. Min/max: 55/75° The smell of rain and sound of rain on the roof woke me at 12:20am. Several waves of very heavy rain came through overnight with an exceptionally heavy dumper at 4:30am. Both basement pumps are on. It's been a while since I've needed to swap out the outer tube to measure OBS content and not loose any precip for the coming 24hrs. Total rain for May = 9.50" WOW. |
| 2025-05-30 | 7:00 AM | 0.01 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Cloudy, humid, 60° Min/max: 59/68° Morning mist gave way to a cool & cloudy day yesterday, with sun coming out only for a while late afternoon. That brought the temp up to 68° |
| 2025-05-29 | 7:00 AM | 0.30 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Misty, 54° with drops dripping from the trees. Min/max: 52/61° Light rain began yesterday afternoon becoming heavy at times around dinnertime. |
| 2025-05-28 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, 55° Min/max: 55/69° |
| 2025-05-27 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Sunny, 49° Min/max: 48/69° Late yesterday afternoon the skies darkened and it looked as if it were going to rain. But it passed by. |
| 2025-05-26 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Sunny, 49° Min/max: 47/60° Heat loving plants like tomatoes, basil, and begonias have been struggling outside with our overnights in the 40°s. That burst of warmth in early May fooled me and I set them out too early instead of waiting until the end of May. |
| 2025-05-25 | 7:00 AM | 0.02 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Sunny, breezy, 50° Overnight low of 49° A short burst of moderate rain around 5pm yesterday. |
| 2025-05-24 | 7:00 AM | 0.13 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Cloudy, 47° with occasional light breezes. Min/max: 46/56° Yesterday was a misty, showery, cool day with on and off light rain. Sun came out ever so briefly late afternoon, and the temps rose to 56° after being in the 40°s all day. |
| 2025-05-23 | 7:00 AM | 0.34 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, 47° Min/max: 46/49° Another 'raw' day. Using the fireplace during the evenings again. 3 day rain total = 1.20" |
| 2025-05-22 | 7:00 AM | 0.84 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Raining, 46° Min/max: 45/53° I have no idea when the temperature reached 53° yesterday; all day long it when I checked it never got out of the 40°s. |
| 2025-05-21 | 7:00 AM | 0.02 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Rain, breezy, 51° Min/max: 51/64° Rain started an hour or so before OBS. |
| 2025-05-20 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Sunny, breezy, 47° Min/max: 44/64° |
| 2025-05-19 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Partly cloudy, breezy, 52° Min/max: 52/67° |
| 2025-05-18 | 7:00 AM | 0.13 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Mostly sunny, 56° with some dew in the gauge funnel. Min/max: 55/76° Another doosey of a thunderstorm yesterday just before 10am. Less lightning and thunder this time. Distant thunder was followed by a brief period of torrential rain. Lasted just a few minutes: 0.13" Although other storms were close on radar, this was the only precip here in the OBS period. |
| 2025-05-17 | 7:00 AM | 0.17 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Cloudy, 64° with dew and very humid. Min/max: 63/73° 11:20am yesterday distant rolling thunder could be heard in the West. Moderate rain started shortly thereafter. At 12:25pm an incredible lightning strike hit very nearby; the kind of strike that shakes the house and you see the intense white light surround you, not seeing it in one direction. Within minutes, while it was still raining, the sound of chainsaws were heard in the neighborhood. Storm was gone by 1:30pm resulting in 0.17" with no further rain during the OBS period. |
| 2025-05-16 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Cloudy, 63° and very humid. Min/max: 62/69° Basement sump pump failed during the day before's 1.24" and flooded the basement. It's been so dry we didn't even think to check on it. |
| 2025-05-15 | 7:30 AM | 1.24 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Light fog, very humid, 60° and calm. Min/max: 59/60° Light rain on and off yesterday; distant, deep, rolling thunder began at 3:20pm. Then the wind picked up, and we had extremely heavy rain and wind around dinnertime. Nice to see an "overflow" gauge at OBS. |
| 2025-05-14 | 7:30 AM | 0.39 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Raining, 56° MIn/max: 56/65° Nice, steady rain. It did come down heavily for several minutes as I was going out to read the gauge. Much, much needed rain. |
| 2025-05-13 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, 57° with some dew in the gauge funnel. Overnight low of 56° Looks to be a perfect day for setting out plants that had been started indoors. |
| 2025-05-12 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Beautiful sunny morning, 46° Min/max: 43/72° 5/9 & 5/10's soaking rains really kick-started plants. Last of the Spring bulbs are 'going by' and the perennials are starting bloom. Beginning to set out annuals with forecast overnight lows for the next week or two being out of the 40°s. We'll see about that... |
| 2025-05-11 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Sunny, 48° Min/max: 44/68° Happy Mother's Day to our Earth Mother and to all mothers everywhere. |
| 2025-05-10 | 7:00 AM | 0.96 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, 47° Min/max: 47/56° Finally. Two back to back days of soaking rain, thankfully. 0.95" + 0.96" |
| 2025-05-09 | 7:30 AM | 0.95 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Heavy rain, 51° Min/max: 51/71° Much needed rain finally came. Began yesterday at 3:10pm as distant, rolling thunder. Rain began at 3:55pm, and not the misty drizzle we've had, but steady, soaking, heavy rain. Extremely heavy at OBS. |
| 2025-05-08 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Mostly sunny with some high, thin clouds, and a hazy sun rising, 53° MIn/max: 51/68° Five drops in the gauge this morning; not sure if it it dew or precipitation. No rain was observed even when radar showed drizzle overhead, once in the afternoon and once early evening. So I'm reporting "0." Now even the mulberry and ash trees are leafing out. |
| 2025-05-07 | 7:00 AM | 0.07 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Sunny, 53° Min/max: 52-64° Although we were in a severe thunderstorm & tornado watch here late yesterday afternoon, all we got were strong winds picking up, a short period of heavy rain (most of the gauge total at OBS this morning), and around 6pm the very distant sound of rolling thunder. The day was otherwise foggy/ misty. |
| 2025-05-06 | 7:30 AM | 0.40 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Light rain, 57° Min/max: 57/62° Finally, more steady, soaking rain. Tadpoles in the pond. |
| 2025-05-05 | 7:00 AM | 0.11 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Fog/mist, 59° Min/max:59/68° Same old/same old. Almost all of the rain stayed east or west of us. Sprinkles on and off all day, with one 'decent' and brief rainfall with moderate to heavy rain around 5:30pm. Lasted just a couple of minutes and it resulted in most of the gauge accumulation for OBS this morning. Yesterday was a good day for setting out plants, but the ground is dry under the top 1/2" - 1" of soil after three days of this, so everything has to be deep watered anyway. |
| 2025-05-04 | 7:00 AM | 0.24 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, 62° Min/max: 62/77° A short spritz of rain just before 2pm, but not enough to halt an outdoor birthday party. We've been in the 'dry slot' with all of the rain moving S-> N to the E of us and S-> N to the West of us, on the other side of the Delaware and the Appalachian ridgeline. But last night around 11pm one storm reached us with lots of lightning and a much needed moderate rainfall. Allelujha. |
| 2025-05-03 | 7:00 AM | 0.06 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Sunny, 58° Min/max: 57/80° Two, brief sun-showers came through around 5pm. We must have had another light rain overnight, too, to result in the 0.06" of yellow-green "soup" in the gauge this morning. The pollen has been awful, and we still have the oaks and the mulberries to go to flower and leaf out. |
| 2025-05-02 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, 58° Min/max: 56/71° Dry continues... |
| 2025-05-01 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Hazy sun, 45° Overnight low of 44° Dry continues... |
| 2025-04-30 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Sunny, breezy, 61° Min/max: 61/78° Yet again, a much needed storm front missed us last night and passed to the north. Total rain for April: 3.57" which is so deceiving; it was a VERY dry month interspersed with two deluges, making it appear closer to average. |
| 2025-04-29 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Hazy sun, breezy, 54° Min/max: 53/74° The singular upside to this very dry Spring is that early blooms are having an extended bloom period without shattering. Forsythia, daffodis, and tulips are having an extended run but are needing watering. |
| 2025-04-28 | 7:00 AM | T | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Sunny, 46° Min/max: 45/54° Strong winds all day yesterday blew the petals right off the early season tulips and the mid-season and late tulips were all leaning sideways. |
| 2025-04-27 | 7:00 AM | 0.10 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, windy, 44° Min/max: 44/72° This storm was a serious under-achiever in forecast and much needed rain. A two day total of 0.28" --as in the previous drought, the rain seems to "slot" around us. Only 0.03" from OBS to noon; then clearing with the sun coming out now and then. At 5:40pm a single boom of thunder, followed by a very brief period of heavy rain. That was it. |
| 2025-04-26 | 7:30 AM | 0.18 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Light drizzle, 61° Min/max: 59/77° Much needed rain began around 8pm. Not to be greedy, but we need a whole lot more! |
| 2025-04-25 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Extremely hazy skies, with a smudge of sun visible in a white sky, 55° Min/max: 54/81° Dry and very warm continues. If anyone complains about rain this weekend they should be 'slapped upside the head'! Rain is deparately needed. |
| 2025-04-24 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Hazy sun, 48° Min/max: 47/75° Dry continues with eleven days of non-measurable rain. So. Jersery wildfires are so alarming. |
| 2025-04-23 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Sunny, 50° Min/max: 49/77° Tree pollen is coating everything! Dry conditions continue. |
| 2025-04-22 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Foggy, 54° Min/max: 51/58° Very dry. Digging holes yesterday to set out forced bulb tops & finding the ground is like dust. Glad I didn't order a lot of new perennials this year. |
| 2025-04-21 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, 43° with an overnight low of 41° First toad showed up in the pond yesterday. Was afraid the dry weather was effecting their arrival for mating here this year. Normally by this time in April there'd be egg stringers already. |
| 2025-04-20 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | White skies with a hazy sun in the East, windy, 51° Min/max: 51/80° Kept watching the radar yesterday, hoping for rain, but all of the storms went by us. Ground is very, very dry. |
| 2025-04-19 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Cloudy, 59° Min/max: 55/70° |
| 2025-04-18 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Hazy sun, 34° Min/max: 33/60° |
| 2025-04-17 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Sunny, 38° Min/max: 38/44° Yesterday was another extremely windy day; things blown all over the yard again. |
| 2025-04-16 | 7:00 AM | T | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, windy, 39° Min/max: 39/65° Twice yesterday a wall of dark clouds came toward us, with strong winds, a brief shower, then it passed and the sun came back out. At this morning's OBS there were seven drops in the gauge. |
| 2025-04-15 | 7:00 AM | T | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, 53° Min/max: 53/63° A brief shower midday yesterday; nothing in the gauge this morning. Hellebores have been in bloom; pulmonaria is ready to bloom; and Bleeding Hearts are up several inches. |
| 2025-04-14 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | 0.0 | NA | | Mostly cloudy, 36° Min/max: 36/55° When the sun came out yesterday afternoon it make quick work of the remaining snowpack. A few tiny piles remain at the base of rockwalls where it had been plowed or shoveled. |
| 2025-04-13 | 7:00 AM | 0.15 | T | NA | 1.0 | NA | | Cloudy, 37° Min/max: 36/40° Remaining snowpack is uneven, with chunks of snow plopping out of the tall maples yesterday, drizzle on and off all day, and rain switching back over to snow for a while after 6pm. Snow continues to slide off our roof this morning. Snow is gone on patio, driveway, and roads but remains between 1.0 and 1.5" on all other surfaces. We were without power for six hours beginning around 1pm. Thank goodness for the fireplace! |
| 2025-04-12 | 6:30 AM | 1.20 | 2.8 | 0.66 | 2.5 | NA | | Very light mix of snow and rain, 34° Min/max: 34/44° Started as rain, heavy at times, before changing over to snow some time overnight. 2.8" on the snowboard but less on the patio, driveway, and roads. Reporting early to try and 'catch' the snow depth before it compressed/melts. |
| 2025-04-11 | 7:30 AM | 0.04 | T | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, 37° Min/max: 36/50° Temps were in the low to mid 40°s all day yesterday. A mix of snow and rain began around 5pm, switching between mostly snow and mostly rain all evening. No accumulation. |
| 2025-04-10 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, 33° Min/max: 31/48° |
| 2025-04-09 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Sunny, 26° with a light breeze. Min/max: 26/40° Great to wake up to blue skies and sun again! |
| 2025-04-08 | 7:00 AM | 0.11 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Partly cloudy, 34° with gusty NW wind. Min/max: 34/45° Radar showed a band of snow showers going right below us, but no winter precip observed here. Helebores are in full bloom. |
| 2025-04-07 | 7:30 AM | 0.12 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Light rain, 38° Min/max: 37/51° No mixed precip observed. |
| 2025-04-06 | 7:30 AM | 0.14 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, 43° same as the overnight low. Forsythias now in full bloom, despite the cool and rainy day yesterday. Took out the inner tube & funnel at OBS this morning, with forecast for possible rain/snow/sleet overnight tonite. |
| 2025-04-05 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, 51° Min/max: 51/65° Orange clouds in the east at daybreak; dark grey overcast in the west. |
| 2025-04-04 | 7:30 AM | 0.03 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, 57° Min/max: 57/65° Yesterday's rain ended late morning. |
| 2025-04-03 | 7:30 AM | 0.08 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Drizzling, 43° Overnight low of 40° Light rain began after 7:30pm last night. |
| 2025-04-02 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Partly sunny, 32° Min/max: 32/57° Baby doves in nest fledged. Although we have had snowfalls in April, they are rare. So I stop reporting "0" in the daily Snowfall and Snowpack fields until late next Fall. |
| 2025-04-01 | 8:00 AM | 1.42 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Cloudy, windy, 35° Min/max: 35/71° First peal of thunder here at 7:13pm, followed by a lot of lightning, thunder, and heavy rain. Intense storm. Sump pump on. Brought a flashlight to bed expecting the power to fail, but it held. |
| 2025-03-31 | 8:00 AM | 0.02 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Overcast, 53° Min/max: 43/45° A total precipitation for March of 3.06" including five days with observable snowfall. |
| 2025-03-30 | 8:00 AM | 0.11 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Fog, 39° with drops falling from the tip of trees. Min/max: 39/73° Balmy day yesterday, cloudy all afternoon, with rain starting in the evening. |
| 2025-03-29 | 8:00 AM | 0.06 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Partly cloudy, 54° Overnight low of 48° Rain began at dusk last evening. |
| 2025-03-28 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Partly cloudy, 39° Min/max: 37/48° Maybe with rain tonite the toads will finally arrive in the pond. An enormous flock of mixed black birds landed in the woodland garden, pecking and tossing over the leaves among the rhododenrons. |
| 2025-03-27 | 8:00 AM | 0.01 | T | NA | T | NA | | Sunny, 29° Min/max: 29/47° 12:45pm - 1:15pm a snowquall with very large flakes came throught; it left a covering on all grassy surfaces before the sun came out at 1:15pm and melted it all immediately. The rest of the day alternated between sun and snow showers; or snow mixed with rain or sleet/graupel. |
| 2025-03-26 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Cloudy, 34° Min/max: 33/54° Another windy day yesterday. First daffodil blooms beginning to open. Still no toads in the pond. Hope tonite's forecast low of 26° is the last of the 20°s. |
| 2025-03-25 | 8:00 AM | 0.08 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Cloudy, 40° Min/max: 39/45° Surprisingly little rain for yesterday's "rainy day." |
| 2025-03-24 | 8:00 AM | 0.01 | T | NA | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Light rain, 36° Min/max: 35/45° A mix of rain and some snow at 3:30am, changing to all rain before daybreak. No accumulation. |
| 2025-03-23 | 8:00 AM | T | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Sunny, calm, 26° Min/max: 26/56° A brief shower late yesterday afternoon, and then the wind returned. |
| 2025-03-22 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Cloudy, 40° Min/max: 32/47° Yesterday's strong winds are gone. |
| 2025-03-21 | 8:00 AM | 0.73 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Cloudy, windy, 33° Min/max: 33/56° Gusts of wind out of the NW. Rain began at 8:18pm and at 8:28pm: lightning and a loud BOOM of thunder that rattled the house. Roaring wind woke me around 6am. |
| 2025-03-20 | 8:00 AM | T | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Cloudy, breezy, with light fog at the top of the ridgeline, 41° Min/max: 41/66° Very fine drops cover the bottom of the gauge at OBS, but didn't even add up to a single drop. Yesterday afternoon was a perfect Spring day; pond garden is awash in white snowdrops and blue early species crocus. The fish have made it through an ice-bound winter. |
| 2025-03-19 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Sunny, 33° Min/max: 33/57° Pond garden is awash in snowdrops; first early crocuses beginning to open. |
| 2025-03-18 | 8:00 AM | T | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Sunny, 29° Min/max: 29/69° A few showers yesterday morning after OBS. Thankfully the wind is gone. |
| 2025-03-17 | 8:00 AM | 0.96 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Overcast, 52° Min/max: 52/64° Light rain began at 4:30pm and remained light to moderate, except for one burst of very heavy rain around midnight. Good! This much needed rain had a chance to penetrate the parched ground and not just run off. Once in a while a blast of strong wind came through, enough to flip over a couple of Adirondak chairs and neighborhood garbage cans, but it was not consistently a wind event. |
| 2025-03-16 | 8:00 AM | T | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Fog, 50° with an occasional light breeze. Min/max: 45/50° The breeze shakes down some of the moisture in the trees. Four drops in the gauge at OBS [the gauge is not situated under any of our trees.] |
| 2025-03-15 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Fog with light misting, 39° Min/max: 39/59° Nothing in the gauge. Lack of rain is also delaying the arrival of toads and frogs to our pond. |
| 2025-03-14 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Mostly cloudy with the sun dimly shining through the clouds, 33° Min/max: 30/52° DRY. Saw last night's Blood Moon eclipse; visible through a thin cloud cover during the entire event. |
| 2025-03-13 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Hazy sun, 34° Min/max: 34/51° All of these zero days without precipitation is getting worrisome. |
| 2025-03-12 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Partly sunny, 36° Min/max: 36/65° A dozen or so large flocks of geese flying & honking north overhead yesterday morning. A welcome sound of Spring. Putting out hoses early this year because the ground is so dry. New plantings need water if we continue to lack rain. |
| 2025-03-11 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Hazy sun, 32° Min/max: 32/62° An awful lot of zeros this month so far, and the forecast for rain tonite and tomorrow is now gone. Another zero. |
| 2025-03-10 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Hazy sun, 40° Min/max: 37/48° |
| 2025-03-09 | 8:00 AM | T | T | NA | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Cloudy, 26° Min/max: 25/40° A band of snow flurries came through at 9:30am; no accumulation. Lots of bird song this morning. Now I remember why I signed up with 8am default report time. I started reporting right after the Daylight Time Change in March 2008. |
| 2025-03-08 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Sunny, 33° with a light NW breeze. Min/max: 33/44° |
| 2025-03-07 | 7:00 AM | T | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Sunny, 29° and very windy. Min/max: 29/51° Winds were roaring all night long. Covering blown off the patio set and things tossed around the yard. Pond is refrozen. The "T" is from left over showers that continued for a short time after OBS. Nothing in the gauge at OBS this morning. |
| 2025-03-06 | 7:00 AM | 1.08 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Drizzling, 44° Min/max: 44/55° Finally! A good, soaking rain. Started around 3pm and at times it was quite heavy and windy. Skies are beginning to clear as I write this report: 7:45am. |
| 2025-03-05 | 8:00 AM | T | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Overcast, 46° Min/max: 37/48° A few sprinkles yesterday early afternoon, and by the looks of the ground this morning, we likely had a little rain overnight. Nothing in the gauge at OBS. |
| 2025-03-04 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Cloudy, 33° Min/max: 24/36° Hole over the bubbler is now keeping a small circle of pond ice-free and is a magnet for wildlife. A flock of red-wing blackbirds moved through early this morning. A mating pair of cardinals was very active yesterday; and a pair of mourning doves is constructing a nest. Spring is here, even if it hasn't felt like it much for the last three days! |
| 2025-03-03 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Partly cloudy, 19° Min/max: 19/28° Ice "volcano" back over the pond bubbler. |
| 2025-03-02 | 7:00 AM | T | T | NA | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Sunny, breezy, 16° Min/max: 16/55° A few rain drops fell just after noon; short bursts of snow before midnight. No accumularion; nothing in the gauge this morning. What a drop in temperatures! |
| 2025-03-01 | 7:00 AM | T | T | NA | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Mostly cloudy, 40° Min/max: 39/45° Right after OBS yesterday it began snowing & moderate snow continued for approx 20 minutes. Snow accumulated on all surfaces, but melted within an hour. Nothing in the gauge this morning. March 1st and I'm still wearing YakTraks! The path to the gauge where snow had been shoveled is solid grey ice. |
| 2025-02-28 | 7:00 AM | 0.02 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Mostly cloudy, 35° Min/max: 35/48° Precipitation was from a few showers following yesterday's OBS. Natural snow is now gone, although there are piles left where it had been plowed/shoveled. Total precip for February MEASURED = 1.90"; however when I dropped the ice covered gauge 2/16 I had to report N/A, and it had a LOT of snow, ice, and liquid precip in it that morning. So I looked at the two nearby stations who almost always report similar conditions and amounts (West Milford & Jefferson) and averaged their amount. It was 0.70", the largest single day precip of February, so I am adding it to my M-T-D totals: 1.90+ 0.70 = 2.60" in my own gardening records. In drought conditions that is a substantial difference! Mornings like this have the most beautiful "firefall" starting on the top of the western ridgeline, as the first strike of sun hits the tops of the trees on the west shore. Clouds in the western sky enhance the spotlight effect, and then the sun "melts' down the ridge a spectacular orange color. Beautiful! |
| 2025-02-27 | 7:30 AM | 0.01 | 0.0 | 0.00 | T | NA | | Overcast, 38° Min/max: 37/49° Snowpack is gone on the SW facing side of the house; still small patches on the E side; and approx. 40% bare ground on the N side of the yard. Bubbler now able to keep a small hole open in the pond while thick ice remains. First Snowdrops opening and lots of bird song! |
| 2025-02-26 | 7:30 AM | T | 0.0 | 0.00 | T | NA | | Sunny, 35° Min/max: 35/51° A very brief shot of drizzle late afternoon, even though radar showed rain here most of the afternoon. Snowpack is now 50/50 ice-shield and bare ground. Finally figured a way to measure it, since chipping at it wasn't effective at getting a clean sample. I used my metal ruler and kept dipping it in a mug of almost boiling water. That melted a clean line through the ice all the way to the ground. A representative sample of the remaining natural snow is 1.2" |
| 2025-02-25 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.2 | NA | | Cloudy, 37° Min/max: 37/47° A few patches of open ground are now visible, mainly around the foundation of the house, low rock walls, and the S facing garden where the ground around uncut dark stems & branches first melted. Paths have widened and approx. 80% of the yard is still snow/ice covered but on paths that we use regularly, one or two footprints are now bare earth. Still using YakTrax. Lots of bird activity. |
| 2025-02-24 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.5 | NA | | Mostly sunny, 30° Min/max: 28/42° Above 40° during the p.m. is starting to make a dent in this persistent snow/ice cover. It's melting back from the house foundation, and from the low rockwalls around the perennial gardens, and the rock edging of the pond. Once the snow melted back to expose the tops of the dark rocks, the melt-back has been quicker there. Everything else in the yard is still 100% covered. I tried again yesterday afternoon to try and chip through with my metal ruler to get depth representative samples, but it's solid ice & impenetrable. |
| 2025-02-23 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.8 | NA | | Sunny, 28° Min/max: 28/37° With the first day over freezing in a while, there was a little snow melt yesterday, which resulted in more black ice on the shoveled paths and driveway this morning. So far in February we'd gotten 5.1" of snow, but it seems like so much more because snowpack has been so persistent (since 2/9 snowfall). |
| 2025-02-22 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 1.0 | NA | | Partly cloudy, 20° Min/max: 18/29° Five days in a row that daytime temps never got over 30°; snowpack remains consistent at 1.0" and 100% coverage, despite stronger sunshine and longer daylength. |
| 2025-02-21 | 7:30 AM | 0.01 | 0.1 | 0.01 | 1.0 | NA | | Mostly sunny, breezy, 17° Min/max: 16/25° Moderate snowfall began just before 4pm and lasted several hours, but only resulted in 0.1" I learned the limits of my YakTraks this morning; when wearing them I fell walking to the gauge. I stepped on a patch of black ice that is now covered with this light dusting of new snow. Sub-optimal. |
| 2025-02-20 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 1.0 | NA | | Sunny, 14° Min/max: 14/26° Still 100% snow/ice cover, although the shoveled paths have gotten a bit wider. But sections are covered in black ice. |
| 2025-02-19 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 1.5 | NA | | Partly cloudy, 12° Min/max: 12/22° Persistent snowpack remains; not surprising with these temperatures. Birdsong increasing. |
| 2025-02-18 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 1.5 | NA | | Mostly sunny, 14° Min/max: 14/30° Snowpack holding firm; cylinders and chunks of ice that were blown out of the trees two nights ago are still laying in the yard. Two years ago there was a mention in my Garden Journal about the pond garden blooming with Snowdrops. Not this year. |
| 2025-02-17 | 7:00 AM | 0.64 | T | NA | 2.0 | NA | | Partly cloudy, breezy, with occasional gusts out of the N/NW, 24° Min/max: 24/35° Rain most of yesterday with temps hovering at freezing. Lost cable even before the wind started. Then the wild weather started in the evening, with gusty winds & ridiculously heavy rain which knocked the chunks of ice in the trees down, pelting our skylight and in-line metal roof like rocks! Most intense between 5:30 and 6:00pm, but lasted a long time. Got up at daybreak to check the roof. Entire yard is either sheets of black ice or a rubble field of ice chunks. They look like diamonds in the morning light. I have a new empathy for what people living in 'hail country' experience. It was frightening. Oh, system ended with a few flakes of snow approx 11pm. Entire snowpack is solid ice at OBS. |
| 2025-02-16 | 7:30 AM | NA | 0.8 | 0.28 | 2.5 | NA | | Fine drizzle, 33° Daytime hi temp yesterday: 30* Night low temps: mostly 33° with a short dip to 32° Of all days to drop my gauge! Contents were a mix of ice, snow, and liquid --encased in an ice shell. When I lifted it off the bracket, it shot out of my hand. A lost sample, ugh. The light snow began around 12:30pm and at 5:45pm changed to fine sleet. Measured snowfall amount then (0.8") and sent Significant Weather Report. Could hear moderate to heavy rain at 2:45am; temp was 33° At OBS there was 0.11" of ice measured with caliphers. Several small limbs are down and the windsock is hanging so low it's almost touching the ground. I see why it's so important to not wait until OBS to measure new snow: at 5:45pm snow was 0.8" and this morning on the cleared portion of the snowboard, it is only 0.3" This is the sample I used for the Snowfall SWE. Snowpack is 2.6" measured next to the cleared section of the snowboard; it is impossible to get to the bottom of what is now approx 1/4 - 1/2" of ice at the bottom. |
| 2025-02-15 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 1.5 | NA | | Overcast, 24° Min/max: 23/32° Snowpack is persistent at 1.5" Have to take a different route to the snowboard; the uneven, frozen solid footprints are dangerous to walk on --even with YakTracs & a ski pole. Snow on top of this thick ice layer is going to be very interesting. |
| 2025-02-14 | 7:00 AM | 0.02 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 1.5 | NA | | Sunny, windy, 24° with a few orange clouds over the eastern horizon. Melted gauge contents is the results of the drizzle and light rain that immediately followed yesterday's OBS. It was cloudy most of the rest of the day with peeks of sun in the late afternoon. Snowpack is an ice-shield. |
| 2025-02-13 | 7:30 AM | 0.17 | 0.3 | NA | 2.2 | NA | | Drizzling, 33° Min/max: 31/34° Occasional light snow started yesterday around 2:30pm. A dusting on the ground by 8pm. Heavier snow was falling at 11pm but changed over to rain during the night. At OBS there is 0.3" of slush on the ground. The gauge contents is slush also. |
| 2025-02-12 | 7:30 AM | 0.01 | T | NA | 2.4 | NA | | Overcast, 28° Min/max: 27/34° A dusting of fluffy, fresh snow on top of existing snowpack was too little to measure with the ruler. Lots of animal tracks in the new snow layer. |
| 2025-02-11 | 7:30 AM | T | T | NA | 3.0 | NA | | Overcast, 17° Min/max: 14/34° A brief period of some snow flurries approx. 8:30am. Snowpack is very difficult for the metal ruler to penetrate with ice layers, so I'm measuring the side of the uncleared part of the snowboard to include the bottom layer of solid ice. |
| 2025-02-10 | 7:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 3.0 | NA | | Partly cloudy, 23° Min/max: 23/31° Snowpack is 100% with 3.0" on snowboard. |
| 2025-02-09 | 7:30 AM | 0.52 | 2.2 | NA | 3.0 | NA | | Overcast, 26° Min/max: 26/33° Snow began around 7:30pm and by 9pm it was mostly sleet. There is a distinct ice layer that needed to be pushed through to measure. I'm leaving the core sample NA because the measurement of 0.63" is so much larger than the gauge SWE. I must have taken the sample from the uncleared portion of the snowboard, which makes sense given it was solid ice. [2/10: rev'd the snowpack total from 2.3 to 3.0" after this morning's OBS to include ice layer at the bottom.] |
| 2025-02-08 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | T | NA | | Light overcast, 21° Min/max: 20/37° Was in the 20°s all day & briefly touched 30° The 37° was during the overnight before yesterday's OBS. Approx 80% is still snow/ice covered with a lot of black ice around the edges from melt during yesterday's sunshine. Another YaxTrak OBS. |
| 2025-02-07 | 7:30 AM | 0.12 | NA | NA | 0.2 | NA | | Mostly cloudy, 35° and breezy. Min/max: 34/36° Since yesterday's OBS it's been a complete sampling of winter precip. Sleet changed to snow and was adding to the existing snowcover, but before I could measure it, it changed over to rain. Gauge contents were completely liquid at this morning's OBS. "Snowcover" is an ice shield; had to use the corner of the metal ruler to chip through it. I ususally do several sample locations, but not this morning! Another YakTrac day; used them yesterday afternoon to get to the grill to BBQ. |
| 2025-02-06 | 7:30 AM | 0.23 | 0.5 | NA | 0.5 | NA | | Snowing, 26° Min/max: 35/32° Fine sleet was falling while I was outside swapping out the gauges and measuring the snow (I could hear it hitting my down jacket). But in a few minutes as I was melting the contents of the gauge, it mixed and now changed back over to snow. Gauge contents at OBS appeared to be all snow; but had to have a lot of sleet, too --in order to get 0.23" liquid from just 0.5" of snow on the ground. |
| 2025-02-05 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | | Cloudy, 22° Min/max: 22/41° Snow only remains in piles where it had been plowed or shoveled. Still wearing YakTrak though, as there is approx 5' between the walkway and the gauge that is an ice-shield. |
| 2025-02-04 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | T | NA | | Mostly sunny, 36° Min/max: 36/44° Yesterday's temps made quick work of the snow; just a trace remains in the shadiest parts of the yard. |
| 2025-02-03 | 8:00 AM | 0.11 | 1.1 | 0.11 | 1.1 | 0.11 | | Mostly cloudy, 26° Min/max: 25/29° Flurries began around 5pm. Temps never got out of the low-mid 20°s all day (it was 26° at 4:30pm) but started to rise before midnight. Today's measurements almost never happen: the gauge and snowboard measurements exactly the same SWE, with the 1.1" snowfall being that "much mentioned 10:1 ratio" that I rarely get here. Lots of animal tracks in the fresh snow: mouse, rabbit, and what looks like fox tracks across the pond. |
| 2025-02-02 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | T | NA | | Partly cloudy, 14° also the overnight low temperature. Snowpack remains the same after yesterday's return to cold temps. Area around the gauge is an ice-field. Another YakTrax OBS. This morning there is a large "ice volcano" over the pond bubbler and pond had re-frozen. More bird calls. |
| 2025-02-01 | 7:00 AM | 0.04 | 0.0 | 0.00 | T | NA | | Overcast, 32° with a NW breeze. Min/max: 32/40° Dramatic reduction in snowpack; only approx 10% of natural snow left. Fog yesterday afternoon & evening, the Algonquin "snow eater," and overnight rain got rid of most of it. Patches remain in the north side of the yard, under shrubs, and along rock walls. |
| 2025-01-31 | 8:00 AM | 0.03 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.5 | NA | | Overcast, 35° Min/max: 30/32° Appears to be a glaze of ice on bluestone patio and cement steps. I heard rain but did not hear sleet overnight, so the thin ice coating must have been from freezing rain. The town salt trucks were out early this morning. Wore my YakTrax to get to the gauge. Snowpack is difficult to report; there is an awful lot of snow still out there to report a "T." Approx 75% of ground still covered, with snow depths ranging from 0.4" to 0.7" Very dry January with only 0.88" of total precip. |
| 2025-01-30 | 8:00 AM | T | T | NA | 0.6 | NA | | Sunny, 20° with an occasional breeze. Min/max: 20/46° Some flurries in the afternoon, and a snow squall after 11pm that was so strong it triggered the pond camera. No accumulation; nothing in gauge. Surprised this much snow is still on the ground with yesterday's warmer temps and high winds. Lost a medium sized limb in one of the driveway trees and strong winds. Large slabs of snow slid off the roof. 0.6" remains on the snowboard with approx. 80% of our yard still covered in snow. |
| 2025-01-29 | 8:00 AM | T | T | NA | 1.0 | NA | | Mostly cloudy, 34° Min/max: 29/36° Several brief periods of light snow flurries yesterday morning. Snowcover down to 1.2" on snowboard; but a few patches of ground are now visible where we or the dog walks regularly; and the shoveled paths are getting wider. So I reported snowcover at 1" |
| 2025-01-28 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 1.6 | NA | | Mostly cloudy, 32° with a NW breeze. Min/max: 30/35° Another beautiful sunrise with a band of luminous orange, pink, and light blue clouds on the eastern horizon; and a stab of golden sunlight on the tops of the trees on the western ridgeline. Still 100% snow coverage; down to 1.6" But the paths are widening, and a few spots of earth are now visible in the unshoveled paths through the snowpack (the path to the snowboard across the yard, and the dog's favorite path outside). Snow also remains on most of the roof. |
| 2025-01-27 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 2.0 | NA | | Sunny, 24° Min/max: 24/40° Yesterday was the first day in a week the temps got above freezing. Icicles down but snow still on the roof. The shoveled paths widened a little but the snowpack is still 100% with snowboard measured at 2.0" Sounds of bird activity this morning. |
| 2025-01-26 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 2.2 | NA | | Cloudy, 28° with light NW breeze. Min/max: 24/28° Quite a jump up in temps from OBS yesterday to today. Snowpack is still 100% now down to 2.2" |
| 2025-01-25 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 2.5 | NA | | Hazy sun, calm, 7° with frost. Min/max: 6/30° Six days in a row with hi temps under freezing. 2.5" snowcover on all surfaces; it's remaining fluffy snow. |
| 2025-01-24 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 2.8 | NA | | Hazy sun, 16° Min/max: 11/26° Same as the rest of the week: temps didn't get above freezing, and the snowpack reduces by 0.2" each day. It's 'down' to 2.8" everywhere. And it remains light & fluffy. Mountain Creek must be delighted. |
| 2025-01-23 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 3.0 | NA | | Hazy skies, with lots of contrails, old and new, 7° Min/max: 3/19° Snowcover down to 3.0" --with three days not even close to freezing, this must be what sublimation looks like. We had two foxes in the yard yesterday afternoon at 4:30pm. I guess mating season is beginning. Surprised with the cold snap and snow cover they'd be mating this early in this particular year. I wonder what triggers "thoughts of spring" in fox? |
| 2025-01-22 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 3.2 | NA | | Clear, -2° Min/max: -3°/18° Continuing to take the snowpack depth from the uncleared portion of the snowboard. Snow remains fluffy throughout. Beautiful half moon in the southern sky at OBS. |
| 2025-01-21 | 7:30 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 3.6 | 0.38 | | Sunny, 4° Min/max: 3/24° Took Snowpack readings are from the uncleared part of the snowboard, even though that location had less than the average snowfall yesterday. But it's marked with a green stake, so I'll be able to measure the same spot to track snowpack melting or sublimation. |
| 2025-01-20 | 7:30 AM | 0.38 | 6.0 | 0.41 | 6.0 | 0.41 | | Sunny, 11° Min/max: 10/35° Snow began at 11am and picked up in intensity in the early afternoon. At 5:30pm sent in a SWR; snow was then 4.5" and continued. This morning's reported Snowfall is an average of several samples; there was some blowing around and drifting. Samples ranged from 5.7" to 6.4" of light, fluffy snow. |
| 2025-01-19 | 8:00 AM | 0.05 | T | NA | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Cloudy, 32° Min/max: 32/38° Snow started just before noon yesterday, but quickly changed to rain. A thin gap in the clouds along the eastern horizon at dawn created another splash of bright, golden sunlight on the top of the western ridge-line forest, before the sun rose into the cloud cover, leaving a grey morning. It is brief, but spectacular; like our own local version of Yosemite's "Firefall." Heavy action on the birdfeeders as happens when a winter storm is approaching.
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| 2025-01-18 | 8:00 AM | T | T | NA | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Cloudy, 31° Min/max: 28/38° Brief period of snow flurries yesterday morning. But unlike recent snowfalls consisting of tiny flakes that resulted in very light snow, this one had a mix of flake sizes, from tiny to large, lacey snow flakes. No accumulation. Nothing in the gauge at OBS. |
| 2025-01-17 | 8:00 AM | 0.02 | T | NA | T | NA | | Partly cloudy, 21° Min/max: 20/26° Light, very fine snow fell periodically all afternoon, leaving a dusting on all surfaces. The Snowfall SWE field today is NA because rabbit tracks ran across the snow-board. Then this morning our dog tracked the rabbit prints in the snow, over the snow-board again, resulting in it being a real mess this morning. |
| 2025-01-16 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Mostly sunny, 17° Min/max: 17/28° |
| 2025-01-15 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Mostly sunny, breezy, 19° Min/max: 18/29° Winds mostly from the NW but occasionally swinging all the way to the SW. It sure looked & felt like it was going to snow yesterday afternoon and evening, but no snowflakes were observed. |
| 2025-01-14 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Mostly sunny, 22° with NW breezes. Min/max: 22/38° No natural snow remains on the ground. The full Wolf Moon and Mars made a beautiful pairing in the early evening sky last night. |
| 2025-01-13 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | T | NA | | Cloudy, 30° Min/max: 28/37° Just a trace of natural snow remains at the edge of the azalea garden and base of rock-walls. |
| 2025-01-12 | 8:00 AM | T | T | NA | 0.5 | NA | | Mostly cloudy, 28° Min/max: 26/32° Light snow continued for approx 1/2 hour after OBS yesterday, winding down to a few periods of on and off flurries. Snow was beginning to collect on the bottom of the gauge, but there was nothing in the gauge this morning. |
| 2025-01-11 | 7:30 AM | 0.04 | 0.9 | 0.03 | 0.9 | 0.03 | | Lightly snowing, 26° Min/max: 26/35° Very fine powder. First time in over a week it got over 30° here. |
| 2025-01-10 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Sunny, breezy, 21° Min/max: 20/27° Winds continue from the NW, but not as brutal as they've been during the past days. The windsock is still up in the tree! Natural snow is gone. |
| 2025-01-09 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | T | NA | | Clear, 18° with wicked winds. Min/max: 18/24° Winds blowing things off the house and around the yard. Windsock is straight out. Found a way to keep it from getting blown out of the tree again and again: duct-taped it to the bottom of the hook. A dusting of natural snow remains only on the north side of the house and along the base of the rockwalls. |
| 2025-01-08 | 8:00 AM | T | T | NA | T | NA | | Mostly sunny, windy, 19° Min/max: 18/28° Like yesterday and the day before: a couple of short periods of snow flurries yesterday, no accumulation. A dusting of snow remains on all surfaces, except open areas where it was scoured away by the wind. We gave up on our windsock; took it down after trying three times to hang it back up in the front maple, and it blew down again in minutes. It's on a sturdy, wrought iron hook! |
| 2025-01-07 | 8:00 AM | 0.03 | 0.3 | NA | 0.3 | NA | | Mostly cloudy, windy, 18° with a few snowflakes falling. Min/max: 14/30° Wind has blown the snow around a lot: some parts just covered; other places snow is in small drifts. No truly representative spot. I took the reading of snow depth at 3pm, after it stopped and before the wind picked up, and it was 0.3" A few flakes fell on and off after that. Wind blew the windsock out of the tree again. |
| 2025-01-06 | 8:00 AM | T | T | NA | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Overcast, 27° Min/max: 25/28° A few brief flakes fell several times yesterday. No accumulation; nothing in the gauge at OBS. |
| 2025-01-05 | 8:00 AM | T | T | NA | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Overcast, 24° Min/max: 24/29° A few snowflakes briefly fell several times throughout the day. No accumulation; nothing in the gauge this morning at OBS. The windsock blew out of the tree again yesterday. |
| 2025-01-04 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Mostly cloudy, windy, 26° with occasional very strong gusts. Min/max: 25/35° Pond frozen, and ground is crunchy again when walked on. Radar showed snow bands moving all around us but no snow was observed. Replaced the hook that holds the windsock on the tree, it kept being blown out of the tree. So far, so good; today is a good test. |
| 2025-01-03 | 8:00 AM | T | T | NA | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Cloudy, breezy, 29° Min/max: 28/37° Periods of brief snow showers most of yesterday afternoon. No accumulation. Pond beginning to refreeze. |
| 2025-01-02 | 8:00 AM | T | T | NA | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Mostly cloudy, 32° Min/max: 32/44° Some sprinkles yesterday afternoon and some snow flurries over night. Nothing in the gauge at OBS, but a small amount of snow in the valleys of the patio covers this morning |
| 2025-01-01 | 8:00 AM | 0.33 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | | Cloudy,41° Min/max: 40/49° Rain began 8:30pm. Thick fog overnight. Clearing at OBS. Here's to a happy and productive New Year! |