Weather Update

A.D. 2008 November 10 might have been the first day in the winter of A.D. 2008/2009 that the maximum temperature did not exceed 0 degrees Celsius. I say "might" because I didn't get home until about 15:30, and it was 0 degrees and cooling at that point. I'm not going to save the date because it was just too close to call...

In any case, we awoke to our second snow accumulation of the season this morning. It wasn't much - somewhere around half of a centimeter - but it sure was pretty. Almost all of the snow is gone now, but the ground is still covered just three miles south of us. We ran some errands down there this evening, and some locations had as much as two inches. As it was very wet snow, it stuck to everything, turning the world into a winter wonderland... You have to love this time of year!

Through A.D. 2008 November 11:

Days with snow cover: 04
Days with complete snow cover: 00
Total snowfall: 001 centimeter
Maximum snow depth: 01 centimeter
Greatest snow event: 01 centimeter

First Snowcover

It began snowing again yesterday (2008 October 28). When we woke up this morning, the ground was covered in about 1 cm of snow. This marks the first day of the winter of 2008-2009 with snow cover.

First snow: 2008 October 21
First snow accumulation: 2008 October 29 (01 centimeter)

Through A.D. 2008 November 04:

Days with snow cover: 02
Days with complete snow cover: 00
Total snowfall: 001 centimeter
Maximum snow depth: 01 centimeter
Greatest snow event: 01 centimeter

P.S. Through 2008 October 29, it has already snowed on four separate days. That's the most snowfalls we have had in October since I moved to New York in 2004.

First Snow

We received our first snow of the season on A.D. 2008 October 21. Though nothing accumulated, it snowed off and on for two days.

End of the Growing Season

This was the scene at my house this morning. 2008 October 07 brought the first hard frost of autumn and an end to the 2008 growing season. The temperature at my house was 28° Fahrenheit (-2° Celsius). The statistics for the growing season of 2008 are as follows:

Last hard frost of spring: 2008 May 05

Last light frost of spring: 2008 May 28

First light frost of autumn: 2008 September 19

First hard frost of autumn: 2008 October 07

Length of the 2008 growing season: 154 days

The statistics for the growing season of 2007 were:

Last hard frost of spring: 2007 May 14

Last light frost of spring: 2007 May 22

First light frost of autumn: 2007 September 17

First hard frost of autumn: 2007 October 29

Length of the 2008 growing season: 167 days

The statistics for the growing season of 2006 were:

Last hard frost of spring: 2006 May 07

Last light frost of spring: 2006 May 07

First light frost of autumn: 2006 September 29

First hard frost of autumn: 2006 October 06

Length of the 2008 growing season: 151 days

I'm not sure of the spring statistics for 2005 because my wife and I lived in western New York for a brief period of time. The autumn statistics were as follows:

First light frost of autumn: 2005 October 20

First hard frost of autumn: 2005 October 28

Beautiful Autumn

This has been a beautiful September. Most days have been in the 60s or low 70s, and we've had just the right amount of rain. We had our first light frost on 2008 September 19 and our second light frost on 2008 September 22. That's quite different from last year, when our first and second light frosts were a month apart. It looks like we have some more near-freezing weather in store the end of this week.

First Frost

Our first light frost of the winter of A.D. 2008/2009 occurred on the morning of September 19. Though the low temperature was 35 degrees Fahrenheit, there was ice on both of our vehicles and on the grass clippings that had piled up in the backyard.

Summer of 2008 Heat Zone

Through A.D. 2008 September 21:

Days at or above 30 degrees Celsius: 23

It appears that the summer of 2008 will conclude having had 23 days with high temperatures at or above 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit). This number represents a significant drop from last year's tally of 30.