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Just within the past hour, my thermomter read a near-warm 53 degrees, when there’s no breeze and your in direct sun which has a real warmth to it now that it’s Feb 12th!
And, yes I did step outside and enjoyed a few sips of my coffee sitting on my garden chair with an increasingly higher and stronger sun which is warming window sills and car interiors again for the first time in a few months.
Winds earlier this morning made the air “feel” closer to freezing but as sun built into the sky and north, northeast winds lightened up, so my thermometer rose to the highest readings so far this year. Just two days ago we hit 50 degrees but with these daytime “above
normal temperatures”, nights are still long enough and with high pressure firmly in control of our air space, we are seeing large diurnal swings from day to night with hard to even severe frosts forming and rapid cooling from the peak daytime high as the sun falls and we fall 5-12 degrees within just an hour or so. I believe like in recent days, we shall be back down into the 30s by sunset and back below freezing by 7-8pm. A low down to around 22-25 degrees I am forecasting by tomorrow morning, another 50 degree high tomorrow? If so that would be my third in a week!
This mornings low by the way was 31 degrees, yesterday mornings was 23 degrees. I shall be releasing soon my past weeks “Todays Weathere Here” but because of the severe winter storms striking the US Eastern third, I have been focuing of this as their historic weather is taking priority at the moment and may continue to do so for another several days.
UPDATE: An Unusually mild 58 degree high today here, Big Diurnal Fluctuations!
Just when I thought my high here was a balmy 53 degrees, after this peak was reached the temperature fell to 47 degrees and then began rising again. I headed out for a couple of hours and when I returned I checked the thermometer, I discovered that the rise didn’t stop at the earlier “peak of 53 degrees” but actually weent up to questionable high of 58 degrees which is bordering an unusual February achievement and this put my thermometer’s accuracy in question.
My doubts and questions that were asked
-Thermometer malfunction?
-Thermometer located beside a heat absorbing patio which could produce a false reading but despite this actual thermometer sitting underneath a seat and has not been exposed to direct sunlight all day makes me question that theory..
-downlope warming as winds are blowing out of the northeast?
-Dry air allowing cold nights and unusually mild days
I am putting this unusual and surprisingly mild reading down to a simple fact that temperatures can be different just feet apart and feet in elevation difference. 50s we’re expected today and even warmer than Wedesnday’s high of 50 degrees certainly was in my mind. 50s under a MILD source high pressure is not questonable on a mid-February afternoon under clear blue skies and an ever increasing sun intensity and angle. A lossening of wind and dry air does make a reading as warm as this very possible and I put this down to a calming of wind and dry air which heats nicely under direct sunlight.
Clear skies, light winds and most importantly in this case, DRY AIR may produce a cold or very cold night (for mid-February standards) that could easily take a run at 22-degrees by morning, frosting and icing things up pretty good and better still, creating a diurnal contrast from high to low of 36-degrees which would be impressive for sure.
Thanks for reading.
-Mark
>I picked up some high readings here in Fife. I wonder if spring has arrived here in the valley? I think we could hit the high 60s before long. Lets hope the hot air here can thaw the snow dusting America. Must be awful for those poor souls having to deal with snow… first time since 1993 it seems.
>These high readings might be due to you working in an obscure Fahrenheit scale.
Jonny English, Secret Agent
>Have you calibrated your thermometer recently? Have you checked the linearity of readings? I could test your device in my laboratory for a nominal fee.