All Is Calm - All Is Bright This Morning

[Henry]

Beautiful bright sunshiny morning, with just a slight breeze.  Some change from last night.  Had some really high winds around 9 p.m. and heavy, heavy rain for several hours afterwards.  Had quite a few leaves in my lawn yesterday afternoon, but looks like most of them have now disappeared.  Makes it easier to see the Mole Hills......UGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH.

Don't have a rain gauge, so don't know how much rain we got.  A check of Dave & Julie's Weather Reporting Station http://www.weatherlink.com/user/fairfaxvt/ indicated highest wind speeds at about 35 mph.  They sure seemed higher than that here.

[Julie & 6pt Dave]

Yup... that sure was some storm.  I was driving around town around 11:00 p.m. to pick up one of our daughters.  The rain was still coming down though the high winds and heavy rains of earlier in the day had dissipated. I was driving well under the speed limit as you never know around here when a tree or branch finds its way onto the roadway.

About our weather station.  The station is a little protected by of a hedge of trees so I'm not certain that it does register the full wind speed.  As for the rainfall amount .. there is a way to see what we received.  If you click on the summary button and look towards the bottom of the report.  The storm total is the amount of rain the station received from the latest storm.  A 'storm' is defined as all water collected WITHOUT a 24 hour interrupt.  So, if we get rain for six hours have a ten hour break and it starts to rain again the second batch of rain is totaled in the 'storm' event.  Once we have 24 hours of no rain the 'storm' total is reset to zero.  You might imagine that a storm event could last for days up here and you would be absolutely correct.      The total for yesterdays' storm is 1.14 inches. We happened to receive all of this on Saturday ( no spill over from Friday or Sunday).   

[Henry]

Thanks for the explanation Julie.  I have your weather station under my favorites and check it quite often.  We old Vermonters are very weather conscious, at least for the local weather.

I have a Radio Shack Digital Indoor/Outdoor Thermometer which is very accurate.  When I used to have a garden in this frost pocket I am in, had to watch temperatures carefully and any time The Burlington Weather Station predicted weather below 40 degrees, I would prepare for a frost up here.

It was shortly after 9 p.m. last night when the call came in that a tree had knocked power lines down just above my place near Kinney Road.  We have a real mish-mash of power sources up here.  Just below Wilkins Road it is CVPS and from Wilkins Road up past my place past Comette Road it is VEC, then goes back to CVPS up towards Fletcher.

I have a 4500 Watt portable generator, mainly for running my furnace, in case of power outages in the winter.  Had my power gone out last night, would have probably started it up, but would have had to run it in my garage which is not attached to the house with the doors open due to the heavy rain.