Saturday January 06, 2007

If we ever do get cold weather and some good snow this season, I will capture some snowflakes for posterity. Theodore Gray explains how in his Popular Science article Save a Snowflake for Decades.

I wasn't familiar with Mr. Gray before writing this entry. He's a co-founder of Wolfram Research and he's written many interesting articles for Popular Science. His Wooden Periodic Table Table is worth a look. Be sure to click on a block...

It's 66 degrees (F) in the shade today just south of Boston. This is ridiculous. My snowblower is ready and waiting. Instead, I'm not even wearing a jacket, and I'm thinking a t-shirt might be more comfortable than a long-sleeved shirt. This warm weather has been here for months.

I generated the following temperature graph today using the Weather Underground. It shows record high and low temperatures, average high and low temperatures, and daily high and low temperatures for 2006 recorded at the airport in Norwood, Massachusetts, just south of Boston.

In December our daily high temperatures were often approaching record highs and our low temperatures were sometimes approaching average high temperatures. There was even a day in very early December when the daily low temperature was far above the average high temperature and very close to the record high temperature.