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PlanoWeather.com will be attending the Collin County Basic and Advanced Spotter Training Sessions on Saturday Jan 21 at 8:00AM-4:30PM. If you are interested in attending, it is open to the public, and you do not have to attend both sessions.
Basic Session at 8:00-11:00AM
Advanced Session at 1:00-4:30 PM
LOCATION
Collin College:
Spring Creek Campus Auditorium
2012 Training Schedule for North Texas:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/fwd/skywarnsch.php?file=sptrsch
A new page has been added to the site that provides a NOAA Weather Radio stream - http://www.planoweather.com/wxradio.php.
| Average temperature | 91.3°F |
| Average humidity | 51% |
| Average dewpoint | 69.7°F |
| Average barometer | 29.824 in. |
| Average windspeed | 6.7 mph |
| Average gustspeed | 10.0 mph |
| Average direction | 152° (SSE) |
| Rainfall for month | 0.000 in. |
| Rainfall for year | 16.756 in. |
| Maximum rain per minute | 0.000 in on day 31 at time 23:54 |
| Maximum temperature | 106.8°F on day 25 at time 17:14 |
| Minimum temperature | 76.6°F on day 06 at time 06:49 |
| Maximum humidity | 83% on day 16 at time 07:16 |
| Minimum humidity | 25% on day 25 at time 18:09 |
| Maximum pressure | 30.03 in. on day 31 at time 10:25 |
| Minimum pressure | 29.61 in. on day 08 at time 19:15 |
| Maximum windspeed | 18.4 mph from 158°(SSE) on day 23 at time 02:17 |
| Maximum gust speed | 29.9 mph from 180°( S ) on day 23 at time 02:16 |
| Maximum heat index | 115.0°F on day 15 at time 17:27 |
| Avg daily max temp | 101.8°F |
| Avg daily min temp | 81.0°F |
| 100 degree days | 26 |
| Days with rainfall | 0 |
The station historical graphs page for PlanoWeather.com – http://www.planoweather.com/wxwugraphs.php has been updated to support the latest browser versions. Additionally, a new tab has been added for the display of hourly data and new options for the printing or downloading of charts.
For the shortest month of the year, the second month of 2011 certainly brought some diverse weather conditions to Plano:
The one area lacking from the above list is measurable precipitation/snow melt, which amounted to only 1 inch.
On Saturday, January 29, 2011 PlanoWeather.com attended the Collin County Skywarn and Hazardous Weather Conference. The full day annual event is free and open to the public. This year’s event welcomed close to 400 attendees and included speakers from CBS11 TV, NWS Meteorologists, Prepared in Plano, Collin County ARES, plus exhibitors. Topics discussed included Weather Safety, Flood Safety, the use of social media in weather reporting, two Basic Spotter sessions, and two Advanced Spotter sessions.
If you missed the Collin County event, the National Weather Service in Ft. Worth will be conducting spotter training sessions across North Texas through the end of March. For details: http://bit.ly/hFO05K or http://bit.ly/hWPPV2
A big thank you to everyone involved in the organization of this great event!
The temperature, precipitation, wind, and snow detail and summary reports have been updated and now include options for barometric pressure, degree days, sunshine hours, solar energy, UV, dew point, and wet bulb.
An update has been made to the temperature, rainfall, and wind summary pages with the addition of historical graphs. Additionally, the records page for temperature, rainfall, wind, and snow has been updated with data for barometric pressure and snowfall.
The PlanoWeather.com anemometer has been relocated to a location ideal for recording accurate wind measurements. The previous sitting was at a height of 12 feet and was impacted by obstructions common to a suburban location.
Upon relocation, we immediately began seeing accurate wind readings. You can see in the below graph that average wind speeds more than doubled and wind direction has stabilized.
The new installation location was achieved with the addition of a solar powered wireless transmitter and mounting pole.
PlanoWeather.com will continue to make improvements whenever or wherever possible to ensure the most accurate recording and reporting of weather data.
Stay tuned!
A new page has been added to the site that displays drought information – http://www.planoweather.com/wxdrought.php. The U.S. Drought Monitor was established to assess drought severity in a subjective but uniform manner. Since 1999, various agencies, including those within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), have pooled their expertise with that of academia and local interests to more accurately categorize drought. Incorporating the input of all these entities, the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) issues a weekly assessment of drought severity on a national scale.
