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Indoor Temperature Graph During Rolling Power Outages

Monday, February 22nd, 2021 6:44pm CST
Inside Temperature 2-15 to 2-16

This is a graph of the temperature inside our house from 2/15 12:00AM to 2/16 6:00PM. It was recorded by a piece of equipment in an upstairs closet, which is normally closed. The temperature inside of the closet is typically about 5°F to 7°F warmer than the rest of the house. It showed ~49°F the morning of 2/16, when our downstairs thermostat showed 44°F.

Some notes:

Inside of the equipment closet, our backup battery/UPS kicked in at the first loss of power and generated some extra heat for about 45 minutes until the battery drained. It recharged for an hour the next morning once power returned and ran for another 45 minutes when we lost power again, which slightly slowed the closets heat loss. We gave up and turned it off after that.

Our hot water heater (in the attic) burst shortly after power returned around midnight on 2/16 when the closet temperature was showing 51°F.

After noon on 2/16, the doors were opened and closed to the room and closet, which skewed the graph a bit when the outages were shorter and we started to build heat again.

February 2021 – Record Cold

Saturday, February 20th, 2021 12:42am CST

At 11:41AM on 2/19/2021, our station temperature rose above 32°F for the first time in over 141 hours – from 2/13/2021 to 2/19/2021. We spent 95 hours below 32°F – from 2/9/2021 to 2/13/2021, with only a few minutes above freezing between the two spans.

We also recorded a low temperature of -2.6°F on 2/16/2021, low wind chill of -14.6°F on 2/15/2021, and 6.5 inches of snowfall – from 2/14/2021 to 2/17/2021.

Station Rain Measurements

Saturday, February 24th, 2018 3:23pm CST

We use a manual rain gauge to backup and calibrate our station rain measurements. Here is Jessica performing her daily “chore” the morning of February 21, 2018. That is a lot of rain for a 24-hour period in February!

March 2, 2014 – Highest Daily Temperature Range Recorded by PlanoWeather.com

Monday, March 3rd, 2014 3:28pm CST

rangeOn 3/2/2014, the daily high temperature of 69.9° was recorded at 12:00am and the daily low temperature of 17.3° was recorded at 8:12pm. This 52.6° daily temperature range was the highest recorded by PlanoWeather.com to date.

Below Freezing Temperature

Tuesday, December 10th, 2013 1:22pm CST

PlanoWeather.com recorded 121 hours 10 minutes continually below freezing (12/5/13 12:01pm – 12/10/13 1:11pm)

Average and Extremes for July 2011

Monday, August 1st, 2011 9:05pm CDT
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

February 2011

Monday, February 28th, 2011 9:07pm CST

For the shortest month of the year, the second month of 2011 certainly brought some diverse weather conditions to Plano:

  • A 44mph wind gust on 2/1
  • A wind chill of -5 degrees on 2/1
  • 101 hours 10 minutes continually below freezing (2/1 4:26am – 2/5 9:36am)
  • A low temperature of 12 degrees on 2/2
  • 9 inches total snowfall (2/1, 2/4, 2/9)
  • A high temperature of 82 degrees on 2/18

The one area lacking from the above list is measurable precipitation/snow melt, which amounted to only 1 inch.