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Indoor Temperature Graph During Rolling Power Outages

Monday, February 22nd, 2021 6:44pm CST

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.

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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.

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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!

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March 27, 2014 – Evening Thunderstorm Pictures

Thursday, March 27th, 2014 8:53pm CDT

Here are a few mobile phone pictures of the impressive thunderstorm that developed this evening over central Collin County and moved east. Are you prepared for severe weather season?

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

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

On 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.

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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)

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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

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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.

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Plano Rainbow

Thursday, May 6th, 2010 11:41am CDT

Jeffrey Luce sent me this great picture he captured earlier in the week. The picture was taken near Custer and Park following the showers Monday evening. Thank you for sharing!

A photo gallery page will eventually be added to the site for Plano area weather pics. Stay tuned!

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PlanoWeather.com WXSIM Generated Forecasts

Thursday, April 1st, 2010 10:28pm CDT

UPDATE – Due to time requirements, we have stopped publishing these forecasts.

PlanoWeather.com will soon be providing forecasts created with WXSIM – Interactive Local Atmospheric Modeling System. WXSIM is a very unique software package – over 25 years in the making – for modeling, forecasting, or simply studying weather. Multiple forecasts will be generated daily and displayed on PlanoWeather.com alongside NWS forecasts. A comparison page will also be added for determining accuracy between WXSIM forecasts, NWS forecasts, and actual observed temperatures.

Here is the text version of the first forecast generated by PlanoWeather.com:

Forecast for Plano, initialized at 8:55 PM Apr 1, 2010

Tonight: Partly cloudy in the evening, becoming cloudy after midnight. A slight chance of rain after midnight. Low 67. Wind south around 17 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent. Precipitation mostly less than a tenth of an inch.

Friday: Cloudy in the morning, becoming mostly cloudy to cloudy in the afternoon. A chance of rain in the morning, then a slight chance of rain in the afternoon. Some thunder possible. High 79. UV index up to 6. Wind south around 14 mph in the morning, becoming 11 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 60 percent. Precipitation mostly around a tenth of an inch.

Friday night: Partly cloudy in the evening, becoming fair after midnight. Low 52. Wind west-southwest around 8 mph.

Saturday: Sunny in the morning, becoming mostly sunny in the afternoon. High 79. UV index up to 9. Wind north-northwest around 6 mph in the morning, becoming south-southeast in the afternoon.

Saturday night: Mostly clear in the evening, becoming clear after midnight. Low 50. Wind south-southeast around 8 mph.

Sunday: Sunny in the morning, becoming mostly sunny in the afternoon. High 84. UV index up to 10. Wind south-southeast around 9 mph, gusting to 15 mph, in the morning, becoming 15 mph in the afternoon.

Sunday night: Mostly clear in the evening, becoming clear after midnight. Low 57. Wind south-southeast around 12 mph.

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