The Wrack
The Wrack is the Wells Reserve blog, our collective logbook on the web.
Feeling the Heat
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| June 29, 2021
| Filed under: Observations
I usually post about impressive wind speeds, or massive rain events and their impacts to water quality, but not today! Today I'm emailing about heat. And I'm sure you have all been feeling it!
We reached 97 degrees (36°C) at our weather station yesterday. That is truly impressive for a coastal station. For perspective, that is the highest reading at the "Laudholm Farm" station in a decade, when we "touched" 100 degrees (38°C) back in July of 2011. As far as I can tell, this is the earliest we have ever topped 95 degrees at the Reserve.
And what would a SWMP post be without a pretty graph, right?
A couple things to note here:
- IT GOT UP TO 97 on the coast!
- Look at that temperature PLUMMET at around 15:00. This coincides with a shift in wind direction at 14:45 from land to coast and BAM! — instant air conditioning…. temp drops more than 15 degrees in an hour.
Stay cool out there folks!
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About the Weather?
The following was published in the Biddeford-Saco Journal Tribune Sunday edition of 1/24/16 and Making It At Home Thursday edition, 1/28/2016.
Always eager to start some new long-term monitoring project, I’m now keeping track of the number of conversations I have about the weather. I’m planning to henceforth keep tabs on with whom, when, and for how long we chatted. I’m already certain one thing will be constant: the changing weather will be discussed in only the most general, equivocal, unchanging terms. You and I will talk about the weather, my friends, but we will say nothing new.
Halloween Storm Hits Coastal York County with Rain and High Winds
Another periodic weather hindcast, this time covering a heavy precipitation event focused on York County.