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A Record Warm November

We lucked out with another great weather weekend, it was 60 F both Saturday and Sunday in Syracuse. Here in Fairmount we hit 56 F on Saturday and did get 60 F on Sunday. These nice temps are putting us … Continue reading

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1st Snow and Hard Freeze

Had our 1st snow flakes flying around yesterday afternoon, nothing stuck here, but surrounding areas saw anywhere from a trace, to several inches accumulation yesterday. What a difference a couple hundred feet in elevation can make. We had the 1st … Continue reading

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Weather Station 1 Year Anniversary

08-12-2012 Changed the batteries in the transmitter today for the 1st time since we went on-line, almost 2 years ago! 22 months on one set of batteries is very good in my book! Today, Sat Oct 15, 2011 marks our … Continue reading

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Hot Time

Baby it was HOT yesterday! We broke the record at the Syracuse airport of 98°F (2002) with a NEW record of 101°F yesterday 07-21-2011 My station recorded a record high temp of 102°F at 14:38 with a heat index of … Continue reading

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Soggy April sets New record

The wet weather of the past week in Syracuse has pushed the April rainfall total to almost 8.53  (officially) which now makes it the wettest April on record in over 100 years of record keeping. My station here has recorded … Continue reading

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Weather Station

Did some maintenance on the weather station over vacation. Since putting the station up last October on a 20 ft PVC pole, (should have used galvanized fence poles), but what the heck, I used what I had on hand.  Anyways … Continue reading

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