WeatherWatcher: Hail gives way to warm and gray

In brief:

• The week ahead: more rain, more gray, but warmer.
• Last weeks highlights: Wind, wind and more wind, rain, and some hail.
• Last weeks weather data. Average temperature graphed for complete month of December 2011.

The week ahead:

• We'll continue to have a series of fronts producing rain at times through the week. It's going to be about 5-8°F warmer than we've been used to the past several weeks.

Last weeks highlights:

• Christmas Day windstorm: Gusts to 37mph in neighborhoods inland, up to 50mph near Richmond Beach, and along other exposed areas. Area gusts: Shorecrest High: 37mph, Brookside Elementary: 28mph, and Central Market had 37mph. I wasn't able to find a Richmond Beach area weather station online.
• December 27th: National Weather Service issued a wind advisory.
• December 28th: National Weather Service issued a wind advisory. Both wind advisories turned out not to be nearly as significant as the Christmas Day winds.
• December 30th: Cooler and unstable air moved through the area, producing a narrow convergence band that drifted over Shoreline generating a short lived hail storm that turned the ground white for a short time.
• Rain: We received 1.4 inches of rain this week, our normal rainfall for December is around 3-5 inches.

Hail covers the ground and stays all afternoon
Photo by Carl Dinse

Last weeks data:

• High temperature: 53.2°F (Wednesday)
• Low temperature: 33.4°F (Friday)
• Rainiest day: 0.43 inches (Thursday)
• Total rainfall: 1.40 inches
• Warmest day: 50.4°F (Wednesday)
• Coldest day: 40.3°F (Monday)
• Average temperature: 44.5°F

Average daily temperature for December 2011 compared to December 2010

Warmest and coldest days are based on average temperature of the entire day, starting at midnight. All other averages are based on the whole week. All weather data unless otherwise noted is sourced from Carl's Shoreline Weather Station
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