1000 days anniversary of my weather diary

[Roman White]

Quite an interesting fact:
today, Oct.04, my weather diary is 1000 days old (since Jan.2006). For this reason I want to show you some results of my weather observations.

During this year I was moving my diary from paper into MS Excel, so all the diagrams below were created in Excel.
Just only some examples...

this autumn temperatures graph
_{(green line means average daily; blue - daily minimum; red - daily maximum)}


this autumn precipitation graph (mm)


types of precipitation (winter 2007-8)


thickness of snow coverage in cm (Jan-Mar 2008)

(don't wonder about 100cm - few years ago it was 60cm of snow on the ground, so 100cm is not unreal)
How poor with the snow was the last winter! 

2007 climatodiagram (temperature/precip. monthly averages)


Average monthly cloudiness (2006-8)


Average daily temperatures comparison (2006-8)


I plan to upload most of this on my site in the nearest future, but it needs a lot of work...

[martinastro]

Roman, I some how missed this thread until now. That's a very impressive presentation!. I never knew you kept weather records for so long. Excellent work!. Data like that will come in handy to researchers in the future. Keep up the great work. What about t-storms, did you get much of those during that period?

[Tyler]

Thats dedication right there. I tried to do that, and it lasted about 2 days .lol

Good Work Roman.

[Roman White]

Thanks Martin and Tyler 

What about t-storms, did you get much of those during that period?

T-storms are usual during Jun-Aug and probable during Apr-May & Sep. However there can be some exceptions. How many? Let me place here some statistics: _{(the number of days, not single t-storms!)}
2006: 18
2007: 27
2008: 17 (Mar-1, Apr-1, May-5, Jun-3, Jul-4, Aug-2, Sep-0, Oct-1)
  The last t-storm of Oct.06 was a surprise for me because it was already mid-autumn (t-storms less probable) and no t-storms for 40 days before that.

I tried to do that, and it lasted about 2 days .lol

Tyler, I had many unsucessfull attempts before 2006.......with a few days, week, even month but no more  But then I decided to do minimum observations but constantly, and it is the most important and hard part - to have no single day of unrecorded weather. It worth to try doing it - it is hard to start but it brings awesome results in a few years.

I do that in the simple way: just a few temperature measurments (usually 8AM, 4PM, min, max), av. daily cloudiness estimate, type & amount of precipitation - that's all. Maybe I'll improve my observations soon with adding there RH, pressure and more precise temperature.