I made some changes to the Goose Lake Weather mobile weather page for display on your cell or PDA. Hopefully it will look better now. Some other changes are likely. Now you can check out the weather at Goose Lake when away from home. As always, comments/suggestions appreciated.
I hope to make some major changes to the look and feel of the web site by the end of the summer. Stay tuned…
Do you like observing weather from your own backyard? If so, we need you for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network…known as CoCoRaHS. You are required to purchase an official 4 inch diameter CoCoRaHS rain gauge ( $22 plus S&H)for accuracy and consistency. Data is entered via a web site and you can see your report and all the other CoCoRaHS daily reports in the county, state, and country. To learn more about this great volunteer program, go to the CoCoRaHS web page.
A CoCoRaHS training session will be held in Grundy County on:
Thursday, July 17, 6:30 p.m. – Morris, IL
Training session has been canceled. This session has been rescheduled for Oct 1, 2008 starting at 6:30 PM at the same location.
Grundy County Soil & Water Conservation District Office
3605 N. Illinois Route 47, Suite B
Morris, IL
To register, call the SWCD office at 815-942-0359, ext 3. Registration deadline is Friday, Sept 26.
Directions to the SWCD office can be found here.
I hope to see you there!
A refreshing lake breeze moved over the station from Lake Michigan between 6 and 7 PM this evening. The temperature dropped about 7 degrees after the lake breeze passage. The lake breeze is shown by the narrow band of reflectivity on the radar image. The change in direction from northwest to northeast and drop in temperature can be seen in the graph.
A combination of interesting clouds and sun angle has provided some unique sunset images from the Goose Lake Weather web cam.
Today we hit 90° for the first time this season. Unfortunately the humidity has increased as well with the heat index topping out around 100 this afternoon. Strong southerly winds continue to pump in moisture laden air setting the stage for thunderstorms…possibly severe…later tonight. Heavy rainfall and flooding will also be a significant threat overnight.
A long lived supercell spawned 6 tornadoes Saturday afternoon including one that formed only 11 miles southeast of the Goose Lake Weather location.
Read a detailed report here.
Averages\Extremes for the month of May 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Average temperature = 57.9 °F Average humidity = 70 % Average dewpoint = 47.4 °F Average barometer = 29.853 in. Average windspeed = 4.6 mph Average gustspeed = 7.5 mph Average direction = 109 ° (ESE) Rainfall for month = 3.60 in. Maximum rain per minute = 0.070 in on day 30 at time 12:34 Maximum temperature = 82.6 °F on day 26 at time 17:57 Minimum temperature = 34.6 °F on day 04 at time 06:10 Maximum humidity = 99 % on day 31 at time 04:16 Minimum humidity = 28 % on day 06 at time 17:43 Maximum pressure = 30.40 in. on day 28 at time 09:22 Minimum pressure = 29.16 in. on day 11 at time 06:28 Maximum windspeed = 23.0 mph from 023 °(NNE) on day 11 at time 11:10 Maximum gust speed = 36.8 mph from 023 °(NNE) on day 11 at time 10:49 Maximum heat index = 87.1 °F on day 26 at time 17:56