The Weather Here

Musings of an amateur owned weather station

Monday, August 27, 2007

Total Lunar Eclipse: August 28, 2007

Follow this full page link for more info.

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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Path Of Destruction

Found this site in one of the weather forums I hang out at. Really shows the power of nature and the science of satellite technology.

Click on the picture to see the actual pic and website.

posted by Unknown # 7:42 AM 0 Comments

Stop Already ! ! !

As bad as we feel we got hit, our concerns go out to our friends in Wisconsin. The Weather Here has been WETTTTT. We have measured 10.37" of rain so far. I am going to need a bigger graph! This compares to an average of 3.86". Although I did not have a rain gauge last year I did find the August 2006 rainfall was only 2.95".

I hope you folks are still dry out there, fortunately we have not had any flooding directly effecting us here at the old weather station. There is more to come over the next 2 days so stay high and dry.

I hope we do not beat the record of 17.10' in August of 1987!

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Monday, August 20, 2007

Over 7" ! ! !

We added a chart to our rain detail page at the request of one of our users. This chart shows the average rainfall per month for our area. It shows (as many of us probably figured out) that we are having a very WET August. Should exceed 7" sometime in the next day or so if the weather goes as fore casted.

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Got Gas?

A little off topic, but seems to be a regular gas war going on down Cicero Avenue out here. With posted prices of $2.929, could we be seeing under $2.90 by the weekend?

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

That Was One .....

perfect day yesterday. Low humidity, slight breeze and moderate temps. Chalk one up for the good days. As happens in Chicagoland, did not last long. Rain falling nicely and temps are supposed to rise today into the 90's with high humidity.

I have to admit that our grass out here has never been greener. The park across from us does not have sprinkling and usually runs a pale brown. Not now ... looking good!

posted by Unknown # 7:12 AM 1 Comments

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Hard Rain

Woke up about 4:00AM to a noisy rain. It wasn't that it was raining hard so much as the 37mph winds that were pelting it against the windows. Finally calmed down and I fell asleep about 4:30AM.

We sure are having a wet one this August!

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Thursday, August 9, 2007

New Phone Access

For those of you who would like quick access to the latest local weather from anywhere you are .. try our new WAP page. This is a text only page designed to be read from most cell phones. It should look something likes this (for now): >>>>

Just point your phone's browser to:
http://willcookweather.com/wap/

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Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Bad Night

Well we had a power outage sometime during the night. Things started raining and making noise around 10PM last night.

Our Northwest suburbs, in particular Rockford Illinois with 6" of rain, got it worse.

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Tuesday, August 7, 2007

But It's A Dry Heat!!!

I WISH!!!!! It is readings like this that make it unbearable, not to mention dangerous, out there.

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Monday, August 6, 2007

Lots Of Noise

but no rain .. hmmmm. Waiting for the other shoe to drop.

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Sunday, August 5, 2007

We Are Up

The new domain is up and running. All files and data should be transferred and working. Might have to give it 48 to 72 hours to be sure. There is a redirect for the old wcw.illinoisgazette.com. This means if you log onto there it will send you to the new domain name. That is here

Please change your bookmarks to reflect this change; www.willcookweather.com.

I think this will be easier to remember and spread the word to your friends.

posted by Unknown # 10:18 AM 0 Comments

Friday, August 3, 2007

New Domain

Well we finally "propagated" the old server data over to the new server. Now for the real news. The reason for the move is I needed more room to setup a new domain name for this website.

Over this weekend (already started) we will be switching to www.willcookweather.com. Some things right now may not function properly but I ask you to bear with us. When the switch is complete you will not even know since we will just redirect you from the old to the new automatically.

posted by Unknown # 6:29 AM 0 Comments

Thursday, August 2, 2007

Server Problems

Sorry about the webcam stuck. All updates are stuck from last night. Host made a server move and I am not sure what is up. Will fix asap.

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Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Dog Days

Well the Dog Days of August are definitely here. What does that mean? To borrow from our friends at Wikipedia:

The term "Dog Days" was coined by the ancient Romans, who called these days caniculares dies (days of the dogs) after Sirius (the "Dog Star"), the brightest star in the heavens besides the Sun.

Popularly believed to be an evil time "when the seas boiled, wine turned sour, dogs grew mad, and all creatures became languid, causing to man burning fevers, hysterics, and phrensies" (from Brady’s Clavis Calendarium, 1813).

The Dog Days originally were the days when Sirius, the Dog Star, rose just before or at the same time as sunrise, which is no longer true owing to precession of the equinoxes. The ancients sacrificed a brown dog at the beginning of the Dog Days to appease the rage of Sirius, believing that that star was the cause of the hot, sultry weather.

The Old Farmer's Almanac lists the traditional timing of the Dog Days as the 40 days beginning July 3 and ending August 11, coinciding with the ancient heliacal (at sunrise) rising of the Dog Star, Sirius.

Here we are looking at the mid to upper 90's all the way through the weekend .. ouch .. make sure your dogs have plenty of water. Add to all this it looks like our air quality is getting worse and the pollen count is going up ... yech!

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