Beautiful Sunny skies February 13th

Today was a surprisingly very warm, and beautiful day, many locations had temperatures near 50.F for the 1st time in 2011 a couple spots even surpasses 50.F. What is surprising about this is it is only February and were only into our second month of the new year. I knew when I woke up this morning it was going to be very warm because already at 9:30 in the morning it was 35.F with partly sunny skies, and a very warm day it was, my location shot up to 48.F, with partly cloudy skies. This temperature of 48.F surpassed my 3 year February record high which was 45.F in 2008. Temperatures were slow to fall, even at this hour of the night ( 10:00pm) it is 42.F, which is very mild for a February night. The snow pack really took a huge hit today, I don’t have official measurements, but we definitely lost well over an inch, I would have to estimate we lost at least 4 inches. Today was a great way to spend a day in February, after 44 days of below 32.F or colder temps, and one heck of a snowy start to Winter. Also seen in the area today was the 2011 first rain showers, some weak showers moved through in the evening and gave me the first rain of the year, but it was light and only a trace.

Temperatures Reported February 13th.

Some spots did reach above 50.F today, Baldwin was the areas warmest report with a high of 51.F and the coolest reports were 46.F which as can been seen were reported at many locations. With this temperatures, it is almost easy to forget it was -13.F only two days ago!