Daylight Savings Time Begins – Sunrise on Sunday, March 12 is at 7:11 am
7:00 am sunrise – Saturday, March 18
6:45 am sunrise – Sunday, March 26
6:30 am sunrise – Tuesday, April 4
6:15 am sunrise – Thursday, April 13
6:00 am sunrise – Saturday, April 22
5:45 am sunrise – Wednesday, May 3
5:30 am sunrise – Tuesday, May 16
5:45 am sunrise – Saturday, July 15
Things cleared out for a brief while this afternoon.
They don’t usually report the average high but the climate normal high, which is not the average of recorded high temperatures over the past thirty years but a smoothed data set that has various adjustments to account for missing data and errors in measurements, along with suppressing other statistical anomalies like record breaking heat or cold on any one particular day.
| Difference Between Climate Adjusted Average High and Actual Average High (March 1991-2020) | |||
| When they report on news the average high, it’s not what you think it is. | |||
| Day | Climate Normal High 1991-2020 | Highs Averaged Together 1991-2020 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40.0 | 39.7 | 0.3 |
| 2 | 40.0 | 39.7 | 0.3 |
| 3 | 41.0 | 38.0 | 3.0 |
| 4 | 41.0 | 37.5 | 3.5 |
| 5 | 41.0 | 38.6 | 2.4 |
| 6 | 42.0 | 39.8 | 2.2 |
| 7 | 42.0 | 40.8 | 1.2 |
| 8 | 42.0 | 43.8 | −1.8 |
| 9 | 43.0 | 42.8 | 0.2 |
| 10 | 43.0 | 43.8 | −0.8 |
| 11 | 43.0 | 42.3 | 0.7 |
| 12 | 44.0 | 41.6 | 2.4 |
| 13 | 44.0 | 41.9 | 2.1 |
| 14 | 44.0 | 43.6 | 0.4 |
| 15 | 45.0 | 45.6 | −0.6 |
| 16 | 45.0 | 44.0 | 1.0 |
| 17 | 45.0 | 44.8 | 0.2 |
| 18 | 46.0 | 43.5 | 2.5 |
| 19 | 46.0 | 44.7 | 1.3 |
| 20 | 47.0 | 45.8 | 1.2 |
| 21 | 47.0 | 45.3 | 1.7 |
| 22 | 48.0 | 43.5 | 4.5 |
| 23 | 48.0 | 42.9 | 5.1 |
| 24 | 48.0 | 47.1 | 0.9 |
| 25 | 49.0 | 48.8 | 0.2 |
| 26 | 49.0 | 49.0 | 0.0 |
| 27 | 50.0 | 51.3 | −1.3 |
| 28 | 50.0 | 51.6 | −1.6 |
| 29 | 51.0 | 52.4 | −1.4 |
| 30 | 51.0 | 52.2 | −1.2 |
| 31 | 52.0 | 53.3 | −1.3 |
| Andy Arthur, 3/6/23. Data Source: National Weather Service, Albany. |
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NOAA Explains here: https://www.noaa.gov/explainers/understanding-climate-normals
So the average high is kind of like calling twinkies a food.
Meteorological winter comes to an end today. This has been a colder winter then recent ones — we only had one 60 degree day, hitting 62 degrees on December 21st. Previous winters in recent memory had some 70 degrees days.
There is some snow around in the high country, but it's been rapidly disappearing with the warm February we've had.