The Report From Hoptoad Hill near Liverpool,NS

Jan 1,2008
Temperature readings in Canada are measured in Celcius.
Happy New Year!!! If you've been following my blog previously on Weather Underground,or you're new to reading my weather blog now that it's here on Blogspot,stay tuned and follow the topsy turvey weather reports from southwestern Nova Scotia.Sometimes it gets interesting and extreme.
As an example,yesterday was a mixed bag of everything.We started out with snow and freezing rain which changed to all rain in the mid-morning.The rain continued until around 3PM and then we had a few brief moments of sunshine.The temps began to drop once the clearing began and we were at the freezing mark by 5PM.Throughout the evening we had a few light flurries with temps just slightly below 0.....that was much better than previous New Year's Eves when we had extremely cold weather,snow or freezing rain.Good weather on Dec 31/Jan 1 is not the norm for us.
This morning it is sunny and a little on the cool side but not bad for Jan 1,however,there's another bout of snow and rain in the forecast for tonight.

Yesterday's data for the record:
Temps -- high: 3.7 low: -2.2
Precip: rain 15.7mm

Conditions here at publication time(~9:00AM AST):
Temperature: -8
Wind: calm
Precip: none
Visual:
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Latest conditions at Western Head(Environment Canada's local weather station)at publication time:
Temperature: -4.0°C
Pressure / Tendency: 101.7 kPa rising
Humidity: 77 %
Wind Chill: -11
Dewpoint: -7.51°C
Wind: WNW 24 km/h gust 41 km/h

The forecast:
Today..Sunny with cloudy periods. Becoming cloudy this afternoon.
Wind northwest 20 km/h becoming southeast 20 early this afternoon.
High zero.
Tonight..Cloudy. Snow at times heavy beginning this evening changing
to rain near midnight. Snowfall amount 5 to 10 cm. Rainfall amount 15
mm. Local blowing snow this evening. Wind southeast 20 km/h becoming
east 40 gusting to 60 this evening then becoming southwest 40 gusting
to 60 overnight. Temperature rising to plus 5 by morning.
Wednesday..A few rain showers or drizzle changing to a few flurries
in the afternoon. Rainfall amount 2 mm. Wind southwest 40 km/h
gusting to 60 becoming north 40 gusting to 60 in the afternoon.
Temperature falling to zero in the afternoon.