WEATHER STATIONS IN ACTION:
Davis Station Affirms What We Already Knew: We Have Some Nice Weather

John Fletcher, F.R.A.S., is an amateur astronomer in Gloucester. UK, so he knows how important a role the weather plays in trying to get a glimpse of the stars. He wrote to tell us about his chance to compare in real time, the weather-watching advantages of our Bay Area weather.

“I recently spent time at Mount Hamilton observatory at the University of California at Santa Cruz using the large 36-inch refractor to observe the red planet Mars. I had occasion to join as a guest professional astronomers at the 120-inch Shane telescope, and to my surprise, saw that one of the TV monitors displayed the Davis WeatherLink screen. The night assistant brought up my online station back in Tuffley in UK and we made some comparisons. Boy, their barometric readings were simply a straight line and mine were peaks and troughs on an almost daily, and often an hourly, basis. The humidity average there was 45% to 55%, while mine was nearer to 75% upwards daily. Also no rain for months! The stable air there above the cloud tops cloaking San Jose in Silicon Valley on many days was an amazing thing to see.”

We know, John, but we try not to gloat about our lovely weather more frequently than, say, ten times a day.

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