Thanks Ellen for sharing. I too found myself wondering about weather recently, mainly wondering about frost & what temperature does it occur at. Come to find out dew point is a factor as well. Anyway I found this page that shows a national frost and freeze map. I can now easily take a peek and see the frost forecast for my area. Can't risk losing any of my new tender babies.

-StLGirl

Here is a link that might be useful: Frost and Freeze Map

This is great. I've been keeping track of days of germination but decided I'd like to record the weather as well. Now I can look back and get the weather info!

that's a good site, stl girl, thanks.

The biggest problem with following weather patterns through big sites like NWS, Intellicast, Weather.com, WeatherUnderground, etc.. is their source of data. Most of them base all their forecasts, records, etc. on data from NWS data collection stations. These stations are generally located at airports. There can be dramatic differences between weather conditions at your closest airport and those in your garden.

In my case, the closest data collection station is 24 miles away; 20 miles east and nearly 15 miles inland. Their weather is starkly different from mine.

WeatherUnderground has a service which caters to personal weather fanatics, allowing those who own the equipment to upload their data to the website. They're called Personal Weather Stations, and I found one which is a mile away, and almost exactly the same distance from the bay as me. I've been following his weather station since May 2004, and it's been a really valuable information source.

My favorite feature is the ability do download past data in a format which allows it to be stored in my own spreadsheet, so I can look at trends myself. I have the following data since '04:

Date
Temp-Hi
Temp-Avg
Temp-Lo
Dewpoint-Hi
Dewpoint-Avg
Dewpoint-Lo
Humidity-Hi
Humidity-Avg
Humidity-Lo
Pressure-Hi
Pressure-Lo
Wind-Hi
Wind-Avg
Gust-Hi
Precipitation

Every week or so, I download the latest data, and can graph all the trends, watch my local precipitation levels, etc..

Very handy

Ellen..here's a link to all the Personal Weather Stations in New Jersey. See if there's one closer to you than your local airport:

Here is a link that might be useful: NJ Weather Stations

Thanks Donn,
I used to have Weather under ground book-marked, someone on here had recommended it, )maybe you), and when my hard drive crashed I lost my bookmarks.
yes I like this one.

thanks for feeding my weather obsession. (grin)

I have found in the mountain west where the weather shows much local variation due to, well, mountains, the best local reports and forecast come from the website of the nearest local AM radio station. The radio stations usually drive me nuts but their websites are good.

Thanks Donn for posting the weather underground. I used it and found two stations within a few miles of me. I'll use this from now on because weather varies so much sometimes. We sure found that out with the snowfall amounts this year. Some areas of the county got eight inches in one storm while others got 24 inches. (Unfortunately we were in the latter for two of the storms).

Caryl