Finally we have a brand spanking new RainWise MK III station at Dogstar. If you are interested in becoming a weather geek with your own station be sure to check out RainWise. Its definitely a ‘pro-sumer’ brand and more expensive than Davis and the other consumer brands but also much more capable and robust. It …
This makes the fourth snowfall since Christmas and more than three weeks of some snow on the ground. It started around 6:00 PM last night and snowed steadily until early this morning. We got about 4 inches on this side of the mountain. Lexi just loves this snow and she ran up and down the …
Happy 2018 everyone from Dogstar Observatory. It was a chilly 5 degrees F this morning. Balsam was blanketed last night with hoar frost which, while beautiful, resulted in cancellation of the highly anticipated New Years Eve party. In case you are interested, hoar frost occurs when moist air encounters surfaces will below freezing where there …
This is what Licklog falls looks like after more than 3 inches of rain in the past 24 hours!
Hi everyone. The Dogstar Observatory webcams and weather station are off line due to a computer problem. They should be back up next week. Jim
A lucky shot from over 30 taken with a hand-held DSLR back on June 22nd when there was a large storm between Balsam and Waynesville. We observed about an hour of active cloud-to-cloud lightning. Sometimes referred to as ‘heat lightning’ it has nothing to do with heat but generally used to describe distant lightning strikes …
The power outage last week took out the Cisco router and tripped several breakers while we were away. Cameras and weather should be back on line. Jim
In case you are checking the Dogstar Observatory weather or webcams you may have noticed they have not updated in a couple of days. We have an outage with Frontier’s Internet service and they are trying to find the source of the problem. Jim
We got about 4 inches of new snow last night and looks like the storm is just about over. More pics of Sam and snow along East Reach below. Good job by Balsam Maintenance keeping the roads plowed and passable. Jim
