What I Learned Doing The Climate Survey

January 31, 2025

The wind is almost never from the west!?!?
The wind is mostly from the south, from the north sometimes in the winter.
It snows even less than I thought.
Hardiness zones are only about freezing temps. We are in the same hardiness zone as the West Texas desert.
Koppen Geiger climate classifications are way more useful.
There are no NOAA weather stations near here at all! There had been one at the chemical plant but it went silent in 2018. They came and got the equipment three years ago.
However, university mesonets are on the rise. I found some fairly decent data in (I think? I don't have my laptop up.) University of Illinois' mesonet network.
Temp records: high 106, low -4.
This chart:

A chart that shows dew point throughout the year, which demonstrates that the weather ranges from humid to muggy to oppressive to miserable for most of the year.

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