February 6, 2014

For my phenology project, I decided to take a picture of the Murphey Square sign when I am on my way to my Western Civilization class in the Kennedy building at Augsburg College at around 11:45am on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s. I hope to see some differences with the area around the sign, like the melting of snow, the budding of the tree next to the sign, the weather change, and hopefully some signs of animal activity. My temperature and other recordings come from Weather Underground Minneapolis.

Today, the temperature at 11:45am was -3 with a windchill of -16.3 and the dew point at -11. There was a 10mph wind from the west. It was very clear and sunny. The humidity was at66%. I did see signs of squirrel tracks going towards a tree while walking through the park. I did not see any signs of any birds or any other wildlife. There were quite a few people walking around outside. It felt very nice outside today due to the sun being out.

February 11, 2014

Today, due to my job working at ResLife, I was 15 minutes late taking my picture.

The temperature today at 12:00 was 6.1 with a wind chill of -11.5 and the dew point at -4. There was a 10.4 mph wind from the southeast. There was scattered clouds and the humidity was 69%.

I did not see or hear any wildlife today, but I did hear a bird singing the day before. There were also quite a few people walking outside. While walking, I noticed how very slippery the path to the Kennedy building was; it was more slippery than usual. A sign of a high temperature on a previous day and then it getting very cold the next and freezing what melted of the snow

and thus making it extra slippery.

February 13, 2014

The temperature today at 11:45 it was 19.9 with a wind chill of 3.5 and a dew point of 14.0. The wind had a speed of 21.9 mph coming from the west. It was cloudy with some light snowfall. The humidity was at 78%.

You can tell from this picture that there was slight snowfall between Tuesday and Thursday.

February 18, 2014

Temperature today was 37.9 with a wind chill of 33.5 and a dew point of 23.0. The wind was at a speed of 4.6 mph coming from the south. It was mostly cloudy with humidity at 57%.

You can see in the picture that there was snowfall over the weekend due to the snow on the roofs of the cars in the background.

February 20, 2014

The temperature

today was 33.1 with a wind chill of 26.9 and a dew point of 33.1. The wind speed was 6.9 mph coming from north-by-northeast. There was light rain starting 11:00AM this morning. The humidity was 100%.

Even though it was rainy, it was fairly nice outside during this time on my way to class. The ground was a little slippery though.

February 25, 2014

Temperature today was 3.9 with a wind chill of -11.3 and a dew point of -8.0. The wind speed was 10.4 mph coming from the west. It was clear with no precipitation. The humidity was 58%.

In the picture you can see that we did have some snowfall over the weekend because of the snow on the cars. The snow level on the sign is still at about the same level as when I started on February 6.

February 27, 2014

The temperature was at -4.0 with wind chill being undetermined and a dew point of -

20.9. Wind speed was classified as calm with no direction. There were scattered clouds with no precipitation. The humidity was 44%.

This was taken after a big snowfall between Tuesday and Thursday. You can see the new powdered layer in the background on the mounds of snow.

March 4, 2014

Temperature today was 16.0 with a wind chill of 5.3 and a dew point of 7.0. The wind speed was 8.1 mph coming from north-by-northeast. It was overcast with no precipitation. The humidity was at 68%.

Coming into March, it was fairly nice. Cloudy but not too bad. The pathway on my way to class was pretty icy.The snow level on the sign was still at the same level at this point. I am starting to wonder if this spring is going to be like last years spring.

March 6, 2014

On this day I completely forgot to take a picture on my way to class, but I still got the weather information.

The temperature this day was at 11:45 was 29.1 with a windchill of 8.2 and a dew point of 16.0. The wind speed was 16.1 mph with the direction being from south-by-southeast. It was an overcast with no precipitation. The humidity was 78%.

March 11, 2014

Temperature today was 39.0 with a windchill of 32.3 and a dew point of 27.0. The wind speed was 10.4 mph with direction coming from the north. It was overcast with no precipitation. The humidity was 62%.

You can really see that the snow is melting in this picture. The level around the sign has gone down.

March 13, 2014

The temperature was 39.2 with a windchill of 33.6 and a dew point of 32.0. The wind speed and direction were 8.1 mph from the southwest. It was clear with no precipitation. The humidity was 75%.

You can see by comparing this picture and March 11th’s picture, the spots of grass spotted on March 11th are now covered up again by snow.

March 18 & 20, 2014

This week I went home for spring break. For March 18, 2014 the temperature was 35.1 with a windchill of 26.4 and a dew point of

24.1. The wind speed and direction were 12.7 mph east-by-southeast. It was overcast with no precipitation but there was snow earlier that morning at 8:00AM. The humidity was 64%.

For March 20, 2014 the temperature was 37.9 with a windchill of 34.4 and a dew point of 28.9. The wind speed was 4.6 mph coming from the southwest. There were scattered clouds with no precipitation. The humidity was 70%.

March 25, 2014

The temperature was 18.0 with a windchill of 4.8 and a dew point of 1.0. The wind speed was 12.7 mph from north-by-northwest. There were scattered clouds with no precipitation but there was some snow ending at 1:00AM that morning.

For this picture, more grass is showing around the sign and around the trees. There were nice big puddles on the sidewalk on my way to class.

March 27, 2014

The temperature was 37.0 with a windchill of 30.4 and a dew point of 37.0. The wind speed and direction were 9.2 mph from the southeast. It was cloudy with light drizzling. The humidity was 100%.

You can see even more snow has melted away from underneath the sign and also behind it.

April 1, 2014

The temperature for April 1st was 27.0 with a windchill of 13.5 and a dew point of 17.1. The wind and direction were 19.6 mph from the west. It was mostly cloudy with no precipitation but there was snowfall that ended at about 10:30AM. The humidity was 66%.

By this point in the picture there is no more snow on the ground especially with the snowfall that happened earlier that morning. It is really nice to not see the snow on the ground. I did also check on the trees to see if any budding had started but none had.

April 3, 2014

The temperature this day was 34.0 with a windchill of 23.0 and a dew point of 28.0. The wind speed was 18.4 mph coming from east-by-northeast. It was overcast with no precipitation

but there was rain that ended at around 6:15AM. The humidity was 79%.

There is now not even ice on the sidewalks. On this day, we were in a winter storm advisory until the next day. During this evening we were expected to get 6-14 inches of snow.

The top graph is the monthly Minneapolis high and low temperatures from January through the beginning of April. The red represents record highs, green represents the average, and blue represents record lows. The bottom green graph shows Minneapolis’ monthly precipitation in inches. You can see that this winter/spring it was, on average, colder that it has been in past years.