Fourteenth weather report!

Christian's last required weather report. He's completed two weeks worth of observations, which should meet the requirements for Cub Scouts. Hooray! He says he wants to continue the weather station, so we'll keep posting reports as he gets them.

Date: March 19, 2011

Time: Time 12:20 a.m.

Skies: Partly cloudy skies. Stratocumulus with sun.

Temperature: 48 degrees F.

Wind speed: 0 to 5 mph.

Wind direction: From the West.

One cloudy day, one clear day

Two past weather posts.

Date: March 17, 2011

Time: 11:54 a.m.

Precipitation: None.

Clouds: Stratocumulus.

Temperature: 46 degrees F.

Wind speed: 0 to 5 mph.

Wind direction: From the West.

Date: March 18, 2011

Time: 9:35 a.m.

Precipitation: None.

Clouds; No clouds. Sunny skies.

Temperature: 36 degrees F.

Wind speed: Northwest

Christian's weather report

Christian checked the weather a couple of hours later today, but the temperature at his weather station was 42 degrees F.

Date: March 16, 2011

Time: 9:50 a.m.

Precipitation: None.

Cloud: Stratocumulus.

Wind Speed: 0 to 5 mph.

Wind direction: From the west.

No extreme weather.

Christian's weather report

Date: March 15, 2011

Time: 8:50 a.m.

Moisture: No rain.

Clouds: Clear skies.

Temperature: 38 degrees F.

Wind speed: 0 to 5 mph.

Wind direction: Coming from the West.

Nice day!

Nice beautiful Saturday with mostly sunny skies!

Here's Christian's weather report

Date: March 12, 2011

Time: Noon.

No precipitation.

Clouds: Mostly sunny skies with a few cirrus clouds around.

Temperature: 54 degrees F.

Wind speed: 0 to 5 mph

Wind direction: Winds out of the Southwest.

Weather updates -- Three days of weather blog.

Well, the past two days have been very nice. Getting into the 60s and 70s. Dad (Dave) has spent some time sitting on the front porch bench on the south side at our house and also has been downing some yardwork.

Here are Christian's recordings for the past three days:

Date: March 9, 2011
Time: 7:50 a.m.
Precipitation: No rain.
Clouds: Clear skies.
Temperature: 31 degrees F.
Windspeed: 0 to 5 mph.
Wind direction: North to South.
No other data to report.

Date: March 10, 2011
Time: 7:50 a.m.
Precipitation: No rain.
Clouds: Cirrus.
Temperature: 31 degrees F.
Wind speed: 0 to 5 mph.
Wind direction: Not recorded.
No other data to report.

Date: March 11, 2011
Precipitation: None.
Clouds: Clear skies.
Wind speed: 0 to 5 mph.
Wind direction: From the Northwest.
No other data to report.

Lions and giraffes and elephants ... oh my!

Nicole did a diarama of the African Savannah for a project in school. Here's a photo.

All hail the hail!

We had hail yesterday afternoon.
We had North to South winds at gusts 10-15 mph last night.

Weather blog
Date: March 8, 2011
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Trace of precipitation. Likely melted from mid-afternoon hailstorm yesterday.
No clouds visible. Sunny!
Temperature: 40 degrees F.
Weather website shows barametric pressure at Lava Flow station at 30.14.
Wind speed: 0-5 mph
No extreme weather this morning to report.

It's raining but not pouring

Christian would like report some exciting news. Rain in his rain gauge this morning.
Here's today's report.

Date: March 7, 2011
Time: 7:47 a.m.
Rain: 0.5" (1 cm) in the rain gauge.
Clouds: Stratocumulous.
Temperature: 36 degrees F.
Barometer: Unknown - We don't have one yet, but probably is lower in connection to storm.
Wind speed: 0-5 mph.
Wind direction: West to East.
No extreme weather conditions. Light rain.

Christian's weather report

Christian's weather report
It was mostly cloudy this morning. Here's the breakdown from the Paystrup home weather station.
Date: March 2, 2011
Location: St. George, Utah.
Time: 7:45 a.m.
Clouds: Gray clouds that seemed low. Christian said they looked like stratocumulus or altostratus.
Morning temperature: 27 degrees F.
Wind speed: Slight breeze.
Wind direction: Not sure.
No rain or snow. No extreme weather.

Note from Dad:
Looking at the seven day forecast on www.thespectrum.com, it looks like we are going to by partly cloudy and warm (in the 60s) into the weekend. Well, see. There's a story hanging the Pacific northwest. We'll have to see if the high pressure system moves out and the storm stretches south to give us some more rain this weekend.

Paul the missionary

Paul the Missionary

Monday night we had a FHE lesson on the life and missionary work of Paul the apostle. As part of the activity we drew pictures from the story we read about him. Here are the pictures:

Mom (Jennifer) drew the first picture. She says: Paul was a great missionary.

Jaclyn drew two pictures.

In her first one, Paul is teaching people in the temple, like in the story we read. She told me that in her pictures said he's teaching two girls in the temple the gospel.

Her second picture she says is a picture of her going for a walk and enjoying the sunshine, the blue sky, the green grass. She says on while on the walk she is thinking about the story of Paul.

Nicole drew a picture of Paul in prison. She said he prayed to Jesus, so she drew both Paul and Jesus and an orange cat. She said she knows there wasn't a cat there, but she just wanted to draw an orange cat.

Christian took the comic book/graphic novel panel approach. The green crayon didn't show up very well so I adjusted the toning of the imaging and I also labeled the panels with the corresponding numbers because the handwritten numbers didn't show very well.

Here's what he drew and what he told me.

1. Paul is praying while his is prison. 2. Jesus appears to Paul and tells him to stop persecuting the saints of the New Testament. 3. Paul heals the man who couldn't walk. 4. Paul teaches in the temple. 5. He teaches people who visit him in prison.

Finally, the I drew a couple of smiley face figures, yes, I was "all drawed out"-- I drew the picture of when some of the Christian believers helped Paul escape by lowering him over the wall in a very large basket. I told the kids how Paul was like 5 feet tall and so he was small enough to fit in the very large basket.

How's the weather?

Wow, it's been more than a year since the last post. Well, quick recap. Christian is 9, Nicole is 8, Jaclyn is 6.

How's the weather? Ask a Cub Scout

Christian earned his Bear badge in Cub Scouts. He received it at the Blue and Gold banquet on Feb. 23.

He's now working on studying the weather for the next two weeks or so. We've set up a starter weather station.

Here's what we've collected so far.

Feb. 28, 2011
Location: St. George, Utah
Time: 7:45 a.m.
Clouds: A few cumulus clouds.
Temperature: 36 degrees F.
Wind speed: Slight breeze - Winds out of the west.
No rain or snow. No extreme weather.

March, 1, 2011
Location: St. George, Utah
Time: 8:00 a.m.
Clouds: Only a few cirrus and cirrocumulus.
Temperature: 28 degrees F. (-2 degrees C).
Wind speed: Slight breeze.
Wind direction: Winds out of the Southwest.
No rain or snow. No extreme weather.

We'll keep recording and reporting the weather as we collect it.