So last week we discussed microclimates and did an exercise with temperature, wind and dew point. He did numerous different areas on campus. Two days later something crazy happened. We were in class and it began to snow!!! I know, it was horrible! We looked out the window and saw large snowflakes blowing in the wind, we looked again and they were gone, this happened numerous times during class. At 4:15 p.m. when class was over, I went outside of Phillips Hall and it was really windy and snowing still, so I decided to go back in Phillips and walk through the building instead of outside, and what do you think happened a mere 100 feet away? It wasn't snowing and barely any wind! Talk about a microclimate. So I walked to my car. I walked between Centennial and Schneider and it was of course super windy and almost blew me over!!! As soon I was out of the tunnel effect it went back to calm when I was on Park Ave. The temperature was dramatically warmer once I was no longer in the middle of the buildings. The rest of the week after that was pretty nice, the upper air data was stable each day and there was little no precipitation. The average temperature was around 50F. Which is not terrible but sure not what we were all hoping for.
This coming week will be warmer but there will be a possibility of rain and possibly storms.
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