Up until Christmas, one could have thought the winter was going pretty normally in terms of number of clear nights. But since then we've had two months of nearly unremitting cloudiness, and 15 Pacific trough passages by my reckoning, including the pulse that came through last night. Since today is sunny, we can only hope we're turning over a new leaf for March. \Brian Flagstaff nighttime cloudiness Dec 1 photom (12,3) 2 photom (12,4) 3 partial (7,5) 4 cloudy [Winterstorm 15 (20cm snow)] 5 cloudy [Winterstorm 16] 6 cloudy 7 cloudy [Winterstorm 17] 8 cloudy 9 spectro 10 spectro 11 photom (12,12) 12 photom (12,12) 13 photom (12,12) 14 partial (8,8) [Winterstorm 18] 15 photom (12,9) 16 photom (12,8) 17 cloudy 18 photom (12,5) 19 photom (12,4) 20 cloudy 21 photom (12,2) [Winterstorm 19] 22 photom (12,1) 23 partial (10,0) [Winterstorm 20] 24 spectro 25 partial (5,0) 26 cloudy 27 cloudy 28 cloudy [Winterstorm 21 (heavy rain)] 29 cloudy 30 cloudy 31 cloudy Jan 1 cloudy 2 cloudy 3 cloudy [Winterstorm 22 (90cm snow)] 4 cloudy 5 cloudy [Winterstorm 23] 6 cloudy 7 cloudy 8 cloudy [Winterstorm 24] 9 cloudy 10 cloudy 11 cloudy [Winterstorm 25] 12 photom (12,12) 13 cloudy 14 photom (12,7) 15 spectro 16 cloudy 17 photom (12,5) 18 cloudy 19 photom (12,3) 20 cloudy 21 cloudy 22 spectro 23 cloudy [Winterstorm 26] 24 cloudy 25 cloudy 26 cloudy [Winterstorm 27] 27 cloudy [Winterstorm 28] 28 cloudy 29 cloudy [Winterstorm 29 (15cm snow)] 30 cloudy 31 cloudy Feb 1 cloudy 2 partial (4,0) 3 photom (11,7) 4 cloudy 5 cloudy 6 cloudy 7 cloudy [Winterstorm 30] 8 spectro 9 cloudy 10 cloudy 11 cloudy [Winterstorm 31 (rain)] 12 cloudy 13 cloudy 14 cloudy 15 cloudy 16 cloudy 17 cloudy [Winterstorm 32] 18 cloudy 19 cloudy [Winterstorm 33] 20 cloudy 21 cloudy [Winterstorm 34] 22 cloudy 23 cloudy 24 cloudy 25 cloudy 26 cloudy 27 cloudy 28 cloudy [Winterstorm 35] -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.