Feb 1 Welcome back to another exciting episode of "Complaining-about-something-that-you-can't do-anything-about-and will-have-to-get-used-to", also known as "Lousy Weather".

We last left off with December 2011's total, which, surprisingly, wasn't all that bad. I guess there isn't much to complain about this time, either. The chart shows that it was a not-too-bad month for PV production. In fact, if you consider that the average production total for January is somewhat skewed due to first an extreme high in 2009, and then an equally extreme low in 2010, things might have been not-quite "normal" (I always put that word in "quotes", what is "normal" anyway?).

Being a leap year this time around, February might not be all that bad, an extra day could make all the difference. So far, it's OK, so we'll see. Wonder what I'll do if the rest of the year turns out to not be so bad, weather-wise? Maybe rename this topic title??

Feb 29 Yes, I may have to start calling this "Average Weather 2012". The February figures look quite normal.

March 31 OK, so "normal" goes out the window this month. Average production would have been 60 KwH, but the lack of sun cut that back to 46. It didn't help that we had a five-and-a-half-day utility power outage as the result of six inches of wet snow one evening. I operated off-grid for that period, and did very well, but any production above the little that I allowed myself to consume (not knowing how long the power would be out) was wasted. As it was, I weathered the power failure fine, and there wasn't much sun during anyway.

Yep, I am SO ready for some Spring weather, bring it on!

April 30 Another record low production month. Oh yay. I'm actually beginning to see referrals in my site statistics where people have searched goggle for "Why is the weather so bad" and gotten this page in their results. I don't know why, I just know I'm real tired of it.