NEWS ARCHIVE

(Clinton) -- The snow totals for the month were below average but there was rain to make up the difference with an overall temperature above average.

January ended with a higher than normal overall temperature and more precipitation than usual. Clinton area weather observer Jim Blaess says the overall temperature for the month was just over 22 degrees and that is three degrees above the average for the month.

There were two days with zero or below temperatures and the normal is five days. A reading of three degrees below zero on the 22nd was the first time there was a sub-zero reading since February 10th of 2011 when it was 17-below. There was a record high during the month when it was 61 degrees on January 29th and Blaess says the record for that date was 53 set in 1914. The National Weather Service observer says that was the 14th time it had been 60 or above in January since 1892 and 5 of those have been in the last 16 years. The highest temperature in January is 67 recorded January 31st in 1989.

Precipitation for the month was about ‘half-an-inch’ more than normal. Blaess says there was about one-point-nine inches of precipitation for the month. That included about three inches of snow which is less than the normal of nine inches, but Blaess says there was enough rain to make up the difference.

Blaess said it was also the 17th lowest precipitation total for January since 1888.

For the October to end of January period Blaess says there has been 7-point-6 inches of snow and the normal for that period is nearly 19 inches of snow. The total is the lowest for the period since the October to January period of 1988-1989 when there was just over two inches of snow.

For this month, Blaess says you can expect about one-and-a-half inches of precipitation and that would include about seven inches of snow plus three days of zero or below weather.

Blaess says the average high on February first is 32 and the low is 15 and by the end of the month those increase to averages of 41 and 23.

Blaess says the most snow in February occurred in 2008 withy 27 inches of snow.

Written 2/1/2013 by Dave Vickers - KROS News

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