Sunday, March 22, 2009

Recap Of Winter

This is the best way to sum up the past winter: it was dry with about average temperatures. A lot of this can be attributed to the weak La Nina that developed in January. Here are some fast facts:

*A normal winter features four days with highs exceeding 70 degrees. This winter had nine (three of these days were in the 80s earlier this month).

*The lowest minimum temperature was 4 degrees on the morning of January 17th

*The lowest maximum temperature was 23 degrees on January 16th

*The highest maximum was 82 on both March 8 and 9

*The snow total was 6.3 in Richmond, which all came from one storm. This is almost half the norm for the entire winter.

*The overall average temperature was below normal for January and March, while February was much warmer than normal.

*We have seen more precip this month than both January and February combined.

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