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.

Cold This Morning

Temperatures dipped down to the upper 20s across most of the Commonwealth this morning. In fact, we were one of the coldest spots in the entire Mid-Atlantic region!