Climatological Report (Seasonal)
Issued by NWS Portland, ME
Issued by NWS Portland, ME
335 CXUS51 KGYX 041946 CCA CLSCON PWMCLMCON 000 TTAA00 KGYX 021745 CLIMATE REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 1015 AM EDT TUE JUN 4 2019 ................................... ...THE CONCORD NH CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE SPRING SEASON, FROM 3/1/2019 TO 5/31/2019... CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1981 TO 2010 CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1868 TO 2019 WEATHER OBSERVED NORMAL DEPART LAST YEAR`S VALUE DATE(S) VALUE FROM VALUE DATE(S) NORMAL ................................................................ TEMPERATURE (F) RECORD HIGH 98 05/22/1911 LOW -20 03/06/1869 HIGHEST 85 05/26 90 -5 90 05/25 05/02 LOWEST -8 03/07 1 -9 8 03/19 AVG. MAXIMUM 54.7 56.7 -2.0 56.5 AVG. MINIMUM 33.0 32.6 0.4 34.1 MEAN 43.8 44.7 -0.9 45.3 DAYS MAX >= 90 0 1.0 -1.0 2 DAYS MAX <= 32 3 4.4 -1.4 3 DAYS MIN <= 32 44 46.2 -2.2 45 DAYS MIN <= 0 3 1.0 2.0 0 PRECIPITATION (INCHES) RECORD MAXIMUM 18.14 1983 MINIMUM 3.61 1915 TOTALS 9.87 10.34 -0.47 7.89 DAILY AVG. 0.11 0.11 0.00 0.08 DAYS >= .01 42 35.7 6.3 36 DAYS >= .10 25 20.9 4.1 20 DAYS >= .50 7 6.6 0.4 5 DAYS >= 1.00 1 2.1 -1.1 1 GREATEST 24 HR. TOTAL 1.17 04/26 SNOWFALL (INCHES) RECORDS TOTAL 48.2 1956 TOTALS 9.2 13.9 -4.7 30.4 SINCE 7/1 52.8 61.4 -8.6 87.9 SNOWDEPTH AVG. 2 DAYS >= TRACE 10 6.8 3.2 18 DAYS >= 1.0 3 3.8 -0.8 4 GREATEST SNOW DEPTH 15 03/04 24 HR TOTAL 5.8 03/03 TO 03/04 DEGREE_DAYS HEATING TOTAL 1939 1891 48 1826 SINCE 7/1 7147 7150 -3 6623 COOLING TOTAL 14 18 -4 37 SINCE 1/1 14 18 -4 37 ................................................................. WIND (MPH) AVERAGE WIND SPEED 6.9 HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 35/290 DATE 04/03 HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 52/280 DATE 04/03 SKY COVER AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.50 AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 66 - INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS. R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED. MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING. T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT. && WINTER-LIKE CONDITIONS CONTINUED INTO THE FIRST TWO WEEKS OF METEOROLOGICAL SPRING. A SNOWSTORM ON MARCH 3 AND 4 BROUGHT 5.8 INCHES OF SNOW. COLDER AIR POURED IN BEHIND THE STORM. CONCORD SPENT THE NEXT 3 DAYS BELOW FREEZING WITH LOW TEMPERATURES BELOW ZERO. ALTHOUGH MORE LIGHT SNOW CAME A FEW DAYS LATER, BUT MORE MILD CONDITIONS WERE ON THE WAY. GRADUALLY THE WARMER WEATHER AND SOME LIGHT RAIN MELTED THE LAST OF THE WINTER SNOW PACK BY THE MORNING OF APRIL 1. THE LAST MEASURABLE SNOWFALL OF THE SEASON CAME ON APRIL 9 WHEN 0.3 INCHES FELL. WARMER WEATHER DOMINATED THE MIDDLE OF APRIL ALTHOUGH IT WAS FREQUENTLY RAINY. THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE WAS 80 DEGREES ON APRIL 19, THE FIRST OF 4 STRAIGHT DAYS ABOVE 70. A COLD FRONT BROUGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON APRIL 26 AND 27 AND A RETURN TO COOLER WEATHER. THE NEW WEATHER PATTERN THAT WAS EMERGING WAS A BATTLE BETWEEN BUILDING WARMTH IN THE SOUTHEAST US AND LINGERING COLD IN CANADA. WITH THE JET STREAM BETWEEN THESE AIR MASSES NEARBY, QUICK-MOVING STORM SYSTEMS WOULD BRING FREQUENT SHOWERS. RAIN FELL ON 16 OUT OF 17 DAYS FROM APRIL 18 TO MAY 4. AFTER A FEW BRIEF DAYS OF MILD TEMPERATURES, COOLER AIR MOVED IN AGAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF MAY. THE LAST FREEZE OF THE SEASON WAS ON MAY 9, A FEW DAYS EARLIER THAN NORMAL. SOME WARMER AIR MOVED INTO THE REGION FROM THE SOUTHWEST DURING THE LAST HALF OF MAY. THE TEMPERATURE TOPPED 70 DEGREES 11 TIMES WITH THE WARMEST DAY BEING ON MAY 26 WHEN IT REACHED 85 DEGREES. THEN A COLD FRONT BROUGHT A RETURN TO COOL CONDITIONS. OVERALL THE SPRING WAS REMEMBERED FOR BEING CLOUDY AND COOL WITH FREQUENT PRECIPITATION. ALTHOUGH PRECIPITATION WAS SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL, THE 42 DAYS OF MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION GAVE IT A RAINY REPUTATION. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE SPRING WAS 43.8 DEGREES WHICH WAS 0.9 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL AND THE COOLEST SPRING SINCE 2014. THE COOLEST SPRING WAS IN 1956 WHEN IT WAS 38.7 DEGREES. THE WARMEST WAS 49.7 DEGREES IN 2012. A TOTAL OF 9.87 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION FELL WHICH WAS 0.47 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THE HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION WAS ON APRIL 26 AND 27 WHEN 1.79 INCHES OF RAIN FELL. THE DRIEST SPRING WAS IN 1915 WHEN ONLY 3.61 INCHES WAS RECORDED. THE WETTEST WAS IN 1983 WHEN 18.14 INCHES WAS MEASURED. THERE WAS 9.2 INCHES OF SNOWFALL WHICH WAS 4.7 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THE HEAVIEST SNOW WAS ON MARCH 3 AND 4 WHEN 5.8 INCHES FELL. THE SNOWIEST SPRING WAS IN 1956 WHEN 48.2 INCHES FELL. THE LEAST SNOWY WAS IN 2010 WHEN ONLY A TRACE OF SNOW WAS OBSERVED. SNOWFALL FOR THE 2018-19 SEASON TOTALED 52.8 INCHES WHICH WAS 8.6 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THE HEAVIEST SNOW THIS SEASON CAME ON NOVEMBER 19 AND 20 WHEN 6.8 INCHES OF SNOW WAS RECORDED. THE SNOWIEST SEASON ON RECORD WAS IN 1873-74 WHEN 122.0 INCHES OF SNOW FELL. THE LEAST SNOWY SEASON WAS IN 1979-80 WHEN ONLY 27.0 INCHES FELL. THE FOLLOWING DAILY RECORDS WERE SET OR TIED IN SPRING 2019... DATE RECORD PREVIOUS MAR 7 -8 - COLDEST LOW TEMPERATURE -8 IN 2014, 2003 (TIED) $$ KIMBLE