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GRAY CLIMATE DATA FOR THE SPRING OF 2013
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
1215 AM EDT FRI JUN 7 2013

THIS IS A SEASONAL SUMMARY FOR THE METEOROLOGICAL SPRING
(MARCH - APRIL -MAY) OF 2013 FOR GRAY, MAINE.

THE SPRING OF 2013 IN GRAY, MAINE WAS SLIGHTLY WARMER THAN NORMAL
AND MUCH DRIER THAN NORMAL.

THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WAS 44.2 DEGREES WHICH WAS 0.2 DEGREES ABOVE
NORMAL. ONLY MARCH, BY 1.1 DEGREES, WAS WARMER THAN NORMAL. APRIL,
BY 0.4 DEGREES, AND MAY, BY JUST 0.1 DEGREES, WERE COOLER THAN
NORMAL.

TEMPERATURES RANGED FROM A LOW OF 12 ON MARCH 18TH TO A RECORD
SETTING HIGH OF 92 DEGREES ON MAY 31ST. THE 92 DEGREE READING SET
A RECORD AS THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED IN THE MONTH
OF MAY AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN GRAY. RECORDS,
HOWEVER, ONLY DATE BACK TO OCTOBER OF 1995. THE PREVIOUS RECORD
WARMEST MAY TEMPERATURE WAS 91 DEGREES WHICH OCCURRED FOUR TIMES...
MOST RECENTLY ON MAY 26, 2010.

GRAY MEASURED JUST UNDER NINE INCHES (8.99 INCHES) OF PRECIPITATION
(COMBINED RAINFALL PLUS MELTED SNOWFALL) THIS SPRING. THIS WAS
3.46 INCHES BELOW NORMAL.

BOTH MARCH AND APRIL WERE MUCH DRIER THAN NORMAL...BY OVER TWO
INCHES OF PRECIPITATION EACH MONTH...WHILE MAY WAS THE ONLY MONTH
WITH ABOVE NORMAL RAINFALL...BY 1.20 INCHES.

THE WETTEST PERIOD THIS SPRING WAS FROM MAY 19TH THROUGH THE 26TH
WITH EIGHT CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF RAIN. THIS WAS HIGHLIGHTED BY BACK
TO BACK DAYS WITH OVER AN INCH OF RAIN...THE 24TH (WITH 1.03 INCHES)
AND THE 25TH (WITH 1.12 INCHES). THESE WERE THE ONLY TWO DAYS THIS
SPRING TO SEE OVER AN INCH OF PRECIPITATION. THE EIGHT DAY TOTAL,
FROM MAY 19TH THROUGH THE 26TH, PICKED UP 3.73 INCHES OF RAIN...
NEARLY AS MUCH AS MARCH AND APRIL COMBINED (3.89 INCHES).

GRAY RECORDED 13.1 INCHES OF SNOW THIS SPRING. THIS WAS NEARLY A
FOOT (11.6 INCHES) BELOW NORMAL. MOST OF THE SNOW, 12.5 INCHES,
FELL IN MARCH WHILE APRIL HAD JUST 0.6 INCHES AND MAY HAD ZERO
SNOWFALL.

THE BIGGEST SNOWSTORM THIS SPRING WAS 9.2 INCHES ON MARCH 19TH
AND 20TH. THE ONLY OTHER NOTABLE SNOWFALL OVER AN INCH WAS 2.5
INCHES FROM MARCH 1ST THROUGH THE 3RD.

SPRING OF 2013 IN GRAY BY THE NUMBERS...

                            MAR.       APR.       MAY.          SPRING 2013
...TEMPERATURES...

AVERAGE TEMPERATURE        34.0       43.9       54.8           44.2
30 YEAR NORMAL             32.9       44.3       54.9           44.0
DEPARTURE              PLUS 1.1  MINUS 0.4  MINUS 0.1       PLUS 0.2

HIGHEST TEMPERATURE          54         72         92           92 - MAY 31ST
LOWEST TEMPERATURE           12         24         36           12 - MARCH 18TH

...PRECIPITATION...

MEASURED (INCHES)          2.10       1.79        5.10          8.99
30 YEAR NORMAL             4.17       4.38        3.90         12.45
DEPARTURE            MINUS 2.07 MINUS 2.59   PLUS 1.20    MINUS 3.46

GREATEST RAINFALL
IN ANY 24-HOUR PERIOD      0.92       0.47        1.28          1.28 - MAY 24-25TH

...SNOWFALL DATA...

MEASURED (INCHES)          12.5        0.6        0.0          13.1
30 YEAR NORMAL             19.9        4.8        0.0          24.7
DEPARTURE             MINUS 7.4  MINUS 4.2       NONE    MINUS 11.6

GREATEST SNOWFALL (INCHES)
IN ANY 24-HOUR PERIOD       8.1        0.6        0.O           8.1 - MARCH 19TH

...DEGREE DAY DATA...

HEATING DEGREE DAYS         955        625        329          1909
30 YEAR NORMAL              993        624        323          1940
DEPARTURE              MINUS 38     PLUS 1     PLUS 6      MINUS 31

COOLING DEGREE DAYS           0          0         17            17
30 YEAR NORMAL                0          1         10            11
DEPARTURE                  NONE    MINUS 1     PLUS 7        PLUS 6

...NUMBER OF DAYS DURING THE SPRING WITH...

                              SPRING 2013   NORMAL    DEPARTURE
MAX TEMPERATURE 90 OR WARMER      1            0.3     PLUS 0.7
MAX TEMPERATURE 32 OR COLDER      2            4.9    MINUS 2.9
MIN TEMPERATURE 32 OR COLDER     38           36.0     PLUS 2.0
MIN TEMPERATURE  0 OR COLDER      0            0.5    MINUS 0.5

0.01 INCH OR MORE PCPN           35           36.2    MINUS 1.2
1.00 INCH OR MORE PCPN            2            3.2    MINUS 1.2
SNOWFALL TRACE OR MORE           18            8.4     PLUS 9.6
SNOWFALL 1 INCH OR MORE           3            4.9    MINUS 1.9
SNOWFALL 6 INCHES OR MORE         1            N/A

NOTE...THE METEOROLOGICAL SPRING REFERS TO MARCH - APRIL - MAY
TOTALS ONLY.

IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT WEATHER RECORDS IN GRAY ARE LIMITED...GOING BACK
ONLY 18 YEARS...BEGINNING IN OCTOBER OF 1995.

$$

SJC