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MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
1000 PM EDT THU APR 25 2013

...MARCH 2013 CLIMATE STATISTICS FOR THE HOUGHTON COUNTY AIRPORT...

...COLD WITH ABOVE NORMAL PRECIPITATION AND SNOWFALL...

                                    NORMAL   DEPARTURE
AVERAGE TEMPERATURE         21.3     25.2  MINUS    3.9
AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE    29.0     33.5  MINUS    4.5
AVERAGE LOW TEMPERATURE     13.5     16.8  MINUS    3.3
HEATING DEGREE DAYS         1348     1235   PLUS    123
COOLING DEGREE DAYS            0        0             0
TOTAL PRECIPITATION         2.39     1.56   PLUS   0.83
TOTAL SNOWFALL              35.9     19.2   PLUS   16.7

HIGHEST TEMPERATURE:                    44 ON 3/29
LOWEST TEMPERATURE:                     -9 ON 3/3
GREATEST 24 HOUR PRECIPITATION:       0.48 ON 3/11
GREATEST 24 HOUR SNOWFALL:             7.4 ON 3/11

NO NEW DAILY OR MONTHLY RECORDS ESTABLISHED IN MARCH 2013

MANUAL RECORDS AT THE HOUGHTON COUNTY AIRPORT BEGAN IN AUGUST 1952
BUT ENDED IN OCTOBER 2000. THE DATA LISTED HERE ARE TAKEN FROM THE
AUTOMATED SURFACE OBSERVATION SYSTEM NEAR THE ORIGINAL OBSERVATION
SITE. THESE OBSERVATIONS ARE COMPARED TO NORMALS FOR 1981 TO 2010.
ANY DATA LISTED FROM YEARS BEFORE 1952 WERE TAKEN AT NEARBY SITES.
NOTE ALL TEMPERATURES ARE IN FAHRENHEIT AND PRECIPITATION IS IN
INCHES. ALL CLIMATE DATA LISTED IN THIS PRODUCT ARE UNOFFICIAL. FOR
OFFICIAL DATA...PLEASE REFER TO THE NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER.

NWS MARQUETTE WEB PAGE IS AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/MQT/INDEX.HTM
(ALL LOWER CASE). CONTACT THE NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER AT (828)
271-4800 OR WWW.NCDC.NOAA.GOV.

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