Climatological Report (Monthly)
Issued by NWS
Issued by NWS
243 CXAK57 PAJK 040703 CLMKTN NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JUNEAU AK 828 PM AKST SUN MAR 03 2024 ................................... ...THE KETCHIKAN CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 2024... CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD: 1991 TO 2020 CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD: 1910 TO 2024 WEATHER OBSERVED NORMAL DEPART LAST YEAR`S VALUE DATE(S) VALUE FROM VALUE NORMAL .............................................................. TEMPERATURE (F) RECORD HIGH 63 02/08/1963 LOW 2 02/24/1994 02/01/1917 HIGHEST 55 02/16 50 5 LOWEST 22 02/26 17 5 AVG. MAXIMUM 42.1 40.9 1.2 AVG. MINIMUM 31.5 31.5 -0.0 MEAN 36.8 36.2 0.6 DAYS MAX >= 90 0 0.0 0.0 DAYS MAX <= 32 2 1.9 0.1 DAYS MIN <= 32 19 15.6 3.4 DAYS MIN <= 0 0 0.0 0.0 PRECIPITATION (INCHES) RECORD MAXIMUM 25.60 1954 MINIMUM 0.82 1989 TOTALS 4.25 11.80 -7.55 DAILY AVG. 0.15 NAN NAN DAYS >= .01 10 17.0 -7.0 DAYS >= .10 7 12.9 -5.9 DAYS >= .50 3 7.4 -4.4 DAYS >= 1.00 2 4.1 -2.1 GREATEST 24 HR. TOTAL 1.62 02/01 TO 02/02 DEGREE DAYS HEATING TOTAL 811 806 5 SINCE 7/1 4151 4743 -592 COOLING TOTAL 0 0 0 SINCE 1/1 0 0 0 FREEZE DATES EARLIEST 10/23 LATEST 04/19 .............................................................. WIND (MPH) AVERAGE WIND SPEED 6.6 HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 32/120 DATE 02/27 HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 50/120 DATE 02/27 WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH THUNDERSTORM 0 MIXED PRECIP 0 HEAVY RAIN 0 RAIN 2 LIGHT RAIN 13 FREEZING RAIN 0 LT FREEZING RAIN 0 HAIL 0 HEAVY SNOW 2 SNOW 2 LIGHT SNOW 7 SLEET 0 FOG 17 FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE 4 HAZE 1 - INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS. R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED. MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING. T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT. $$ ...TEMPERATURES NEAR NORMAL AND PRECIPITATION BELOW NORMAL FOR ALL OF SE AK FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY... The month was dominated by a combination of northeasterly outflow wind regimes from strong areas of high pressure centered over the northern British Columbia / Canadian Yukon region that brought dry and mostly clear conditions to the region and mainly weak to average frontal systems that approached the Panhandle that brought mostly light to moderate precipitation on average to the area. The average temperature for the month was very near normal for all 4 climate sites. All of the sites were appreciably below normal in terms of total monthly liquid equivalent precipitation. The values ranged from 1.4 inches below normal for Juneau Airport to 7.55 inches below normal for the Ketchikan Airport with the other 2 sites having their below normal magnitudes in between those 2 values. On the 1st of February, the Juneau Airport broke its daily snow accumulation total record with 7.0 inches, which exceeded the previous record of 6.5 inches set all the way back in 1961. On the 16th of the month, the Ketchikan Airport broke its record high temperature with 55 degrees, which exceeded the old record of 54 degrees set all the way back in 1964. On that same day, the Yakutat Airport broke its record high temperature with 48 degrees, which exceeded its old record of 47 degrees set in both 2015 and 2016. Chambers $$