Climatological Report (Seasonal)
Issued by NWS
Issued by NWS
903 CXUS51 KGYX 062253 CLSMHT PWMCLMMHT 000 TTAA00 KGYX 011133 CLIMATE REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME 552 PM EST FRI MAR 6 2020 ................................... ...THE MANCHESTER CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE WINTER SEASON, FROM 12/1/2019 TO 2/29/2020... CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1981 TO 2010 CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1885 TO 2020 WEATHER OBSERVED NORMAL DEPART LAST YEAR`S VALUE DATE(S) VALUE FROM VALUE DATE(S) NORMAL ................................................................ TEMPERATURE (F) HIGHEST 69 01/12 62 7 66 12/21 LOWEST -7 02/15 -5 -2 0 02/02 01/31 01/21 AVG. MAXIMUM 39.1 36.1 3.0 36.5 AVG. MINIMUM 23.3 19.1 4.2 20.4 MEAN 31.2 27.6 3.6 28.5 DAYS MAX >= 90 0 0.0 0.0 0 DAYS MAX <= 32 19 31.1 -12.1 25 DAYS MIN <= 32 78 82.1 -4.1 81 DAYS MIN <= 0 1 3.0 -2.0 3 PRECIPITATION (INCHES) TOTALS 10.25 9.08 1.17 8.76 DAILY AVG. 0.11 0.10 0.01 0.09 DAYS >= .01 28 30.3 -2.3 29 DAYS >= .10 20 17.7 2.3 17 DAYS >= .50 8 6.2 1.8 6 DAYS >= 1.00 1 1.7 -0.7 1 GREATEST 24 HR. TOTAL 1.35 12/14 SNOWFALL (INCHES) TOTALS 39.5 25.8 SINCE 7/1 39.5 38.9 SNOWDEPTH AVG. 3 1 DAYS >= TRACE 29 31 DAYS >= 1.0 10 8 GREATEST SNOW DEPTH 16 12/04 6 02/28 12/03 02/21 24 HR TOTAL 8.0 12/01 DEGREE_DAYS HEATING TOTAL 3048 3370 -322 3264 SINCE 7/1 4289 4697 -408 4640 COOLING TOTAL 0 0 0 0 SINCE 1/1 0 0 0 0 ................................................................. WIND (MPH) AVERAGE WIND SPEED 6.3 HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 32/320 DATE 01/16 HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 44/290 DATE 01/12 SKY COVER AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.60 AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 65 - INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS. R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED. MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING. T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT. && AFTER A VERY COLD NOVEMBER, METEOROLOGICAL WINTER BEGAN WITH A LONG DURATION SNOWSTORM. IT BEGAN ON DECEMBER 1 AND DIDN`T END UNTIL DECEMBER 3. A TOTAL OF 20.8 INCHES WAS MEASURED FROM THIS STORM WITH COLD WEATHER CONTINUING FOR THE FIRST WEEK OF DECEMBER. SOON THE WEATHER PATTERN BEGAN TO SHIFT AND MUCH WARMER AIR MOVED INTO THE REGION. THE TEMPERATURE TOPPED 50 DEGREES ON DECEMBER 9 AND 10 WITH RAIN FALLING. MORE RAIN AND 50 DEGREE WARMTH CAME ON DECEMBER 13 AND 14 WHEN MORE THAN 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN WASHED THE REST OF THE EARLY SEASON SNOW AWAY. MORE LIGHT SNOW FELL ON DECEMBER 17, BUT A RETURN TO WARM WEATHER LEFT ONLY A TRACE ON THE GROUND BY CHRISTMAS MORNING. ANOTHER LONG DURATION WINTER STORM BROUGHT SNOW, SLEET, AND FREEZING RAIN JUST BEFORE NEW YEARS. A NEW WEATHER PATTERN WAS BEGINNING TO EMERGE THAT FEATURED PERSISTENT MILD WEATHER WITH BRIEF PERIODS OF ARCTIC COLD. THE NEXT STRETCH OF WARM WEATHER PEAKED AT 69 DEGREES ON JANUARY 12. MID JANUARY SAW A FEW MORE SNOWSTORMS WITH COLDER AIR MOVING IN AS WELL. IT DIDN`T LAST LONG, THOUGH, AS MANCHESTER SAW ABOUT TWO WEEKS OF WARMER THAN NORMAL TEMPERATURES AT THE END OF JANUARY AND BEGINNING OF FEBRUARY WHICH MELTED THE SNOW PACK. A WINTER STORM BROUGHT SNOW, SLEET, AND FREEZING RAIN ON JANUARY 6 AND 7 FOLLOWED BY COLDER TEMPERATURES. ANOTHER SNOWSTORM ON FEBRUARY 13 BROUGHT EVEN COLDER AIR IN BEHIND IT. THE COLDEST TEMPERATURE WAS 7 BELOW ZERO ON FEBRUARY 15, THE COLDEST TEMPERATURE IN MORE THAN TWO YEARS (SINCE JANUARY 2, 2018). THE VERY NEXT DAY IT WARMED UP BACK INTO THE 40S AGAIN WITH THE WARM WEATHER LASTING MOST OF THE REST OF FEBRUARY, MELTING THE SNOW PACK ONCE AGAIN. THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE OF THIS STRETCH WAS 60 DEGREES ON FEBRUARY 24. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE WINTER WAS 31.2 DEGREES WHICH WAS 3.6 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THE WARMEST WINTER WAS IN 2015-16 WHEN THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WAS 33.7 DEGREES. THE COLDEST WAS 19.3 DEGREES IN 1947-48. A TOTAL OF 10.25 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION FELL WHICH WAS 1.17 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS INCLUDES 39.5 INCHES OF SNOW AND SLEET. THE HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION WAS IN DECEMBER WHEN THREE MAJOR STORMS AFFECTED THE AREA. THE FIRST DROPPED 1.46 INCHES MOSTLY IN THE FORM OF SNOW ON DECEMBER 1 THROUGH 3. THE NEXT BROUGHT 1.56 INCHES OF RAIN ON DECEMBER 13 AND 14. THE LAST BROUGHT 1.19 INCHES OF SNOW, SLEET, FREEZING RAIN, AND RAIN ON DECEMBER 29 THROUGH 31. THE WETTEST DECEMBER WAS IN 1886-87 WHEN 15.41 INCHES FELL. THE DRIEST WAS IN 1930-31 WHEN ONLY 5.56 INCHES WAS RECORDED. HISTORICAL RECORDS AT MANCHESTER BEGAN IN 1885, BUT WITHIN THIS RECORD THERE REMAIN NUMEROUS YEARS OF UNAVAILABLE DATA. DUE TO THIS, HISTORICAL RECORDS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED INCOMPLETE AS SOME SIGNIFICANT EXTREMES MAY BE MISSING FROM THE DATA. MORE CONSISTENT MODERN RECORDS BEGAN IN 1998 AND CONTINUE TO THE PRESENT. $$ KIMBLE