Climatological Report (Annual)
Issued by NWS Portland, OR
Issued by NWS Portland, OR
000 CXUS56 KPQR 011327 CLAAST ANNUAL CLIMATE REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR 527 AM PST WED JAN 1 2020 ...ASTORIA 2019 WEATHER IN REVIEW... ================================================================ MONTHLY WEATHER RECAPS... JANUARY...JANUARY WAS FOR THE MOST PART A RATHER MILD MONTH, AERAGE TEMPERATURES BEING A BIT ABOVE NORMAL. A STRONG FRONT BROUGHT RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS FROM THE 3RD TO THE 6TH. THE STRONGEST WINDS WERE ON THE 3RD, WITH GUSTS 55 TO 65 MPH ACROSS THE ASTORIA AREA. ANOTHER STRONG FRONT PUSHED ACROSS THE REGION ON THE 17TH INTO THE 18TH, WITH 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN, ALONG WITH BREEZY SOUTH WINDS. BUT, JANUARY ENDED ON A DRY NOTE, WITH NO RAIN AFTER THE 23RD. AS A RESULT, ASTORIA ONLY GOT ABOUT HALF ITS NORMAL JANUARY RAINFALL. FEBRUARY...OLD MAN WINTER SHOWED UP DURING THE FIRST PART OF THE MONTH, WITH SNOW AND COLD TEMPERATURES. SNOW FELL ON THE 4TH AND 5TH, WITH MANY AREAS GETTING 0.5 TO 2 INCHES OF SNOW, BUT MUCH MORE SNOW FELL OVER THE COAST RANGE. ANOTHER SYSTEM ARRIVED ON THE 8TH AND 9TH, BRINGING ABOUT A HALF TO 1 INCH OF SNOW REPORTED IN AND AROUND THE ASTORIA AREA. IT WAS A CHILLY START TO FEBRUARY, WITH OVERNIGHT LOWS DROPPING INTO THE 20S FROM THE 3RD TO 10TH. THEN, ON THE 11TH, MILDER AIR PUSHED INTO THE REGION, BRINGING HEAVY RAINS. OVER 2.5 INCHES FELL AT ASTORIA FROM 11TH INTO THE 12TH, WITH 4 TO 5 INCHES OVER THE COAST MTNS AND WILLAPA HILLS. OVERALL, IT WAS THE 2ND COLDEST FEBRUARY FOR THE ASTORIA AIRPORT (1989 WAS COLDEST), AND THE 9TH COLDEST FEBRUARY FOR THE ASTORIA AREA SINCE 1851. MARCH.. MARCH STARTED COOL, WITH OVERNIGHT LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S. BUT THAT CHANGED BY MID MONTH, AS OFFSHORE FLOW EAST OF THE CASCADES BROUGHT MILD EAST WINDS TO AREA. TEMPERATURES ROSE INOT THE MIDDLE 70S ON THE 18TH TO 20TH. FOR MARCH, THE LAST TIME A 3-DAY STREAK OF 70 DEG OR MORE OCCURRED WAS WAY BACK IN 1934. AFTERWARD, IT WAS BACK TO MORE TYPICAL CONDITIONS FOR LATE MARCH. MARCH ENDED AS THE 4TH DRIEST FOR ASTORIA, WITH ABOUT A THIRD OF ITS NORMAL MARCH RAINFALL. APRIL...WELL, EVEN MOTHER NATURE CAN GIVE US A BREAK. OVERALL, APRIL 2019 SAW RATHER TRANQUIL WEATHER, WITH NEAR NORMAL TEMPERAURES AND NORMAL RAINFALL. MAY...NOT QUITE AS MUCH RAIN FELL IN MAY, BUT, THERE WAS A LOT MORE CLOUDINESS AT NIGHT. THESE CLOUDS KEPT OVERNIGHT LOWS WARMER THAN NORMAL, CONTRIBUTING TO A WARMER MAY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE. TASTE OF SUMMER ON THE 9TH AND 10TH, WITH HIGHS SPIKING INTO THE LOWER 80S. IT WAS THE FIRST BACK TO BACK DAYS OF 80 DEG OR WARMER SINCE 2014. JUNE...IT WAS A PLEASANT MONTH FOR COASTAL GARDENERS, WITH MILD WEATHER AND DRIER THAN NORMAL WEATHER. BUT, OVERALL RATHER UNEVENTFUL MONTH, WEATHERWISE. JULY...MILD WEATHER CONTINUED IN JULY, WITH 14 DAYS WITH A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF AT LEAST 70 DEG. ASIDE FROM THE 22 SUCH DAYS IN 2015, HAVE TO GO BACK TO 1979 TO GET AT LEAST 14 DAYS OF 70 DEG OR MORE IN JULY. RAINFALL WAS UP A BIT, WITH ABOUT HALF OF THE JULY RAIN OCCURRING ON THE 9TH AND 10TH. AUGUST...AUGUST CONTINUE THE MILD STRING OF WEATHER THAT JULY STARTED, WITH 22 OF THE 31 DAYS HAVING A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF AT LEAST 70 DEG (10 IS NORMAL FOR AUGUST). SEPTEMBER...SEPTEMBER OPENED ON THE MILD SIDE, WITH HIGHS IN 70S. BUT, A STRONG FRONT ARRIVED 6TH AND 7TH, WITH COOLER TEMPERATURES. THOUGH THERE WERE SOME MILD DAYS, HIGHS FOR FOR REST OF THE MONTH STAYED IN THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 60S. AN ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN BROUGHT SEVERAL FRONTS TO THE REGION, ALONG WITH RAIN, INTERMIXED WITH SHOWERS AND SOME THUNDERSTORMS. SHOWERS ON THE 16TH DID PRODUCE A WATERSPOUT OFF THE LONG BEACH PENINSULA. TOTAL RAINFALL FOR SEPTEMBER WAS NEARLY 3 TIMES THE NORMAL, WITH OVER 6 INCHES AT THE ASTORIA AIRPORT. BUT, EVEN SO, SEPTEMBER DID NOT FINISH IN TOP 10 WETTEST. OCTOBER...TYPICALLY, THE BIG TRANSITION FROM THE DRY MILD FALL WEATHER TO THE COOL WET WEATHER OF FALL OCCURS IN THE FIRST WEEK OF OCTOBER. WELL, IT WAS NOT SO FAR OFF IN 2019, AS COOLER TEMPS DOMINATED AFTER THE 6TH, WITH HIGHS MOSTLY IN THE 50S. BUT, RAIN WAS NOT AS PERSISTENT, WITH THE MOST RAINY PERIOD BEING FROM THE 16TH TO 22ND. ABOUT 90 PERCENT OF THE OCTOBER RAINFALL FELL DURING THIS 7-DAY STRETCH, WITH 60 PERCENT FALLING ON 16TH TO 18TH. INTERESTINGLY, THE COOLER WEATHER GAVE ASTORIA ITS 3RD COLDEST OCTOBER ON RECORD (1946 AND 1949 COLDEST). THE 32 DEG ON THE MORNING OF THE 10TH WAS THE 3RD EARLIEST FREEZING TEMPERATURE OF FALL ON RECORD FOR ASTORIA, JUST SHY OF THE EARLIEST WHICH WAS OCT 10 IN 1983. NOVEMBER...A MILD MONTH, AS STORM TRACK WAS MOSTLY SHIFTED SOUTH OF THE REGION. THIS BROUGHT A LOT MORE IN WAY OF DRY DAYS, BUT ALSO LOT MORE IN WAY OF LATE NIGHT AND MORNING FOG. A FRONT ARRIVED ON THE 22ND, BRINGING SOME RAIN AND MUCH COOLER AIR. A REINFORCING SHOT OF COLD AIR ARRIVED ON THE 29TH, WITH OVERNIGHT LOWS DROPPING INTO THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 20S. NOVEMBER ENDED AS THE 5TH DRIEST ON RECORD, WITH 2.20 INCHES OF RAIN (1979 WAS DRIEST WITH 1.45 INCHES). DECEMBER...A RATHER BENIGN START TO THE MONTH, WITH RATHER WEAK FRONTS MOVING ACROSS THE AREA FOR THE FIRST HALF OF THE MONTH. BUT, A RETURN TO MUCH MORE ACTIVE WEATHER BY THE 18TH, AS A SERIES OF WET FRONTS ARRIVED. A RATHER SLOW MOVING FRONT ON THE 19TH AND 20TH BROUGHT VERY HEAVY RAIN TO SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON AND THE NORTH OREGON COAST. ASTORIA AIRPORT PICKED UP OVER 5 INCHES OF RAIN DURING THAT 2-DAY PERIOD, WHILE 8 TO 11 INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN THE WILLAPA HILLS AND NORTH COAST RANGE. RIVERS ROSE, WITH FLOODING ON SEVERAL RIVERS ON THE 21ST INTO THE 22ND. THE 20TH SAW 3.42 INCHES OF RAIN, MAKING IT THE 9TH WETTEST DAY IN DECEMBER SINCE RECORDS BEGAN. ============================================================= NEW RECORDS SET IN 2019 (PREVIOUS RECORD IN PARENTHESES) + INDICATES MOST RECENT OF MULTIPLE OCCURRENCES JANUARY.... NO NEW RECORDS SET IN JANUARY. FEBRUARY.... NO NEW RECORDS SET IN FEBRUARY. MARCH... 4TH NEW. DAILY COLD LOW TEMP 26 ( 27 /1955 ) 5TH TIED. DAILY COLD LOW TEMP 26 ( 26 /1955 ) 17TH NEW. DAILY WARM HIGH TEMP 69 ( 67 /1956 ) 18TH TIED. DAILY WARM HIGH TEMP 74 ( 74 /1928 ) 19TH NEW. DAILY WARM HIGH TEMP 77 ( 72 /1914 ) *** 4TH DRIEST MARCH APRIL... NO NEW RECORDS SET IN APRIL. MAY... 9TH NEW. DAILY WARM HIGH TEMP 85 ( 78 /1940 ) JUNE... NO NEW RECORDS SET IN JUNE. JULY... NO NEW RECORDS SET IN JULY. AUGUST... 27TH NEW. DAILY WARM HIGH TEMP 91 ( 88 /1894 ) SEPTEMBER... 9TH NEW. DAILY RAINFALL 1.51" (1.15"/1956 ) OCTOBER... 1ST TIED. DAILY COLD LOW TEMP 35 ( 35 /1983 ) 10TH TIED. DAILY COLD LOW TEMP 32 ( 34 /2008+) *** 3RD COLDEST OCTOBER NOVEMBER... *** 5TH DRIEST NOVEMBER DECEMBER... 20TH NEW. DAILY RAINFALL 3.42" (3.25"/1906 ) ============================================================== 2019 ASTORIA AIRPORT TEMPERATURE DATA + INDICATES MOST RECENT OF MULTIPLE OCCURRENCES |--- AVERAGES ----| MEAN T DEPART| EXTREME TEMPS/DATE MONTH |HIGHS LOWS MEAN| FROM NORMAL | HIGHEST LOWEST -------------------------------------------------------------- JAN 52.0 38.5 45.3 +1.5 DEG 58 /29TH 29 / 1ST FEB 44.9 32.7 38.8 -5.6 DEG 52 / 1ST 24 / 6TH MAR 55.6 34.4 45.0 -1.4 DEG 77 /19TH 26 / 5TH APR 56.7 43.9 50.3 +1.6 DEG 67 /30TH 35 /28TH MAY 61.5 49.3 55.4 +2.4 DEG 85 / 9TH 41 / 1ST JUN 65.3 50.8 58.1 +1.1 DEG 86 /11TH 43 / 4TH JUL 70.2 56.3 62.8 +2.5 DEG 76 /25TH 48 /20TH AUG 71.2 55.6 63.4 +2.5 DEG 91 /27TH 47 /26TH SEP 66.7 52.6 59.7 +1.2 DEG 77 / 5TH 36 /30TH OCT 58.7 40.9 49.8 -2.8 DEG 68 /11TH 29 /31ST NOV 53.8 38.3 46.1 -0.7 DEG 64 / 7TH 24 /29TH DEC 49.0 38.2 43.6 +0.9 DEG 55 /20TH 30 /26TH+ 2019 58.8 44.3 51.5 +0.2 DEG 91 /AUG 27 24 /NOV 29+ NORMAL 58.6 43.9 51.3 DAYS WITH TEMPERATURES IN 2019 WHERE... |------ MAXIMUM TEMP --------||------ MINIMUM TEMP ---| <=32 60+ 70+ 80+ 90+ 100+ <=20 <=32 50+ 60+ -------------------------------------------------------------- JAN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 FEB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 0 0 MAR 0 6 3 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 APR 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 MAY 0 16 2 2 0 0 0 0 17 0 JUN 0 30 4 1 0 0 0 0 20 0 JUL 0 31 14 0 0 0 0 0 30 7 AUG 0 31 21 1 1 0 0 0 30 3 SEP 0 28 5 0 0 0 0 0 24 2 OCT 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 0 NOV 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 9 1 0 DEC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 0 2019 0 164 49 4 1 0 0 50 128 12 NORMAL <1 160 33 4 0 0 1 28 102 2 FIRST/LAST OCCURRENCES OF... IN 2019 NORMAL LAST 32 DEG OR COLDER IN SPRING MAR 11 (APR 7) FIRST 70+ DEG OF THE YEAR MAR 18 (APR 12) FIRST 80+ DEG OF THE YEAR MAY 9 (JUN 13) FIRST 90+ DEG OF THE YEAR AUG 27 (JUL 3) LAST 90+ DEG OF THE YEAR AUG 27 (JUL 14) LAST 80+ DEG OF THE YEAR AUG 27 (SEP 11) LAST 70+ DEG OF THE YEAR SEP 12 (OCT 15) FIRST 32 DEG OR COLDER IN FALL OCT 10 (NOV 6) ============================================================== 2019 ASTORIA AIRPORT RAINFALL DATA... TOTAL DEPARTURE DAYS WITH AT LEAST... GREATEST IN MONTH RAIN FM NORMAL 0.01 0.10 0.50 1.00 24HRS & DATE -------------------------------------------------------------- JAN 4.93 -5.27 15 12 2 1 1.24 JAN 18-19 FEB 7.66 +0.47 22 16 5 2 1.91 FEB 11-12 MAR 2.46 -4.99 11 8 0 0 0.81 MAR 11-12 APR 5.30 +0.10 21 13 3 1 1.58 APR 6-7 MAY 1.66 -1.66 10 7 0 0 0.51 MAY 18-19 JUN 1.08 -1.47 11 3 0 0 0.43 JUN 27-28 JUL 1.63 +0.60 13 3 0 0 0.78 JUL 9-10 AUG 0.95 -0.21 9 3 1 0 0.52 AUG 21 SEP 6.13 +3.99 16 11 4 3 2.04 SEP 8-9 OCT 6.96 +0.98 15 10 6 2 1.81 OCT 18-19 NOV 2.20 -8.95 11 8 1 0 0.58 NOV 15 DEC 10.55 +0.66 22 14 6 3 3.42 DEC 20 2019 51.51 -15.75 176 108 28 12 3.42 DEC 20 NORMAL 67.26 191 128 45 14 ASTORIA WATER YEAR 2018-19 (1 OCT 2018 THROUGH 30 SEP 2019) 57.51 INCHES WHICH WAS 5.25 INCHES BELOW NORMAL ============================================================ 2019 ASTORIA AIRPORT WIND AND PRESSURE DATA... AVERAGE SPEED (MPH) STRONGEST WIND GUST (MPH) 2019 NORMAL DIRECTION SPEED DATE ------------------------------------------------------------ JAN 7.8 (8.8) SOUTHWEST 52 MPH JAN 3 FEB 6.9 (8.4) SOUTHWEST 45 MPH FEB 11 MAR 6.3 (8.3) EAST 36 MPH MAR 19 APR 8.1 (8.2) SOUTH 39 MPH APR 5 MAY 6.7 (8.1) SOUTHWEST 36 MPH MAY 20 JUN 7.8 (8.3) NORTHWEST 30 MPH JUN 10 JUL 6.7 (8.5) SOUTHWEST 31 MPH JUL 17 AUG 6.7 (7.7) SOUTHWEST 32 MPH AUG 21+ SEP 6.1 (7.0) NORTHWEST 38 MPH SEP 22 OCT 6.5 (7.1) SOUTH 39 MPH OCT 21 NOV 5.8 (8.3) SOUTH 34 MPH NOV 17 DEC 5.8 (8.7) SOUTH 60 MPH DEC 20 2019 6.7 (8.0) SOUTH 60 MPH DEC 20 HIGHEST PRESSURE IN 2019... 30.51 INCHES JAN 24 LOWEST PRESSURE IN 2019... 29.04 INCHES FEB 14 ============================================================ ASTORIA AREA CLIMATE PERIOD OF RECORDS... 1887 TO 2019 ASTORIA CLIMATE NORMALS BASED ON... 1981 TO 2010 ============================================================ DATA COMPILED BY ROCKEY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OREGON ONLINE AT: WEATHER.GOV/PORTLAND $$