Climatological Report (Monthly)
Issued by NWS Shreveport, LA
Issued by NWS Shreveport, LA
167 CXUS54 KSHV 121750 AAA CLMSHV CLIMATE REPORT...UPDATED FOR TEXT SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA 1150 AM CST MON FEB 12 2024 ................................... ...THE SHREVEPORT CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY 2024... CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD: 1991 TO 2020 CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD: 1874 TO 2024 WEATHER OBSERVED NORMAL DEPART VALUE DATE(S) VALUE FROM NORMAL ................................................ TEMPERATURE (F) RECORD HIGH 85 01/25/1950 LOW -2 01/18/1930 HIGHEST 79 01/30 LOWEST 13 01/17 MEAN 45.7 47.9 -2.2 DAYS MAX >= 90 0 DAYS MIN <= 32 13 PRECIPITATION (INCHES) TOTALS 10.33 4.40 5.93 DAYS >= .01 13 DAYS >= .50 6 DAYS >= 1.00 4 GREATEST 24 HR. TOTAL 3.03 01/23 TO 01/23 DEGREE DAYS HEATING TOTAL 591 537 54 COOLING TOTAL 0 5 -5 ................................................ WIND (MPH) AVERAGE WIND SPEED 7.9 HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 31/280 DATE 01/12 HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 44/300 DATE 01/12 WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH THUNDERSTORM 3 FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE 3 - INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS. R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED. MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING. T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT. && WEATHERWISE DURING JANUARY 2024, SHREVEPORT RECORDED COOLER THAN NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND MUCH ABOVE NORMAL PRECIPITATION. THE 45.7 DEGREE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR JANUARY DID NOT RANK IN THE TOP 40 COOLEST JANUARYS ON RECORD, BUT JANUARY DID RANK AS THE 5TH WETTEST ON RECORD WITH 10.33 INCHES, BEHIND THE MOST RECENT AND WETTEST JANUARY ON RECORD (1999, WHICH RECORDED 12.96 INCHES). THIRTEEN OF THE THIRTY-ONE DAYS IN THE MONTH RECORDED MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION, WHICH TIED FOR 9TH MOST NUMBER OF DAYS WITH MULTIPLE OTHER YEARS. A LOWEST MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE RECORD OF 23 DEGREES WAS SET ON JANUARY 15TH, SMASHING THE OLD RECORD OF 31 DEGREES SET BACK IN 1917. A LOWEST MINIMUM TEMPERATURE RECORD WAS ALSO SET ON JANUARY 16TH, JUST BEATING THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 17 DEGREES SET BACK IN 1992. JANUARY WAS HIGHLIGHTED BY A BITTERLY COLD ARCTIC AIR MASS THAT INVADED THE REGION ON THE 14TH, WHICH LINGERED THROUGH THE 17TH BEFORE MODIFYING. AS THIS AIR MASS MADE ITS WAY INTO THE AREA, AREAS OF LIGHT FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET DEVELOPED AND SPREAD ACROSS MUCH OF EAST TEXAS, NORTH LOUISIANA, AND EXTREME SOUTHERN ARKANSAS LATE ON THE 14TH THROUGH MIDDAY ON THE 15TH, WITH WIDESPREAD ICE (SLEET) ACCUMULATIONS OF ONE-QUARTER TO THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH, WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS MEASURED ON THE GROUND. THIS ICESTORM CRIPPLED MUCH OF THE REGION THROUGH THE AFTERNOON ON THE 17TH, BEFORE TEMPERATURES WERE ABLE TO CLIMB BACK ABOVE FREEZING. IN ALL, SHREVEPORT TOTALED 69 HOURS WHERE TEMPERATURES WERE AT OR BELOW FREEZING BETWEEN 2 PM ON THE 14TH AND 11 AM ON THE 17TH. FOLLOWING THIS WINTER STORM, A PROLONGED PERIOD OF RAIN (SOME OF WHICH WAS HEAVY), FELL ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION. IN FACT, SIX CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF MEASURABLE RAIN FELL IN SHREVEPORT, WITH A STORM TOTAL AMOUNT OF 7.39 INCHES RECORDED AT THE SHREVEPORT REGIONAL AIRPORT BETWEEN THE 22ND-27TH. WIDESPREAD RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 6-9 INCHES FELL ACROSS NORTHWEST LOUISIANA, THUS RECHARGING THE AREA LAKES, RIVERS, CREEKS, AND BAYOUS FROM THE DROUGHT OBSERVED FROM THE MID/LATE SUMMER THROUGH THE MID-WINTER MONTHS. WHILE NO FLASH FLOODING WAS OBSERVED ACROSS THE SHREVEPORT/BOSSIER CITY METRO AREA WITH THIS EXCESSIVE RAIN, WALLACE AND CROSS LAKES CRESTED JUST BELOW THEIR RESPECTIVE FLOOD STAGE, ALTHOUGH SOME MINOR LOWLAND FLOODING WAS NOTED IN PORTIONS OF THE WALLACE LAKE WATERSHED IN FAR SOUTHERN CADDO PARISH. $$ 15