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CLIMATE REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW, MT
650 PM MST MON JAN 01 2024

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...THE GLASGOW MT CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE YEAR OF 2023...

CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD: 1991 TO 2020
CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD: 1893 TO 2023

WEATHER         OBSERVED          NORMAL  DEPART   LAST YEAR`S
                VALUE   DATE(S)   VALUE   FROM     VALUE
                                          NORMAL
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TEMPERATURE (F)
RECORD
 HIGH            113   07/31/1900
 LOW             -59   02/15/1936
HIGHEST          107                 MM      MM
LOWEST           -18                 MM      MM
MEAN            45.6

PRECIPITATION (INCHES)
RECORD
 MAXIMUM       22.96   2011
TOTALS         11.90              13.44   -1.54

SNOWFALL (INCHES)
RECORDS
 TOTAL          83.4   2011
TOTALS          46.5               40.7             51.2

DEGREE DAYS
HEATING TOTAL   7754
COOLING TOTAL    830
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-  INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS.
R  INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED.
MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING.
T  INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT.

&&

2023 STARTED OFF NEAR NORMAL FOR JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, ALTHOUGH
JANUARY WAS DRIER THAN NORMAL.

MARCH WAS VERY WINTER-LIKE AND ENDED UP WITH 18.3 INCHES OF SNOW. IT
WAS THE THIRD SNOWIEST MARCH ON RECORD. THE MONTH AVERAGED 14.8
DEGREES COLDER THAN NORMAL AND WAS COLDER THAN FEBRUARY.

APRIL HAD WILD TEMPERATURE SWINGS BUT ENDED UP COOLER AND SLIGHTLY
DRIER THAN NORMAL.

MAY WAS WARM AND WET. PRECIPITATION TOTALED 3.89 INCHES AND THE 14TH
WETTEST MAY ON RECORD.

THE NEXT FOUR MONTHS WERE WARMER AND DRIER THAN NORMAL WHICH ALLOWED
SOME DROUGHT IMPACTS TO RETURN. THIS INCLUDED THE GRASSHOPERS.

OCTOBER THEN WAS COOLER AND SNOWIER THAN NORMAL. A STORM SYSTEM
BROUGHT 14 INCHES OF SNOW FROM OCTOBER 24TH TO THE 26TH, MAKING IT
THE GREATEST 3-DAY SNOWFALL TOTAL FOR OCTOBER, PASSING THE OLD
RECORD SET IN 2008 OF 13.6 INCHES. IT WAS ALSO THE SNOWIEST OCTOBER
ON RECORD.

WITH A GLOBAL EL NINO CLIMATE PATTERN IN PLACE, NOVEMBER AND
DECEMBER WERE WARMER AND DRIER THAN NORMAL. IN FACT, DECEMBER WAS
THE WARMEST DECEMBER ON RECORD.

THERE WERE 17 DAILY TEMPERATURE RECORDS BROKEN DURING THE YEAR. 15
WERE WARM ONES, 2 COLD ONES.

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