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CLIMATE REPORT...UPDATED FOR TEXT SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
1150 AM CST MON FEB 12 2024

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...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
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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
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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.

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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.

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