Our monthly rainfall topped normal in January for the first time since June of last year with 4.21 inches. We had nine days with measureable rainfall with a greatest one-day total of 2.45 inches on January 10. Our normal rainfall for January is 3.00 inches.
January temperatures came in somewhat above normal and without a freeze. We had a low temperature of 33 degrees on January 12 and a high of 78 degrees on January 16. January is normally our coldest month of the year and holds the record low temperature with eight degrees recorded on January 17, 2018.
Our two coldest months of the year, December and January, are behind us and we are just a few days away from winter’s mid-point which on an average produces our coldest time of the year. At this point, we have not had a winter-freeze. We did have two freezes back in November and two freezes in the Autumn portion of December.
Looking ahead to February: February is normally our third coldest month of the year and holds the record as our second coldest temperature of 10 degrees on February 4, 1996.
Our normal February rain fall is 2.96 inches. In recent years, we have had most of our frozen precipitation in February around the mid-point of winter. The mid-point of winter is February 4.
The above rainfall and temperature data was recorded by Barney Leach, former co-op weather volunteer for the National Weather Service and former weather volunteer for Channel 8 in Dallas, Channel 10 in Waco and radio station KNES in Fairfield.
