by Barney Leach
January rainfall was slightly above normal with 3.79 inches. We had five days with measurable rainfall with a two-day total of 2.52 inches on January 2nd and 3rd. Normal rainfall for January is 3.62 inches.
Temperature-wise, January, which is normally our coldest month of the year, produced only three days with freezing temperatures. We had a low temperature of 28 degrees on January 20th. This was 20 degrees warmer than our low of 8 degrees in January of last year. High temperature for the month was 75 degrees on January 7th.
We are 41 days into winter with only five freezing temperature days so far. We have not surpassed our low temperature of 26 degrees back in November so far for the winter.
LOOKING AHEAD TO FEBRUARY: February is normally our third coldest month of the year. Until last year, February had produced the coldest temperature day over the past 25 years at 10 degrees on February 9, 2005. February also produced our warmest winter day over that period with a temperature of 91 degrees on February 19 of that same year.
February has produced most days with snow over the past 25 years.
Normal rainfall values currently used were derived from averages over the twenty-year period from 1997 through 2016.
The above rainfall and temperature data was recorded by Barney Leach, former volunteer 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.
