The January overall temperature was about a degree above average while snowfall was about eight inches below normal. ‘Read more’ for the details.
Despite three days of sub-zero temperatures in the middle of January, Clinton area weather observer Jim Blaess says the month was warmer than normal overall.
Blaess says the overall temperature averaged just over 23 (23.4) degrees . He says that was one degree above normal for the month.
The coldest reading in January was on the 18th when it was six below zero. The highest temperature recorded by the weather observer was 48 on the 14th.
Blaess says it was the eleventh driest January in records to 1878. He says there was just over one-half inch (.53) precipitation and that was nearly one inch below normal (of 1.45 inches).
The total included about one and a half (1.4) inches of snow. Blaess says that’s about eight inches below normal (of 9.4 inches).
Blaess says that made January 2016 the tenth on the list of least snowiest in records to 1888.
Blaess says in February you can expect 1.63 inches of precipitation and that includes 7.6 inches of snow.
The weather observer says there are typically three days of zero or below weather in the month.
Blaess says the average high on February first is 32 and the average low is 15 and those rise to averages of 41 and 24 by February 29th.
Blaess says February of 2015 was in the record books for snow and cold.
He says a year ago the month was the 8th snowiest and 9th coldest on record.
The weather observer said there were nine days with zero or below weather. There was one record low tied and two record lows set in February 2015. Blaess says the nine below on February 23rd last year tied the record set in 1910. The low of 14 below zero broke the record of nine below set in 1934 and the low of 13 below zero on the 28th broke the record of four below set in 1962.
