Friday kicks of the seasonal winter but the meteorological fall is September-October and November. And local weather observer Jim Blaess says that three month period was wetter and colder than normal. ‘Read more’ for details and information about the historical odds of white Christmas
Over the three month period, Blaess as the overall temperature was 49.7 degrees compared to the normal of 52.5 or about 2.8 degrees below normal.
Blaess says since 1878 the month of September 2018 is the 7th wettest and October is the 6th wettest and November was the coldest in 42 years and tied for 5th coldest November since 1879.
The precipitation over the September-October-November meteorological fall was 16.95 inches and that is more than nine inches above the normal of 7.51 for the three months.
Seasonal winter official arrives at 4:23 Friday afternoon.
Looking ahead to next week, Blaess says the Clinton area has NOT had a white Christmas more often than a white Christmas.
With the definition of one inch of snow on the ground as a White Christmas, Blaess says that since 1920 there have been 44 white Christmas years and 53 without.
He says the last two years have been white Christmases and 8 of the last 11.
Blaess says there were no White Christmases from 1952 through 1959 for one of the longest stretches of no snow on the ground on December 25th.
