2014 had a number of highs and lows in the weather.
Clinton area weather observer Jim Blaess said during the meteorological winter of December 2013 through February 2014 it was the 6th coldest winter since 1879. He said during that three month period there were 33 days with zero or below temperatures while the normal is eleven.
Blaess added that there was 42 and a half inches of snow and that compares to the normal of about 24 during the period.
In the month of March 2014 there was a record low when it dropped to 15-below zero on March 3rd. The previous low in the month of March was 14 below set in 1960 on the 5th and 6th that year.
Blaess said March 2014 was also the 5th driest March on record.
June’s about 8 and a third inches of rain was the 9th highest total since 1978. But, the weather observer said it was only the 13th June since 1891 with no days with 90 or above temperatures and the normal is four days.
July continued a cool trend. Blaess said it was 5th coolest July in records to 1879. There was a 90 degree day when it reached 90 on July 22nd. Blaess said that was third latest time of the year of a 90 degree day since 1883.
November 2014 was the coldest November since 1996 and tied for the 10th coldest in records back to 1879 according to Blaess. The 3-point-7 inches of snow in November 2014 was the most snow in a November since 1997 and Blaess said that compares with a normal of one-and-a-half of snow in November.
