March was cooler and drier than normal-‘read more’ for the details.
The overall temperature for the month of March averaged 37.3 degrees which official Clinton area weather observer Jim Blaess says was about 2 degrees below the normal for the month.
The month included the high of 79 on March 16th and lowest reading was 5-below zero on the 5th.
Blaess added that there were two days with temperatures of zero or below and that’s the most since 2003 when there were also two days.
Precipitation for the month was just under 7-tenths of an inch. Blaess says that was about one-point-four inches below average for the month. The weather observer said March was the 5th month in a row with below average precipitation.
In March there was just over 2 inches of snow and the normal is three inches.
For the snow season of October through March there was nearly 34 inches of snow and Blaess says that’s about four inches more than the average.
For the first three months of the year, Blaess reported just under 3-and-a-half inches of precipitation and that’s nearly two inches below the year-to-date average.
For April you can expect about three inches of precipitation that includes a half-an-inch of snow.
Blaess says the average high on April first is 57 and average low is 35 and those rise to 69 and 46 by the end of the month.
