How will you remember 2016?

One way is to think of the weather. In a sentence: "It was hotter and dryer than normal."

However, there's more to the story. Here’s some facts and figures to help – provided by Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.

In the Pandora-Bluffton area 2016 records include:
62.9 - Average maximum temperature
43.6 - Average minimum temperature
53.2 - Average temperature
0 - Absolute minimum temperature
29.05 inches – Precipitation
22.1 inches – Snowfall
Normal annual averages:
37.05 inches – Precipitation
50.3 – Normal average temperatures (60+ year average)

The attachment shows all of the above figures broken down monthly. The attachment also shows annual averages from 2006 through 2015.

As a point of record, since 2006, the lowest area temperature reading was minus 19 degrees in 2014. The highest temperature reading was 102 degrees in 2012.

The greatest precipitation recorded was 54.86 inches in 2011; the smallest, 34.19 in 2014.

The greatest amount of snowfall was 59.7 inches in 2014; the lowest 11.9 in 2006.