2017: warmer and wetter than normal
In a sentence, 2017 weather was warmer and wetter than normal.
Those facts and figures come from Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer. A summery of 2017 and a 10-year record follows. Two charts attached at the bottom of the story provide additional information.
• 2017 was 2.3 degrees above the normal average.
• Precipitation was 5.07 inches above the normal average.
• Hottest day on record: 94 degrees on June 13
• Coldest day on record: -7 on Dec. 27
• Average maximum temperature: 62.1 degrees
• Average minimum temperature: 43.1 degrees
• Average temperature 52.6 degrees (Normal average 50.3 degrees)
• Total precipitation: 42.12 inches (Normal average 37.05 inches)
• Total snow: 18.1 inches
10-year weather records
• Coldest temperature: -19 in 2014
• Hottest temperatures: 102 in 2012
• Most rainfall: 54.86 inches in 2011
• Least rainfall: 29.05 inches in 2016
• Most snowfall: 59.7 inches in 2014
• Least snowfall: 11.9 inches in 2006
Two charts below:
• 2017 weather summary
• December 2017 weather summary with a 10-year annual summary included
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