Happy New Year! Data released from the National Weather Service this morning states that Rockford saw its 14th warmest December! The average temperature of December 2006 was 31.3°. A typical December should see an average temperature of 24.4°. While we started the month with very bitter, cold temperatures (following a record-breaking snow) we turned very mild for the latter half of the month. Let's think about the 31.3° temperature for just a moment! That's more like the December temperature of Kansas City, Indianapolis, and Dayton, Ohio!For the entire calendar year of 2006, the average temperature in Rockford was 50.38°. The year was 2.68° warmer than usual. To get more information on other cities' average climates, check out climate-zone.com.
When it comes to precipitation, 2006 was a pretty good year! Coming off of 2005's major drought, it was just what the doctor ordered. 38.14 inches of precipitation fell over Rockford during 2006. That yields a surplus of 1.86 inches.While December 1st's major snowstorm brought tears of joy to the faces of snowmobilers, it wasn't a very snowy year. Taking into account the 10.7 inches we got on just one day, the total for the year was just 24.10 inches. In a normal year Rockford sees 35.20" of snow.
5 comments:
The relatively warm weather encouraged me to put away our outdood Christmas decorations.
No one should still have them up at the end of January!
I think this is due to the fact that we are in a slight El Nino.
Another thing! With it being this warm for much of December (and presumably January too) winter will seem very short when March and April come along. -ERIC
1 month down, 1 month closer to spring. Eric, you might have provided this link in the past but I find it very helpful: http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/predictions/30day/
If you click around you can view different timeframes. So far everything has a 30-50 percent chance of jan/feb/mar being above average.
Doug
Doug: NOAA's thinking about a strong El Nino! It would mean "warm and dry." The pattern breaks down just a bit for next week, but the long term outlook isn't good for snowlovers! -ERIC
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