Bring On February
This past week was even more uneventful in the snowfall department then last week. One day had snow but only a tenth of an inch accumulated. Temperatures remained below average making this January one of the coldest January's on record. More on the chilly January below. (OSNW3 January Observations)
(Temp Comparison 2008 / 2009 | Jan 1 - 31)
Max temp: 26.0 / 20.2 / -5.8
Min temp: 12.3 / 4.2 / -8.1
(January 2009 Precipitation)
2009 Monthly Total
Precip.. 0.59"
Snow.... 5.5"
Oshkosh Average
Precip.. 1.35"
Snow.... 12.4"
Departure
Precip.. (0.76")
Snow.... (6.9")
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Top 15 Coldest January Across Much of Area
Average temperatures across many parts of north-central and northeast Wisconsin for January were about 5 to 8 degrees below normal. This made January 2009 one of the top 15 coldest in about 100 years of weather records. Click here for additional information from the NWS GRB.
Here at OSNW3 it was the same story. This January was the coldest of the three that have been recorded. See graph below. On Jan 16 the min temp bottomed out at -13.2 which is now an all-time low for OSNW3. (Monthly Extremes)
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January Snowfall
January 2009 is weak in comparison to the previous two. However, in 2009 we saw more measurable snowfalls than in any other (Days with Measurable Snowfall). One noticeable attribute of January at OSNW3 is that it doesn't seem to snow much the first week of the month.
(OSNW3 Snowfall Comparison - January)
(OSNW3 Snowfall Comparison Through January)
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Door County, WI
Our trip to DC started out towards a destination suggested from Nathan (Northern Wisconsin Weather), Cave Point County Park. It had snowed earlier that morning and when we arrived it was windy with a slight chill in the air. Lake Michigan was not frozen, which if it were, would have allowed us to explore the sea caves. Instead, the Lake was all wound up which provided some great wave action. Our site seeing trip brought us to other sites, such as the town of Northport where the ferry to Washington Island docks and the Ellison Bay Bluff.
(Cave Point County Park - Jan 31, 2009)
More photos and videos can be found here.
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Front Of House
Where's the new snow?! :)
(FOH - Feb 1, 2009)
(Temp Comparison 2008 / 2009 | Jan 1 - 31)
Max temp: 26.0 / 20.2 / -5.8
Min temp: 12.3 / 4.2 / -8.1
(January 2009 Precipitation)
2009 Monthly Total
Precip.. 0.59"
Snow.... 5.5"
Oshkosh Average
Precip.. 1.35"
Snow.... 12.4"
Departure
Precip.. (0.76")
Snow.... (6.9")
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Top 15 Coldest January Across Much of Area
Average temperatures across many parts of north-central and northeast Wisconsin for January were about 5 to 8 degrees below normal. This made January 2009 one of the top 15 coldest in about 100 years of weather records. Click here for additional information from the NWS GRB.
Here at OSNW3 it was the same story. This January was the coldest of the three that have been recorded. See graph below. On Jan 16 the min temp bottomed out at -13.2 which is now an all-time low for OSNW3. (Monthly Extremes)
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January Snowfall
January 2009 is weak in comparison to the previous two. However, in 2009 we saw more measurable snowfalls than in any other (Days with Measurable Snowfall). One noticeable attribute of January at OSNW3 is that it doesn't seem to snow much the first week of the month.
(OSNW3 Snowfall Comparison - January)
(OSNW3 Snowfall Comparison Through January)
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Door County, WI
Our trip to DC started out towards a destination suggested from Nathan (Northern Wisconsin Weather), Cave Point County Park. It had snowed earlier that morning and when we arrived it was windy with a slight chill in the air. Lake Michigan was not frozen, which if it were, would have allowed us to explore the sea caves. Instead, the Lake was all wound up which provided some great wave action. Our site seeing trip brought us to other sites, such as the town of Northport where the ferry to Washington Island docks and the Ellison Bay Bluff.
(Cave Point County Park - Jan 31, 2009)
More photos and videos can be found here.
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Front Of House
Where's the new snow?! :)
(FOH - Feb 1, 2009)
You posted a question at WX Ranger NW about averages for January here in my “neck of the woods.” We’ve only lived here for four years. So I don’t have much data to compare. Talking with some of the folks in town who have been here for a life time, this January has been one for the records. A few have stated that it is the worst they have seen since 1969. It is the coldest and snowiest we have had since we moved on to the property in March of 2005.
ReplyDeleteBob
I'll search around your NWS office website to get actual numbers. Thanks for the local insight, however. 1969 is a long time ago (in human terms, of course).
ReplyDeleteBoy, you sure had lots of snow last year.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny that you commented about the lack of precip during the first week of January, because as I was fishing through my last three years of data, I was noticing the same trend for us.
WxWatcher, yes, last Winter was awesome!! Hopefully the active pattern that is predicted brings us snow instead of rain. Without looking, it seems this Winter has had measurable snow on the ground the entire time and if I remember correctly last year we had a mid Winter thaw steal all our snow pack...
ReplyDeleteTime to investigate! Thanks!
Interesting trends for the beginning of January. Curious if Mother Nature takes the first week of the New Year off in the Midwest. ;)
I hope it's warmer this month! great photo of door county! I like the was the waves look against the icy shoreline! I guess your hoping for a active February right?
ReplyDeleteIndeed I am D. I hope the warm spell doesn't last very long. But, whatever is thrown at us I will take...
ReplyDeleteIt was a nice surprise to be greeted with waves and wind... and a fresh coating of light snow last Saturday in Door County. The videos only do it 3/4 justice.
OSNW3,
ReplyDeleteWhen you calculate "days with sun", what is your operational definition of a day with sun?
WxWatcher, I try to keep it simple. Cloud cover. Any period during the "daytime" that is not "overcast" or "cloudy" constitutes as a "Day With Sun". I make sure to document the sky conditions each day in the daily descriptions. It's not an exact science by any means. It's just something fun, for me, to track and document. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for asking!
How do you generate those nifty reports? I like the look – clean and simple.
ReplyDeleteMy guess is one would have to dig deep to find specific historic data on my location. I would guess the data on the NWS site is for the Spokane area or Eastern Washington and the North Idaho only. I have been looking at other sites for my location and it just isn’t there – we are rural here on the property though the local small towns may have something. I’m going to check with the local newspaper.
Bob
WX Ranger NW
Thanks for the kind words, Bob!
ReplyDeleteI understand the "rural area, no data" thing. I live in a small city with a small amount of resources for climate data. Fortunately Oshkosh has an official NWS observer... since 1893! I am thinking a local farmer may have climate data documented, and the newspaper is a great place to continue the investigation. Good luck, and if you can, please share your findings!
So, how do you generate those great looking data sets? Excel or...
ReplyDeleteBob
Bob, yes... Excel. Bill Gates runs my computing life.
ReplyDeleteI apologize for not answering the question in the previous comment.
Looks like you should get ready for some melting...
ReplyDeleteWow, what Bob said... coldest and snowiest... eww...
Hey, your comments section went kaboom!
ReplyDeleteDew, if the melting of the snow brings weather, I'll take it. We've had a solid snowpack the entire Winter so far, which has been nice... right now I just want some weather. :) I know you're feelin' the SDS.
ReplyDeleteHow do you make the graphs?
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