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Springtime for America in February

posted by cmn32480 on Monday February 20 2017, @03:21PM   
from the spring-has-sprung dept.

butthurt writes:

The Washington Post reports that the "lower 48" states of the USA are enjoying spring-like weather. It quotes a meteorologist as saying 1495 record high temperatures have been reached during the month of February (as against 10 record lows); among them:

• Magnum, Okla., hit 99 degrees [Fahrenheit, 37.2° Celsius] on Feb. 11 — tying the state record for hottest winter temperature ever recorded. Yet it occurred two weeks earlier than the record it matched from Feb. 24, 1918, set in the town of Arapaho.
• Denver hit 80 degrees [Fahrenheit, 26.7° Celsius] Feb. 10 — its warmest February temperature on record dating back to 1872.
• Norfolk hit 82 degrees [Fahrenheit, 27.8° Celsius] Feb. 12, tying its warmest February temperature on record dating back to 1874.

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[Ed Note: it is actually Mangum, OK, not Magnum. The original WaPo article is incorrect.]

Original Submission

• Re:History repeating? (Score: 3, Informative) by butthurt on Tuesday February 21 2017, @03:14AM

  by butthurt (6141) on Tuesday February 21 2017, @03:14AM (#469552) Journal

  > There was a mention of records going back that far but they didn't say when the matching temperatures occurred.

  In the summary I had put:

  Denver hit 80 degrees [Fahrenheit, 26.7° Celsius] Feb. 10 — its warmest February temperature on record dating back to 1872.

  I can see how it could be read differently, but that does seem to have been the intended meaning.

  Record temperatures for Denver, for each day of February, are shown at:

  http://www.weather.gov/bou/den_records_feb [weather.gov]

  Temperatures of 77 Fahrenheit were reached on 1890-02-04 and 2006-02-28.

  I went to
  http://w2.weather.gov/climate/getclimate_nonjs.php?wfo=bou [weather.gov]

  and after I selected Denver and February 10th, 2017 it told me that the previous record high temperature for that day of February was 71 Fahrenheit, set in 1951:

  THE DENVER CO CLIMATE NORMALS FOR TODAY
                                                    NORMAL RECORD YEAR
    MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE (F) 45 71 1951
    MINIMUM TEMPERATURE (F) 18 -14 1933

  Tthe 80-degree temperature may be seen by selecting February 11th and looking in the "YESTERDAY" section. Hence the highest temperature previously measured in February was 77 degrees Fahrenheit, in 1890 and 2006.

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