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Post by srfoskey on Jan 4, 2024 18:56:48 GMT -5
2023 was about 1°F (0.6°C) warmer than the 1991-2020 average, coming in at 16th warmest out of 133 years. Precipitation was within an inch of normal, but since 2021 and 2022 were drier than normal, this year wound up being the wettest since 2020. We had a super wet early July, and then the rain mostly shut off until September. August had quite a few hot and dry days, but it wasn't as bad of a month as July 2022. We had a few nice snowy days in late January and early February, but that was it as far as winter weather goes. Our coldest day of the second half of 2023 came in October. That has never happened outright before, but in late 2020 the coldest high occurred in both October and December. The most impactful weather we had were three tornado threats, one in late February, one in mid April, and one in mid May. A tornado in late February was an EF-2 and passed within a mile of my apartment, and one in May was an EF-1 and passed about a mile and a half from my apartment. I could hear the howling from the February tornado, and the wind from the associated severe thunderstorm made my windows rattle. The one in May knocked out power to my apartment for a couple hours. The February one blocked my commute to work for a few days, and damage from the storm took about six months to clean up. I also saw one inch (2.5 cm) hail one morning around 5. I think we got smaller hail another time as well. This was the worst year for severe weather since I got here in 2016.  Here is the annual weatherbox reposted from the December thread. |
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Post by tompas on Jan 5, 2024 8:41:53 GMT -5
Zagreb 2023 Summary:January: Very mild, very wet (rainy) and without any significant cold. February: Dominated by the high pressure, sunny, mild and calm - a rather comfortable month. March: A fairly comfortable March, not much exciting weather happening in this month though. April: Gaypril was colder than avg, felt chilly, rainy and cloudy. Not much warmer than March. May: Just when I thought that the bad Gaypril weather was over, May-Gay ensued. Gay had worse weather than Gaypril, cloudy, rainy af and boring, just gay. June: June was dotted with T-storms and fairly humid, ended up being near average in terms of temperatures. Surprisingly dry too, must be that local downpours of these T-storms missed the station. July: Very humid month, with great T-storm activity. Zagreb had the strongest storm on record on July 19th, with strong winds and lightning, causing floods of the streets and houses, with some casualties unfortunately. The only summer month that was somewhat warmer than average August: Cold start of August with a good amount of rain. The second half brought the warmer and drier weather, in the end making this month about average temp-wise. September: Great month, extended summer weather into the fall with plenty of sun. Ended up being the 2nd warmest September on record. October: Another great month, Indian summer for the first half of the month. Most of the month felt like May, warm and sunny. The warmest October on record. November: A fairly decent November, with a rather wet first half, and with decent sun and some fog as per usual. December: Colder and wetter first half, warmer and drier second half with a good amount of sun. Ended up being warmer than average (+2.6C). YEAR: The warmest year on record (+1.5 C) surpassing 2022 (13.2 C), the 2nd wettest year on record (+346.1 mm) and with decent sun surplus (+226 h). The most warmth surplus came from winter and fall (the warmest fall for the country on record), spring was bang on average and summer was a bit warmer than average.
Here is the summary for Split, our 2nd biggest city:
Anomalies: High: 21.1 C (+0.9)
Mean: 17.9 C (+1.0 C)
Low: 15.0 C (+ 1.2 C)
Precip: 965.8 mm (+165.2 mm)
Sun: 2686 h (-13h)
The 2nd warmest year on record, wetter with sunshine hours near average.
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Post by Steelernation on Jan 5, 2024 17:12:16 GMT -5
Upper south: > Lynchburg, VA: (10th warmest, 2nd least snowy year) Charleston, WV: (5th warmest, 2nd least snowy year) Cumberland, MD:  Bluefield, WV:  |
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Post by ral31 on Jan 6, 2024 9:43:35 GMT -5
Tied 1921 for the warmest year on record. Warmest summer on record by 1.2F. Only month with below average temps was April. Set all time record high in August with max of 110F reached twice. Didn't make the top 10 driest years, but was close. I hope we never get another month even close to this past August.  RECORDS TIED/BROKEN IN 2023 (numerous daily records in August)
MON DATE RECORD VALUE
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JAN 2 HI MIN 71 #
3 HI MAX 80
FEB 8 PRECIP 2.42
23 HI MIN 69 (TIE)
25 HI MAX 83 (TIE)
MAR 1 HI MIN 68
2 HI MIN 71
APR 4 HI MIN 72
MAY NONE
JUN 18 HI MIN 81 @
19 HI MIN 79 (TIE)
27 HI MIN 77 (TIE)
30 HI MIN 80 (TIE)
JUL 2 HI MIN 79
12 HI MIN 80
14 HI MIN 79
15 HI MIN 80
22 HI MIN 79
30 HI MAX 104 (TIE)
31 HI MIN 78 (TIE)
31 HI MAX 103 (TIE)
AUG 1 HI MAX 105 (TIE)
2 HI MIN 80
3 HI MIN 80 (TIE)
4 HI MIN 81
4 HI MAX 106
5 HI MIN 81
5 HI MAX 105
6 HI MIN 82
6 HI MAX 103
7 HI MIN 82
7 HI MAX 104 (TIE)
8 HI MIN 81
9 HI MIN 80
10 HI MIN 82
10 HI MAX 105 (TIE)
11 HI MIN 82
11 HI MAX 107
12 HI MIN 81
12 HI MAX 106
13 HI MIN 82
13 HI MAX 107
14 HI MAX 108
15 HI MIN 79 (TIE)
18 HI MAX 106 (TIE)
19 HI MIN 79
19 HI MAX 110 [NEW WARMEST DAY EVER ON RECORD]
20 HI MIN 77 (TIE)
20 HI MAX 109
21 HI MIN 80
21 HI MAX 105
22 HI MIN 78
22 HI MAX 105
23 HI MIN 80
23 HI MAX 108
24 HI MIN 81
24 HI MAX 110 [TIED WARMEST DAY EVER ON RECORD]
25 HI MIN 80
25 HI MAX 105
26 HI MAX 108
27 HI MIN 78 (TIE)
27 HI MAX 109
28 HI MIN 77 (TIE)
SEP 5 HI MIN 77
6 HI MIN 77
7 HI MIN 78
23 HI MAX 100
24 HI MIN 78 (TIE)
26 HI MAX 98 (TIE)
27 HI MAX 99 (TIE)
30 HI MAX 98
OCT 1 HI MAX 97 (TIE)
4 HI MAX 94 (TIE)
20 HI MAX 94
21 HI MAX 91 (TIE)
27 HI MIN 73
29 HI MAX 87 (TIE)
NOV 2 LO MIN 27
7 HI MAX 88 (TIE) [TIED FOR 2ND WARMEST NOV DAY ON RECORD]
DEC NONE
@ SET ALL-TIME RECORD FOR MONTH
# TIED ALL-TIME RECORD FOR MONTH
2023 TOP TENS
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7TH WARMEST JANUARY
8TH WARMEST WINTER (TIE)
6TH WARMEST FIRST HALF (TIE)
3RD WARMEST JULY (TIE)
WARMEST AUGUST
DRIEST AUGUST
WARMEST SUMMER
8TH DRIEST SUMMER (TIE)
WARMEST SEPTEMBER
WARMEST SECOND HALF
3RD DRIEST SECOND HALF
WARMEST YEAR (TIE)
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Post by Steelernation on Jan 7, 2024 0:31:29 GMT -5
Northeast: > New York, NY: (5th warmest, 4th wettest, LEAST SNOWY year) Hartford, CT: (2nd warmest, 3rd wettest, 4th least snowy year) Albany, NY: (WARMEST, 3rd wettest year) Rochester, NY: (6th warmest year, least snowy since 1952) Burlington, VT: (WARMEST, 7th wettest year) Caribou, ME: (3rd warmest year) Mount Washington, NH:  |
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Post by Milwaukee Mass Murderer on Jan 7, 2024 23:44:38 GMT -5
2023 was the warmest on record, beating 2012 by 0.3F. It was not a good year to be a cold lover. Summer wasn't bad except for the 101F day in August and a few hot days in early September. Only 9 days reached 90F and 6 of those were 90 or 91. Winter was much warmer than normal, and the other seasons were average or above. Lots of above-average lows, the lamest way to set temperature records. More detailed summary coming later, maybe, I haven't started. This was also borderline Dfa/Cfa for the year with the coldest month average only 31.7F/-0.2C. Cfa years have happened with the -3C isotherm, but never with 0C.
 The same summary for Madison. 3rd warmest on record there despite the same deviation (+2.9F). |
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Post by Steelernation on Jan 8, 2024 2:00:40 GMT -5
Midwest: > Springfield, MO: (5th warmest year) Springfield, IL: (5th least snowy year) Grand Rapids, MI: (7th warmest year) Des Moines, IA: (6th warmest year) Minneapolis, MN: (3rd warmest year) Embarrass, MN:  Grand Marais, MN:  |
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Post by Steelernation on Jan 8, 2024 23:23:30 GMT -5
South central: > Shreveport, LA: (WARMEST year on record) Fort Smith, AR: (2nd warmest year) Tulsa, OK: (T-2nd least snowy year) |
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Post by Kaleetan on Jan 9, 2024 12:44:28 GMT -5
Portage, WI for 2023 Attachments:
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Post by Steelernation on Jan 9, 2024 17:01:29 GMT -5
Texas: > McAllen: (T-5th warmest year) Austin: (WARMEST year on record) Port Arthur: (WARMEST year on record) Wichita Falls: (8th warmest year) Rio Grande Village:  Midland: (4th warmest, 7th driest year) Alpine:  Amarillo: (5th warmest, 6th least snowy year) |
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Post by St. Middleway on Jan 10, 2024 9:43:56 GMT -5
Now with updated (provisional) sun hours.  |
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Post by Steelernation on Jan 10, 2024 14:31:36 GMT -5
Kansas and Nebraska: > Wichita, KS:  Dodge City, KS:  Goodland, KS:  Scottsbluff, NE: (6th wettest year) North Platte, NE:  Lincoln: (8th warmest year) |
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Post by Steelernation on Jan 11, 2024 15:56:50 GMT -5
North and South Dakota: > Cottonwood, SD: (7th snowiest year) Pierre, SD: (9th snowiest year) Rapid City, SD:  Lead, SD:  Bismarck, ND:  Grand Forks, SD:  |
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Post by CRISPR on Jan 12, 2024 18:03:32 GMT -5
For Hong Kong in 2023:One of the warmest years in Fragrant Harbour on record (though I have only been there twice). It was 1ºC above the normal, with 343.3 mm surplus (literally in just 2 months) and marginally sunnier than normal (+36.2 hr). I am just realising how warm those damn nights are in HK! January- A relatively warm and dry month; thanks to a weaker northeast monsoon. A fair amount of cold drizzle intermixed with periods of thin clouds and strong fog (visibility dropped to 100 m on the 13th). February- Significantly warmer, sunnier and drier than usual; already technically considered a 'tropical month.' Misty, mild and cloudy periods alternate with sunny and warm periods. March- A partly (rather than mostly) cloudy, warm month; and already getting humid! Almost all rainfall was recorded after the 25th (precursor to the monsoon). April- Slightly warmer and cloudier than normal; with lots of showers towards the end of the month. Still only half as much precipitation as the normal (153 mm). May- Still drier than usual, with plenty of squally thunderstorms and showers. Summer has begun here. June- Thunderstorm warnings almost every day, and was warmer than normal. One heavy rainfall period between the 13th and 17th. July- Solidly warmer and drier than average, due a strong subtropical ridge reducing rainfall and slightly increasing sunshine. August- Very similar to July; but was also fairly cloudy and foggy on several days. September- Strongly affected by Category 2 Typhoon Saola (1st and 2nd) and torrential rainfall from a trough (7-8th); bringing over 1 metre of rainfall into the city despite a dry end (21st to 31st). October- Much cloudier and wetter than usual, and was impacted by Typhool Koinu on the 8th. The 9th recorded 369.7 mm, the highest daily rainfall on record for October. November- Warmer, sunnier and drier than normal; thanks to a weaker northeastern monsoon. Good weather conditions for tourism, especially between the 19th to 28th. December- Warmer, cloudier and drier than normal; with significant influence from the Siberian High causing frequent cloud cover and drizzle. 
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Post by Steelernation on Jan 13, 2024 2:24:05 GMT -5
Wyoming: Very wet year for many places, some got over 70 thunderstorms this year. > Sheridan: (5th wettest year) Cheyenne: (8th wettest year) Casper: (5th snowiest year) Basin: (3rd wettest year) Rock Springs:  Laramie:  Pinedale: (2nd wettest year) Afton: (WETTEST year on record) Lamar Ranger Station: (4th wettest year) |
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Post by Steelernation on Jan 13, 2024 22:58:32 GMT -5
Montana: > Billings:  Bozeman:  Missoula: (8th warmest year) West Glacier: (6th warmest, 3rd driest, 3rd least snowy year) Glasgow: (8th warmest year) Cut Bank: (4th warmest year) |
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Post by Steelernation on Jan 14, 2024 15:46:52 GMT -5
Idaho: > Boise: (6th warmest year) Pocatello: (5th snowiest year) Moscow:  |
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Post by Steelernation on Jan 15, 2024 16:29:13 GMT -5
Colorado: > Las Animas:  Denver:  Walsenburg:  Boulder:  Rye: AJ1013  Evergreen:  Grand Junction:  Alamosa:  Ridgway:  Ouray:  Steamboat Springs:  Aspen:  Crested Butte:  Dillon:  Antero Reservoir:  Climax:  |
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Post by AJ1013 on Jan 15, 2024 16:56:12 GMT -5
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Post by Cheeseman on Jan 16, 2024 8:29:43 GMT -5
 January and December were both top 10 warmest! Spring and summer very average in terms of temps, autumn warmer again. December was just weird, with an average low warmer than that of November. Nasty crummer drought as well; May and June were both top 10 driest, and the only reason July looks wet was because of a couple of big rain events. Between the absurdly warm winter and the absurdly dry May and June, 2023 was Madison's first Csa year on record!  3rd warmest year on record overall, behind only 1931 and 2012. |
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3rd warmest year on record overall, behind only 1931 and 2012.