interesting monthly summaries from the past

Speaking of warmth in April, here are 2007 and 2011 in Paris-Orly:

My contribution today.
May 2013, Namsos Airport.
About 130 km north of Trondheim as the crow flies.
Freezing lows early, later new all-time high for May for the region

And that day at Røros is still the coldest low ever recorded in Norway outside Finnmark Province with Karasjok's national all-time low.

January 1950. Coldest month on record in Vancouver. Average high/low of -2.9C/-9.7C. 94cm of snow and 44.2mm of rain for monthly precip total of 138.2mm.

juuka niemelä, north karelia, jan 1987. a monthly mean of -24.5C.

denver jan 2015



i'd love to experience a month like that.

Holy shit, just realized how bad February 2010 was. Look at this horror show:



Highest temp of 37 (3 C), lowest high of 22 (-5 C). This might just be worse than this March, although being March this year is probably worse. It was definitely worse then February 2015 though. Thank god I don’t remember it.

I've linked this many times before, but that was before I knew about this thread, so I'll throw it in here, as it's the most interesting thing I have to show.

The February 2015. So insane it gets a definite article.

Coldest February on record in the area.
Snow on the ground every single day of the month (last day with snow depth of 0: 31 January, next is sometime in mid-March).
Only 6 days recorded 0 precipitation.
Only 4 days with maxes above freezing, all during the first half of the month. (ice streak of 19 days, 12 February-2 March).
Total snowfall 24.9 inches, 10 inches above average.

Rating: A+


Edit: I forgot to add the equally insane, but in the opposite direction, February 2017 in Missouri.

More 70F+ days (7) than ice days (2), including one day of 79F which probably reached 80 in some areas.
Only 2 days with recorded precipitation, 0.06in of rain on the 20th and a trace (flurries, I remember it was blowing around oddly on the ground, very windy) of snow on the 24th.
The total monthly precipitation, therefore, was 0.06 inches, which is 0.04% of average (not a typo).
This makes it, as far as I know, the second-driest February on record, only after 2006 (0.04 inches), however, 2006 had 7 precipitation events (3 rain, 4 snow including an accumulating snowfall of 0.5 inches) to 2017's 2, and furthermore was a far colder month.

Rating: F, with the snow flurries saving it from an F-.

2nd-warmest (was #1 warmest until 2015 was warmer) and 3rd-least-snowy (1923 and 1931 had only a trace) December on record in northeast Ohio
**note also that the only "trace" that was actually visible as falling snow was on the 30th, a brief snow shower. All the others were probably one single snowflake at the airport.

December 2014