March 2019 ended up much cooler and drier across eastern Kentucky. Jackson totaled 2.40" of
precipitation, almost one and three quarters inches below normal. London totaled 2.50" and was over an
inch and a half drier. It was the 8th driest March at Jackson and 13th driest at London. Both Jackson and
London were around three degrees cooler than normal. Jackson tied for the 11th coolest March while March
2019 tied for the 21st coolest March at London. Also of note, the Jackson Weather Office received 2.3 inches of
snowfall which brings the seasonal snowfall total up to 10.4 inches. Jackson's snow season normal is 23.5 inches.
The 2018-19 snow season is currently the 5th least snowiest at Jackson.
Here are the March climate summaries and March Local Climatological Data reports for Jackson and London:
Jackson Kentucky data:
...THE JACKSON KY CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH 2019... CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1981 TO 2010 CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1981 TO 2019 WEATHER OBSERVED NORMAL DEPART LAST YEAR`S VALUE DATE(S) VALUE FROM VALUE DATE(S) NORMAL ................................................................ TEMPERATURE (F) RECORD HIGH 87 03/28/1989 LOW 7 03/09/1996 HIGHEST 79 03/30 79 0 76 03/17 LOWEST 13 03/06 18 -5 23 03/14 03/05 AVG. MAXIMUM 54.7 57.5 -2.8 53.3 AVG. MINIMUM 34.4 37.3 -2.9 34.1 MEAN 44.5 47.4 -2.9 43.7 DAYS MAX >= 90 0 0.0 0.0 0 DAYS MAX <= 32 2 0.6 1.4 0 DAYS MIN <= 32 14 10.8 3.2 19 DAYS MIN <= 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 PRECIPITATION (INCHES) RECORD MAXIMUM 11.78 1994 MINIMUM 1.47 2003 TOTALS 2.40 4.12 -1.72 6.97 DAILY AVG. 0.08 0.13 -0.05 0.22 DAYS >= .01 9 14.0 -5.0 20 DAYS >= .10 5 8.5 -3.5 12 DAYS >= .50 1 2.7 -1.7 5 DAYS >= 1.00 0 0.9 -0.9 3 GREATEST 24 HR. TOTAL 0.90 03/09 TO 03/09 1.80 SNOWFALL (INCHES) RECORDS TOTAL 21.9 1993 TOTALS 2.3 2.9 -0.6 11.4 SINCE 7/1 10.4 22.5 -12.1 21.8 SNOWDEPTH AVG. 0 MM MM 0 DAYS >= 1.0 1 0.7 0.3 3 GREATEST SNOW DEPTH 1 03/08 4 24 HR TOTAL 1.6 03/08 TO 03/08 5.2 DEGREE_DAYS HEATING TOTAL 626 553 73 652 SINCE 7/1 3776 3853 -77 3754 COOLING TOTAL 0 7 -7 0 SINCE 1/1 0 7 -7 12 ................................................................. WIND (MPH) AVERAGE WIND SPEED 5.0 HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 26/280 DATE 03/30 HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 44/260 DATE 03/30 SKY COVER POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.50 NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 12 NUMBER OF DAYS PC 11 NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 7 AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 58 WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH THUNDERSTORM 2 MIXED PRECIP 0 HEAVY RAIN 2 RAIN 4 LIGHT RAIN 13 FREEZING RAIN 0 LT FREEZING RAIN 0 HAIL 0 HEAVY SNOW 0 SNOW 1 LIGHT SNOW 6 SLEET 0 FOG 11 FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE 4 HAZE 2 - INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS. R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED. MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING. T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT. $$
PRELIMINARY LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA (WS FORM: F-6) STATION: JACKSON KY MONTH: MARCH YEAR: 2019 LATITUDE: 37 35 N LONGITUDE: 83 19 W TEMPERATURE IN F: :PCPN: SNOW: WIND :SUNSHINE: SKY :PK WND ================================================================================ 1 2 3 4 5 6A 6B 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 12Z AVG MX 2MIN DY MAX MIN AVG DEP HDD CDD WTR SNW DPTH SPD SPD DIR MIN PSBL S-S WX SPD DR ================================================================================ 1 37 31 34 -9 31 0 0.02 0.0 0 2.5 7 50 M M 10 12 11 60 2 40 35 38 -5 27 0 T 0.0 0 2.3 9 290 M M 10 12 13 280 3 38 28 33 -10 32 0 0.42 0.4 0 4.3 15 320 M M 10 1 21 300 4 29 18 24 -20 41 0 T T T 6.4 14 270 M M 7 1 21 300 5 32 13 23 -21 42 0 T 0.3 0 8.6 17 260 M M 4 1 32 300 6 35 13 24 -20 41 0 T T T 6.2 15 320 M M 2 24 340 7 38 23 31 -13 34 0 T T 0 1.3 9 280 M M 6 12 270 8 35 30 33 -12 32 0 0.39 1.6 1 2.9 6 50 M M 10 12 12 150 9 60 35 48 3 17 0 0.90 0.0 0 5.5 17 260 M M 10 123 39 200 10 67 49 58 13 7 0 0.00 0.0 0 8.2 17 250 M M 0 32 270 11 57 40 49 3 16 0 0.00 0.0 0 3.5 9 320 M M 6 17 360 12 54 33 44 -2 21 0 0.00 0.0 0 2.3 7 320 M M 0 11 40 13 75 42 59 13 6 0 T 0.0 0 3.5 9 150 M M 2 15 140 14 75 55 65 18 0 0 0.04 0.0 0 9.4 21 190 M M 4 8 41 190 15 64 38 51 4 14 0 T 0.0 0 9.9 22 260 M M 7 8 38 260 16 54 31 43 -4 22 0 0.00 0.0 0 5.6 14 300 M M 1 25 300 17 56 31 44 -4 21 0 0.00 0.0 0 4.1 16 280 M M 3 27 280 18 49 31 40 -8 25 0 0.00 0.0 0 4.0 12 270 M M 4 20 330 19 55 31 43 -5 22 0 0.00 0.0 0 2.3 8 330 M M 0 12 330 20 64 33 49 0 16 0 0.00 0.0 0 3.1 7 180 M M M 18 160 21 52 40 46 -3 19 0 0.04 0.0 0 5.7 20 290 M M 10 13 38 300 22 55 38 47 -2 18 0 0.00 0.0 0 9.0 23 300 M M 7 38 290 23 60 31 46 -4 19 0 0.00 0.0 0 2.6 8 310 M M 0 14 330 24 72 41 57 7 8 0 T 0.0 0 3.9 14 230 M M 3 23 240 25 58 40 49 -1 16 0 0.20 0.0 0 3.9 12 50 M M 9 1 23 50 26 53 29 41 -10 24 0 0.00 0.0 0 4.9 10 40 M M 2 17 40 27 66 33 50 -1 15 0 0.00 0.0 0 3.4 9 190 M M 0 14 170 28 73 45 59 8 6 0 0.00 0.0 0 5.3 14 260 M M 1 22 180 29 69 55 62 10 3 0 T 0.0 0 4.0 12 220 M M 7 20 220 30 79 45 62 10 3 0 0.38 0.0 0 7.4 26 280 M M 6 1 44 260 31 45 28 37 -15 28 0 0.01 T 0 8.2 20 300 M M 6 1 35 270 ================================================================================ SM 1696 1065 626 0 2.40 2.3 154.2 M 147 ================================================================================ AV 54.7 34.4 5.0 FASTST M M 5 MAX(MPH) MISC ----> # 26 280 # 44 260 ================================================================================ NOTES: # LAST OF SEVERAL OCCURRENCES COLUMN 17 PEAK WIND IN M.P.H. PRELIMINARY LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA (WS FORM: F-6) , PAGE 2 STATION: JACKSON KY MONTH: MARCH YEAR: 2019 LATITUDE: 37 35 N LONGITUDE: 83 19 W [TEMPERATURE DATA] [PRECIPITATION DATA] SYMBOLS USED IN COLUMN 16 AVERAGE MONTHLY: 44.5 TOTAL FOR MONTH: 2.40 1 = FOG OR MIST DPTR FM NORMAL: -2.9 DPTR FM NORMAL: -1.72 2 = FOG REDUCING VISIBILITY HIGHEST: 79 ON 30 GRTST 24HR 0.90 ON 9- 9 TO 1/4 MILE OR LESS LOWEST: 13 ON 6, 5 3 = THUNDER SNOW, ICE PELLETS, HAIL 4 = ICE PELLETS TOTAL MONTH: 2.3 INCHES 5 = HAIL GRTST 24HR 1.6 ON 8- 8 6 = FREEZING RAIN OR DRIZZLE GRTST DEPTH: 1 ON 8 7 = DUSTSTORM OR SANDSTORM: VSBY 1/2 MILE OR LESS 8 = SMOKE OR HAZE [NO. OF DAYS WITH] [WEATHER - DAYS WITH] 9 = BLOWING SNOW X = TORNADO MAX 32 OR BELOW: 2 0.01 INCH OR MORE: 9 MAX 90 OR ABOVE: 0 0.10 INCH OR MORE: 5 MIN 32 OR BELOW: 14 0.50 INCH OR MORE: 1 MIN 0 OR BELOW: 0 1.00 INCH OR MORE: 0 [HDD (BASE 65) ] TOTAL THIS MO. 626 CLEAR (SCALE 0-3) 12 DPTR FM NORMAL 73 PTCLDY (SCALE 4-7) 11 TOTAL FM JUL 1 3776 CLOUDY (SCALE 8-10) 7 DPTR FM NORMAL -77 [CDD (BASE 65) ] TOTAL THIS MO. 0 DPTR FM NORMAL -7 [PRESSURE DATA] TOTAL FM JAN 1 0 HIGHEST SLP 30.47 ON 19 DPTR FM NORMAL -7 LOWEST SLP 29.63 ON 30 [REMARKS] #FINAL-03-19#
London Kentucky data:
...THE LONDON KY CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH 2019... CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1981 TO 2010 CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1954 TO 2019 WEATHER OBSERVED NORMAL DEPART LAST YEAR`S VALUE DATE(S) VALUE FROM VALUE DATE(S) NORMAL ................................................................ TEMPERATURE (F) RECORD HIGH 87 03/25/2007 LOW -12 03/03/1980 HIGHEST 76 03/30 MM MM 78 03/17 LOWEST 13 03/05 MM MM 21 03/09 AVG. MAXIMUM 55.0 58.7 -3.7 54.8 AVG. MINIMUM 33.4 36.1 -2.7 35.2 MEAN 44.2 47.4 -3.2 45.0 DAYS MAX >= 90 0 0.0 0.0 0 DAYS MAX <= 32 2 0.3 1.7 0 DAYS MIN <= 32 17 11.4 5.6 14 DAYS MIN <= 0 0 0.0 0.0 0 PRECIPITATION (INCHES) RECORD MAXIMUM 9.87 1994 MINIMUM 1.27 1969 TOTALS 2.50 4.05 -1.55 4.70 DAILY AVG. 0.08 0.13 -0.05 0.15 DAYS >= .01 7 12.9 -5.9 17 DAYS >= .10 7 8.0 -1.0 8 DAYS >= .50 2 2.6 -0.6 4 DAYS >= 1.00 0 0.7 -0.7 2 GREATEST 24 HR. TOTAL 0.96 03/09 TO 03/09 1.39 SNOWFALL (INCHES) RECORDS TOTAL 31.0 1960 TOTALS MM 0.6 MM MM SINCE 7/1 MM 9.3 MM MM SNOWDEPTH AVG. MM MM MM MM DAYS >= 1.0 MM 0.4 MM 0 GREATEST SNOW DEPTH MM MM 24 HR TOTAL MM MM DEGREE_DAYS HEATING TOTAL 636 549 87 612 SINCE 7/1 3780 3825 -45 3704 COOLING TOTAL 0 3 -3 0 SINCE 1/1 0 3 -3 8 ................................................................. WIND (MPH) AVERAGE WIND SPEED 6.5 HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 30/190 DATE 03/14 HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 44/180 DATE 03/09 SKY COVER POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.50 NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 14 NUMBER OF DAYS PC 7 NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 9 AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 66 WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH THUNDERSTORM 3 MIXED PRECIP 0 HEAVY RAIN 3 RAIN 6 LIGHT RAIN 11 FREEZING RAIN 0 LT FREEZING RAIN 0 HAIL 0 HEAVY SNOW 0 SNOW 0 LIGHT SNOW 3 SLEET 0 FOG 12 FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE 0 HAZE 0 - INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS. R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED. MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING. T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT. $$
PRELIMINARY LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA (WS FORM: F-6) STATION: LONDON KY MONTH: MARCH YEAR: 2019 LATITUDE: 37 4 N LONGITUDE: 84 5 W TEMPERATURE IN F: :PCPN: SNOW: WIND :SUNSHINE: SKY :PK WND ================================================================================ 1 2 3 4 5 6A 6B 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 12Z AVG MX 2MIN DY MAX MIN AVG DEP HDD CDD WTR SNW DPTH SPD SPD DIR MIN PSBL S-S WX SPD DR ================================================================================ 1 40 35 38 -5 27 0 T M M 4.6 10 10 M M 10 1 13 40 2 42 37 40 -4 25 0 0.00 M M 4.6 9 330 M M 10 1 13 340 3 40 29 35 -9 30 0 T M M 6.6 16 350 M M 10 1 23 360 4 32 20 26 -18 39 0 T M M 9.2 16 350 M M 7 1 22 270 5 32 13 23 -21 42 0 0.00 M M 10.2 20 290 M M 2 29 310 6 34 15 25 -20 40 0 0.00 M M 6.6 17 320 M M 3 24 310 7 41 24 33 -12 32 0 0.00 M M 3.6 9 40 M M 8 14 60 8 44 31 38 -7 27 0 0.13 M M 2.1 8 70 M M 10 1 11 100 9 60 38 49 4 16 0 0.96 M M 8.9 29 180 M M 10 13 44 180 10 66 47 57 11 8 0 0.00 M M 10.0 22 270 M M 0 30 230 11 58 42 50 4 15 0 0.00 M M 5.0 13 320 M M 6 18 330 12 55 31 43 -3 22 0 0.00 M M 3.6 10 20 M M 0 14 10 13 70 37 54 8 11 0 0.00 M M 6.1 18 180 M M 1 26 190 14 72 58 65 18 0 0 0.51 M M 15.2 30 190 M M 5 13 43 200 15 65 37 51 4 14 0 0.15 M M 12.2 28 250 M M 4 1 37 250 16 53 29 41 -6 24 0 0.00 M M 4.5 17 310 M M 1 24 310 17 57 26 42 -6 23 0 0.00 M M 5.2 21 280 M M 1 28 280 18 50 31 41 -7 24 0 0.00 M M 5.8 15 330 M M 3 20 330 19 54 25 40 -8 25 0 0.00 M M 2.2 10 50 M M 0 14 50 20 62 30 46 -2 19 0 0.00 M M 2.1 9 220 M M M 12 220 21 54 39 47 -2 18 0 0.15 M M 8.0 29 290 M M 9 13 42 290 22 60 39 50 1 15 0 0.00 M M 10.5 25 290 M M 4 36 270 23 60 28 44 -5 21 0 0.00 M M 1.0 9 50 M M 0 12 40 24 70 32 51 1 14 0 0.00 M M 3.9 17 230 M M 3 25 230 25 58 42 50 0 15 0 0.20 M M 5.4 20 350 M M 9 1 28 360 26 54 32 43 -7 22 0 0.00 M M 9.0 17 20 M M 2 1 24 10 27 64 30 47 -4 18 0 0.00 M M 2.1 12 230 M M 0 20 220 28 71 37 54 3 11 0 0.00 M M 5.1 17 240 M M 0 26 250 29 67 50 59 8 6 0 T M M 4.6 14 200 M M 6 18 210 30 76 41 59 7 6 0 0.40 M M 11.7 26 280 M M 8 1 43 180 31 45 31 38 -14 27 0 T M M 10.8 18 350 M M 5 30 270 ================================================================================ SM 1706 1036 636 0 2.50 M 200.4 M 137 ================================================================================ AV 55.0 33.4 6.5 FASTST M M 5 MAX(MPH) MISC ----> # 30 190 # 44 180 ================================================================================ NOTES: # LAST OF SEVERAL OCCURRENCES COLUMN 17 PEAK WIND IN M.P.H. PRELIMINARY LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA (WS FORM: F-6) , PAGE 2 STATION: LONDON KY MONTH: MARCH YEAR: 2019 LATITUDE: 37 4 N LONGITUDE: 84 5 W [TEMPERATURE DATA] [PRECIPITATION DATA] SYMBOLS USED IN COLUMN 16 AVERAGE MONTHLY: 44.2 TOTAL FOR MONTH: 2.50 1 = FOG OR MIST DPTR FM NORMAL: -3.2 DPTR FM NORMAL: -1.55 2 = FOG REDUCING VISIBILITY HIGHEST: 76 ON 30 GRTST 24HR 0.96 ON 9- 9 TO 1/4 MILE OR LESS LOWEST: 13 ON 5 3 = THUNDER SNOW, ICE PELLETS, HAIL 4 = ICE PELLETS TOTAL MONTH: M 5 = HAIL GRTST 24HR M ON M 6 = FREEZING RAIN OR DRIZZLE GRTST DEPTH: M ON M 7 = DUSTSTORM OR SANDSTORM: VSBY 1/2 MILE OR LESS 8 = SMOKE OR HAZE [NO. OF DAYS WITH] [WEATHER - DAYS WITH] 9 = BLOWING SNOW X = TORNADO MAX 32 OR BELOW: 2 0.01 INCH OR MORE: 7 MAX 90 OR ABOVE: 0 0.10 INCH OR MORE: 7 MIN 32 OR BELOW: 17 0.50 INCH OR MORE: 2 MIN 0 OR BELOW: 0 1.00 INCH OR MORE: 0 [HDD (BASE 65) ] TOTAL THIS MO. 636 CLEAR (SCALE 0-3) 14 DPTR FM NORMAL 87 PTCLDY (SCALE 4-7) 9 TOTAL FM JUL 1 3780 CLOUDY (SCALE 8-10) 7 DPTR FM NORMAL -45 [CDD (BASE 65) ] TOTAL THIS MO. 0 DPTR FM NORMAL -3 [PRESSURE DATA] TOTAL FM JAN 1 0 HIGHEST SLP 30.48 ON 6 DPTR FM NORMAL -3 LOWEST SLP 29.66 ON 30 [REMARKS] #FINAL-03-19#