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Monthly Climate Summary - August 2013

National Weather Service, Springfield, MO

Overview

Normal Departure Maps

Records

Upcoming Normals

Monthly Climate Overview

Despite a lack of rainfall for the second half of August and typically normal to above normal temperatures, the month will be categorized as below normal temperatures and above to much above normal precipitation. This stems from the tremendous amount of rainfall received across the area during the first half of the month. This resulted in serious and historic flooding in parts of the Ozarks.

Extreme heavy rainfall and flash flooding August 3rd - August 10th 2013

	Springfield	Joplin	West Plains	Vichy
Highest Temperature of the Month	96	97	95	97
Average High Temperature	85.4	87.4	83.9	83.7
Lowest Temperature of the Month	55	54	50	55
Average Low Temperature	67.3	67.3	65.2	64.6
Average Mean Temperature	76.3	77.4	74.5	74.2
Depart from Normal	-1.5	-2.3	-2.7	-2.1
Rank	56th coldest / 126	27th coldest / 82	13th coldest / 65	8th coldest / 67
Days with lows of 32 deg F or Lower	0	0	0	0
Days with lows of 0 deg F or Lower	0	0	0	0
Days with highs of 32 degrees or lower	0	0	0	0
Days with highs of 90 degrees or warmer	9	14	4	6

Precipitation (Inches)	5.84	4.60	10.62	4.29
Depart from Normal	+2.29	+1.25	+7.39	+0.62
Rank	22nd warmest / 126	31st warmest / 98	2nd warmest / 65	21st warmest / 69
days of 0.01 or greater	8	9	10	9
days of 0.10 or greater	7	7	8	7
days of 0.50 or greater	5	4	7	4
days of 1.00 or greater	2	2	5	1
Monthly Snowfall	0.0

Monthly Climate Maps

August 2013 Precipitation Departure from Normal

August 2013 Precipitation Departure from Normal

August 2013 Average Temperature Departure from Normal

August 2013 Average Temperature Departure from Normal

Monthly Climate Records

List of August 2013 Records
Date	Station	Record
Aug 4	Joplin	1.26 inches of rain breaks the old record of 0.85 set in 1985.
Aug 5	West Plains	2.58 inches of rain breaks the old record of 1.07 set in 2005.
Aug 6	Joplin	1.37 inches of rain breaks the old record of 0.75 inches set back in 1965.
Aug 6	West Plains	2.20 inches of rain breaks the old record of 1.50 inches set in 2005.
Aug 7	West Plains	1.60 inches of rain tied the old record set back in 1968.
Aug 8	West Plains	1.22 inches of rain breaks the old record of 1.06 set in 1950.
Aug 15	West Plains	A record low of 50 degrees breaks the old record of 51 set in 1994, 1967 and 1963.

Monthly Climate Normals

Normal Conditions for the Upcoming 3 Months
Springfield
	High	Low	Precip.	Snowfall
September	80.3	57.7	4.61	0.0
October	69.0	46.5	3.59	0.0
November	56.7	35.4	4.22	0.7
Joplin
	High	Low	Precip.	Snowfall
September	82.3	59.3	4.95	0.0
October	71.3	48.3	4.03	0.0
November	58.9	37.9	3.78	0.4
West Plains
	High	Low	Precip.
September	80.8	56.9	4.09
October	69.6	45.1	3.84
November	57.0	36.5	4.58
Vichy
	High	Low	Precip.
September	78.6	56.7	4.04
October	67.4	45.8	3.51
November	55.3	35.1	3.87