February 2013 Monthly Climate Summary

Monthly Climate Summary - February 2013

National Weather Service, Springfield, MO

Overview

Normal Departure Maps

Records

Upcoming Normals

February 2013 can generally be classified as a month of slightly below normal temperatures and above normal precipitation for the Missouri Ozarks into extreme southeast Kansas. The region remained in a northwest flow pattern aloft for quite a bit of the month which brough quite a few storm systems through the area.

February 21st Snow

February 26th Snow

	Springfield	Joplin	West Plains	Vichy
Highest Temperature of the Month	62	67	65	60
Average High Temperature	45.9	47.0	46.9	43.0
Lowest Temperature of the Month	7	10	8	5
Average Low Temperature	27.7	28.2	27.8	25.1
Average Mean Temperature	36.8	37.6	37.3	34.1
Depart from Normal	-0.4	-2.2	-0.6	-1.6
Rank	61st warmest / 126	37th coldest / 84	29th coldest / 65	25th coldest / 64
Days with lows of 32 deg F or Lower	22	20	21	26
Days with lows of 0 deg F or Lower	0	0	0	0
Days with highs of 32 degrees or lower	1	0	2	5
Days with highs of 90 degrees or warmer	0	0	0	0

Precipitation (Inches)	2.28	2.70	3.94	2.24
Depart from Normal	-0.24	+ 0.38	+ 1.10	+ 0.31
Rank	44th wettest / 126	26th wettest / 103	15th wettest / 65	24th wettest / 65
days of 0.01 or greater	12	9	11	7
days of 0.10 or greater	7	5	8	7
days of 0.50 or greater	1	1	3	2
days of 1.00 or greater	0	1	1	0
Monthly Snowfall	5.3

February 2013 Precipitation Departure from Normal

February 2013 Precipitation Departure from Normal

February 2013 Average Temperature Departure from Normal

February 2013 Average Temperature Departure from Normal

List of February 2013 Records
Date	Station	Record
Feb 10th	West Plains	Record precipitaiton of 0.69 inches tied previous record set in 1953.
Feb 21st	Joplin	Record precipitation of 1.05 inches breaks old record of 0.87 set in 2008.
Feb 25th	West Plains	Record precipitation of 1.43 inches breaks the old record of 0.95 inches set in 1957.

Normal Conditions for the Upcoming 3 Months
Springfield
	High	Low	Precip.	Snowfall
March	57.5	35.2	3.62	2.4
April	67.2	44.3	4.32	0.0
May	75.3	54.4	5.10	0.0
Joplin
	High	Low	Precip.	Snowfall
March	60.1	37.7	3.42	1.1
April	70.0	46.9	4.47	0.0
May	77.7	56.2	5.71	0.0
West Plains
	High	Low	Precip.
March	59.5	35.5	4.29
April	69.7	45.1	4.48
May	76.7	54.2	4.94
Vichy
	High	Low	Precip.
March	56.3	34.3	3.45
April	66.7	43.8	4.22
May	74.5	53.2	5.04