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Monthly Climate Summary - May 2013

National Weather Service, Springfield, MO

Overview

Normal Departure Maps

Records

Upcoming Normals

Monthly Climate Overview

May 2013 was a month with extremely cold temperatures near the beginning of the month, where there was actually accumulating snowfall, but transitioned into a more typical pattern for the month for the second half of the month, where there were several rounds of heavy rain and severe storms.

Here are some links to events from the month of May 2013.

Historic May 3rd Snowfall for the Ozarks

Severe weather event from May 19th-20th.

Severe Storms and Flooding May 30th and 31st.

	Springfield	Joplin	West Plains	Vichy
Highest Temperature of the Month	87	87	90	88
Average High Temperature	73.7	73.9	73.8	72.9
Lowest Temperature of the Month	32	32	34	33
Average Low Temperature	54.0	53.7	53.6	53.1
Average Mean Temperature	63.9	63.8	63.7	63.0
Depart from Normal	-0.9	-3.2	-1.7	-0.8
Rank	55th coldest / 126	16th coldest / 86	22nd coldest / 65	17th coldest / 67
Days with lows of 32 deg F or Lower	1	2	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	0	0	1	0

Precipitation (Inches)	7.97	7.89	5.54	7.13
Depart from Normal	+ 2.87	+ 2.18	+ 0.60	+ 2.09
Rank	11th wettest / 126	16th wettest / 101	18th wettest / 65	13th wettest / 69
days of 0.01 or greater	12	13	14	13
days of 0.10 or greater	8	12	8	8
days of 0.50 or greater	5	6	4	6
days of 1.00 or greater	3	2	1	2
Monthly Snowfall	1.4

Monthly Climate Maps

May 2013 Precipitation Departure from Normal

May 2013 Precipitation Departure from Normal

May 2013 Average Temperature Departure from Normal

May 2013 Average Temperature Departure from Normal

Monthly Climate Records

List of May 2013 Records
Date	Station	Record
May 3rd	Springfield	lowest high temperature of 36 breaks previous record of 48 set in 1954.
	Joplin	lowest high temperature of 43 breaks previous record of 51 set in 1978.
	West Plains	lowest high temperature of 40 breaks previous record of 53 set in 1978.
	Rolla/Vichy	lowest high temperature of 38 breaks previous record of 50 set in 1954.
	These above temperatures are new records for the coldest daily high temperatures for the month of May.
May 4th	Joplin	Record low temperature of 33 degrees ties the old record set in 1954.
	Joplin	Record lowest high temperature of 46 degrees breaks the old record of 51 set in 1978.
	West Plains	Record lowest high temperature of 47 breaks the old record of 52 set in 1978.
May 5th	Joplin	Record low of 35 breaks the old record of 38 set in 1979.
May 5th	Rolla/Vichy	Record low of 40 ties the old record set in 1958.
May 12th	Springfield	Record low of 36 breaks the old record of 37 set in 1946, 1960 and 2008.
May 12th	Rolla/Vichy	Record low of 35 breaks the old record of 36 set in 2008.
May 14th	West Plains	Record high of 90 breaks the old record of 87 set in 1987.
May 20th	Rolla/Vichy	Record daily rainfall of 1.58 inches breaks the old record of 1.20 set in 1947.
May 31st	Springfield	Record daily rainfall of 2.50 inches breaks the old record of 2.23 inches set in 1997.
May 31st	West Plains	Record daily rainfall of 2.01 inches breaks the old record of 1.18 inches set in 2004.

Monthly Climate Normals

Normal Conditions for the Upcoming 3 Months
Springfield
	High	Low	Precip.	Snowfall
June	83.8	63.1	4.85	0.0
July	88.8	67.6	3.68	0.0
August	89.0	66.6	3.55	0.0
Joplin
	High	Low	Precip.	Snowfall
June	85.8	65.1	5.86	0.0
July	90.6	69.9	3.81	0.0
August	91.0	68.4	3.35	0.0
West Plains
	High	Low	Precip.
June	84.2	63.2	4.02
July	89.5	66.6	3.55
August	89.4	65.0	3.23
Vichy
	High	Low	Precip.
June	82.6	62.1	4.63
July	88.1	66.5	4.44
August	87.6	65.0	3.67