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Monthly Climate Summary - October 2013

National Weather Service, Springfield, MO

Overview

Normal Departure Maps

Records

Upcoming Normals

Monthly Climate Overview

October 2013 was generally cooler than normal across the western part of the Missouri Ozarks into extreme southeast Kansas while the eastern Ozarks was near normal. Above normal precipitation occurred over much of the Missouri Ozarks and southeast Kansas with parts of central Missouri experiencing below normal precipitation for the month.

	Springfield	Joplin	West Plains	Vichy
Highest Temperature of the Month	84	86	84	84
Average High Temperature	66.9	68.1	68.6	66.4
Lowest Temperature of the Month	29	30	26	24
Average Low Temperature	46.7	47.6	46.1	44.4
Average Mean Temperature	56.8	57.9	57.5	55.4
Depart from Normal	-1.0	-1.9	+0.1	-1.2
Rank	39th coolest / 126	15th coolest / 84	30th warmest / 66	12th coolest / 63
Days with lows of 32 deg F or Lower	4	2	2	4
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	0	0

Precipitation (Inches)	6.93	4.72	3.51	2.24
Depart from Normal	+3.34	+0.69	-0.33	-1.27
Rank	7th wettest / 126	28th wettest / 101	24th wettest / 66	27th driest / 66
days of 0.01 or greater	8	10	13	8
days of 0.10 or greater	8	8	7	5
days of 0.50 or greater	4	3	3	1
days of 1.00 or greater	2	1	1	0
Monthly Snowfall	0.0

Monthly Climate Maps

October 2013 Precipitation Departure from Normal

October 2013 Precipitation Departure from Normal

October 2013 Average Temperature Departure from Normal

October 2013 Average Temperature Departure from Normal

Monthly Climate Records

List of October 2013 Records
Date	Station	Record
Oct 25	West Plains	Record low temperature of 26 degrees ties old record set back in 1965.
Oct 25	Vichy/Rolla	Record low temperature of 24 degrees breaks the old record of 30 set in 1968.
Oct 29	Springfield	Record rainfall of 2.35 inches breaks the old record of 1.72 set in 2009.
Oct 29	Joplin	Record rainfall of 2.14 inches breaks the old record of 1.22 inches set in 1985.

Monthly Climate Normals

Normal Conditions for the Upcoming 3 Months
Springfield
	High	Low	Precip.	Snowfall
November	56.7	35.4	4.22	0.7
December	44.9	25.0	3.04	4.9
January	42.9	22.4	2.47	5.4
Joplin
	High	Low	Precip.	Snowfall
November	58.9	37.9	3.78	0.4
December	47.0	27.5	2.82	2.8
January	44.9	25.0	2.03	4.7
West Plains
	High	Low	Precip.
November	57.0	36.5	4.58
December	46.4	26.0	3.64
January	44.6	23.5	2.72
Vichy
	High	Low	Precip.
November	55.3	35.1	3.87
December	43.0	24.4	2.64
January	40.7	21.5	2.17