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Monthly Climate Summary - September 2013

National Weather Service, Springfield, MO

Overview

Normal Departure Maps

Records

Upcoming Normals

Monthly Climate Overview

September 2013 was a month with above normal temperatures and below normal precipitation across the region.

	Springfield	Joplin	West Plains	Vichy
Highest Temperature of the Month	95	96	94	96
Average High Temperature	83.1	84.4	82.9	81.8
Lowest Temperature of the Month	46	47	46	43
Average Low Temperature	60.7	61.6	59.3	58.2
Average Mean Temperature	60.7	61.6	59.3	58.2
Depart from Normal	+2.9	+2.2	+2.1	+2.4
Rank	25th warmest / 126	17th warmest / 84	15th warmest / 66	23rd warmest / 66
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	6	10	4	4

Precipitation (Inches)	2.18	Missing due to problems with the precipitation sensor.	1.65	2.86
Depart from Normal	-2.43		-2.44	-1.18
Rank	38th driest / 126		12th driest / 66	32nd driest / 69
days of 0.01 or greater	8		7	7
days of 0.10 or greater	5		4	6
days of 0.50 or greater	1		2	2
days of 1.00 or greater	0		0	1
Monthly Snowfall	0.0

Monthly Climate Maps

September 2013 Precipitation Departure from Normal

September 2013 Precipitation Departure from Normal

September 2013 Average Temperature Departure from Normal

September 2013 Average Temperature Departure from Normal

Monthly Climate Records

List of September 2013 Records
Date	Station	Record
No records occurred this month.

Monthly Climate Normals

Normal Conditions for the Upcoming 3 Months
Springfield
	High	Low	Precip.	Snowfall
October	69.0	46.5	3.59	0.0
November	56.7	35.4	4.22	0.7
December	44.9	25.0	3.04	4.9
Joplin
	High	Low	Precip.	Snowfall
October	71.3	48.3	4.03	0.0
November	58.9	37.9	3.78	0.4
December	47.0	27.5	2.82	2.8
West Plains
	High	Low	Precip.
October	69.6	45.1	3.84
November	57.0	36.5	4.58
December	46.4	26.0	3.64
Vichy
	High	Low	Precip.
October	67.4	45.8	3.51
November	55.3	35.1	3.87
December	43.0	24.4	2.64