ANNUAL CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY FOR DETROIT - 1998
...1998 - WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD IN DETROIT...
JANUARY - NO SINGLE DIGIT TEMPERATURES (NOR DURING THE WINTER OF
1997-98)
THE AFFECTS OF EL NINO GOT INTO HIGH GEAR DURING JANUARY...PUSHING
THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WELL ABOVE NORMAL /32.8 DEGREES...+9.9/
THIS PLACED JANUARY 1998 IN A TIE WITH JANUARY 1989 AS THE 7TH
WARMEST JANUARY ON RECORD SINCE 1870. NO SINGLE DIGIT TEMPERATURES
WERE RECORDED DURING JANUARY OR THE ENTIRE WINTER OF 1997-98. NORMALLY
THE DETROIT AREA HAS ABOUT 4 BELOW ZERO DAYS IN JANUARY AND 8 FOR AN
ENTIRE WINTER. ONE OUTSTANDING FACT DISCOVERED...IN NEARLY 40 YEARS OF
RECORD KEEPING...THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME AT DETROIT METRO AIRPORT HAD
GONE THROUGH A WINTER WITHOUT A SINGLE DIGIT TEMPERATURE. WHILE THERE
WERE NO RECORD HIGHS DURING THE MONTH...THERE WERE TWO RECORD HIGH
MINIMUMS...THE 5TH /42/ AND 6TH /49/.
WHILE JANUARY WAS CONSIDERABLY WETTER THAN NORMAL /+ 1.02/...IT DID
NOT MAKE THE LIST OF TOP TEN WETTEST JANUARY'S ON RECORD. EVEN WITH
THE MILD WEATHER...OVER EIGHT INCHES /8.3/ OF SNOW FELL.
FEBRUARY - SECOND WARMEST FEBRUARY ON RECORD
THE EFFECTS OF EL NINO ONLY GOT STRONGER DURING FEBRUARY ACROSS THE
DETROIT METRO AREA. THE MONTHLY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 36.7 WAS OVER
11 DEGREES /+11.3/ ABOVE NORMAL. SURPRISINGLY THOUGH...AS WARM AS THE
MONTH WAS...IT ONLY ONLY PLACED SECOND AND WAS NOT THE WARMEST FEBRUARY
ON RECORD /39.5/...WHICH IS ALMOST THREE DEGREES WARMER. JUST LIKE OUR
WARM JANUARY...THERE WERE NO RECORD HIGHS DURING FEBRUARY. AN UNUSUALLY
NICE STRETCH OF NEARLY DRY EARLY SPRING-LIKE WEATHER VISITED THE AREA
DURING THE FIRST 10 DAYS.
BESIDES THE ABNORMAL WARMTH...ANOTHER EQUALLY OUTSTANDING WEATHER
FEATURE IN FEBRUARY WAS THE ALMOST NON-EXISTENCE OF SNOW. JUST A MERE
TRACE OF SNOW WAS RECORDED ON THE 24TH. THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT
ONLY A TRACE OF SNOW WAS RECORDED DURING ANY FEBRUARY IN DETROIT...SINCE
MONTHLY SNOW RECORDS BEGAN IN THE WINTER OF 1879-80. THE PREVIOUS NEARLY
SNOWLESS FEBRUARY WAS DURING THE EL NINO WINTER OF 1952-53 WHEN ONLY .7
OF SNOW FELL. THOUGH THERE WAS A LACK SNOW...THERE WAS NOT A LACK OF
RAIN WITH OVER THREE AND A HALF INCHES /3.60/ FALLING. EVEN THOUGH IT
WAS NEARLY TWO INCHES /+1.86/ ABOVE NORMAL...IT DID NOT MAKE THE LIST
OF TOP TEN WETTEST FEBRUARYS. NEARLY TWO THIRDS OF THE MONTH'S RAIN
/2.24/ FELL DURING A HEAVY RAIN EVENT 17TH THAT CAUSED SOME FLOODING.
IN ADDITION...A STRONG EASTERLY WIND CAUSED SOME SHORELINE EROSION ON
LAKES ERIE AND ST. CLAIR.
MARCH - MID-MONTH THE LION ROARED
THE ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION TREND OF FEBRUARY
CONTINUED INTO THE FIRST WEEK OF MARCH OVER METRO DETROIT. THEN...
COLDER WEATHER DOMINATED THE AREA DURING THE SECOND AND THIRD WEEK
AS A NORTHWESTERLY WIND FLOW DOMINATED. DURING THAT TIME PERIOD...
AFTER VIRTUALLY NO SNOW IN FEBRUARY...TWO POTENT STORM CENTERS A WEEK
APART BROUGHT SNOW...STRONG WINDS AND BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES. A
STRONG CLIPPER-TYPE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM BLEW THROUGH THE AREA ON
FRIDAY THE 13TH...DEPOSITED 1-3 INCHES OF SNOW...BROUGHT STRONG WINDS
AND CREATED NEAR ZERO WIND CHILLS. THEN THE NEXT FRIDAY NIGHT /20TH-
FIRST DAY OF SPRING/...THE SECOND STORM CENTER BROUGHT AN UNSPRING-LIKE
NASTY MIX OF SNOW /2-5 INCHES/...SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN TO THE AREA
ALONG WITH STRONG NORTHEAST WINDS.
UNSEASONABLY WARM WEATHER TOOK HOLD AGAIN THE LAST WEEK OF THE MONTH.
READINGS AVERAGED 20 TO 30 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL AS HIGHS PUSHED INTO
THE 70S WITH EVEN AN 81 DEGREES ON THE 30TH. TWO RECORD HIGHS WERE TIED
WITH 79 ON THE 27TH AND 81 ON THE 30TH. THIS WARM WEATHER LATE IN THE
MONTH...ALONG WITH A GENEROUS AMOUNT OF PRECIPITATION /4.08/...LEAD TO
A RAPID GREEN-UP A FEW WEEKS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE.
APRIL - MILD WITH PLENTY OF APRIL SHOWERS
MILD AND WET WEATHER CONTINUED RIGHT THROUGH APRIL ACROSS METRO
DETROIT. DESPITE A COOL SPELL LATE IN THE MONTH...TEMPERATURES
AVERAGED ABOUT 3 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. ALONG WITH THE MILD WEATHER
CAME THE RAINS. TWO DAYS IN PARTICULAR HAD SOAKING RAINS...THE 9TH
WHEN 1.40 INCHES FELL AND THE 26TH WITH 1.10. THESE TWO DAYS ALONE
ACCOUNTED FOR 2 1/2 OF THE NEARLY FOUR INCHES OF RAIN THAT FELL. THOUGH
THE RAINS WERE PLENTIFUL...SEVERE WEATHER WAS ALMOST NON-EXISTENT WITH
JUST ISOLATED STORMS ON THE 8TH AND THE 16TH...FLIRTING WITH SEVERE
LIMITS.
NO SNOW WAS RECORDED IN APRIL...A COUPLE OF INCHES BELOW THE NORM.
SNOWFALL FOR THE 1997-98 SEASON WAS ONLY ABOUT HALF OF THE NORMAL
/ABOUT 42.0/ WITH JUST 22.5 INCHES TOTAL...MORE OR LESS COMPLIMENTS OF
EL NINO. THIS LIGHT AMOUNT OF SNOW PUT THE 1997-98 SEASON IN 12TH
PLACE FOR LEAST AMOUNT SNOW SINCE 1880. THE SEASONAL SNOWFALL NORTH AND
WEST OF DETROIT... AS USUAL...WAS HIGHER WITH THE NWS IN WHITE LAKE
(JUST WEST OF PONTIAC) RECEIVING JUST OVER 40 INCHES /40.2/.
MAY - SECOND WARMEST MAY ON RECORD
TEMPERATURES IN MAY AVERAGED SIGNIFICANTLY ABOVE NORMAL. IN FACT...
EVERY DAY UP THROUGH THE 21ST AVERAGED CLOSE TO 9 1/2 DEGREES ABOVE
NORMAL. A COOL SPELL OVER THE AREA DURING MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND...
HELPED DROP THE MONTHLY DEPARTURE BACK TO 7.2 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL.
THIS PLACED MAY OF 1998 AS SECOND WARMEST MAY ON RECORD WITH AN AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE OF 65.6 DEGREES /WARMEST MAY ON RECORD - 1991 WITH 66.5/.
EVEN AS WARM AS MAY WAS...NO NEW RECORD HIGHS WERE SET. WE DID COME
CLOSE...HOWEVER...WITH A 90 DEGREE READING /RECORD 91/ ON THE 19TH.
MAY WAS SOMEWHAT ON THE DRY SIDE WITH ABOUT 2 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN
FALLING. RAINFALL WAS SCATTERED DURING THE FIRST WEEK OF THE MONTH...
BUT AFTER THE 8TH...ONLY THREE DAYS RECORDED ANY MEASURABLE RAIN.
MOST OF THE RAIN FELL ON THE 31ST WHEN...A LINE OF VIOLENT THUNDER-
STORMS PLOWED THROUGH SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN JUST AFTER SUNRISE.
THESE SEVERE STORMS RAKED THE AREA WITH VERY STRONG STRAIGHT-LINE
WINDS RANGING FROM AROUND 50 MPH TO AS HIGH AS 100 MPH. AT THE NWS
OFFICE IN WHITE LAKE...A WIND GUST OF 67 MPH WAS CLOCKED AT 656 AM.
NUMEROUS TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES WERE DOWNED...ESPECIALLY ACROSS
DETROIT'S WEST AND NORTHERN SUBURBS.
JUNE - COLD THE FIRST HALF...HOT AND STORMY THE SECOND
THOUGH JUNE 1998 AVERAGED SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL...THIS WAS VERY
MISLEADING. THE FIRST HALF OF THE MONTH WAS UNSEASONABLY COLD AS
THE JET STREAM SWITCHED TO NORTHWEST FLOW RIGHT OUT OF THE ARCTIC.
THE COLD AIR THAT HAD STORED UP DURING OUR MILD WINTER BROKE LOOSE
AND PLUNGED SOUTHEAST INTO THE GREAT LAKES. IN FACT...BY THE END OF
THE FIRST WEEK OF JUNE...TEMPERATURES AVERAGED NEARLY 9 DEGREES BELOW
NORMAL...QUITE A REVERSAL FROM OUR WARM MAY. NOT ONLY WAS THE FIRST
WEEK OF JUNE COLD... THERE WAS ACTUALLY SOME SLEET REPORTED AROUND
MILAN AND ANN ARBOR DURING THE FORENOON HOURS OF THE SIXTH. THE
LATEST THAT SNOW OR SLEET WAS EVER REPORTED IN DETROIT WAS ON MAY 31ST,
1910...WHEN A MIX OF LIGHT RAIN AND SNOW FELL DURING THE EARLY MORNING
HOURS. BUT "OFFICIALLY"...NO SLEET OR SNOW WAS OBSERVED AT DETROIT
METRO AIRPORT. ALL THIS COMING AFTER SUCH A MILD AND SNOWLESS WINTER!
A RECORD LOW WAS TIED ON THE 6TH WITH 41 DEGREES...WHILE A RECORD LOW
MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE WAS SET THE DAY BEFORE /5TH/ WITH A HIGH OF JUST 53.
THE HEAT AND HUMIDITY POURED INTO THE AREA THE SECOND HALF OF THE MONTH.
WHILE NO RECORD HIGHS WERE SET IN JUNE...IT WAS ESPECIALLY MISERABLE ON
THE 25TH. TEMPERATURES REACHED THE MID 90S AND DEW POINTS WERE IN THE
MID TO UPPER 70S...MAKING IT FEEL LIKE IT WAS 110.
ALONG WITH THE HEAT DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE MONTH...THUNDERSTORMS
OFTEN POPPED UP AND OCCASIONALLY BECAME SEVERE. IN FACT...FROM THE 16TH
TO THE 30TH...THERE WERE NINE SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS ACROSS SOUTHEAST
LOWER MICHIGAN. THIS CERTAINLY MADE UP FOR THE RELATIVELY BENIGN SEVERE
WEATHER SEASON UP UNTIL LATE MAY.
JULY - WARM...SULTRY AND STORMY
THE VERY WARM WEATHER OF LATE JUNE CONTINUED THROUGH MUCH OF JULY
AND WAS FREQUENTLY ACCOMPANIED BY VERY HUMID CONDITIONS. THE HOTTEST
OF THE WEATHER CAME THE THIRD WEEK AND PEAKED ON THE 21ST WHEN THE
TEMPERATURE HIT 95 AND WITH THE HUMIDITY...IT FELT LIKE IT ABOUT
110 DEGREES...MIMICKING THE MISERABLY HOT AND HUMID DAY OF JUNE 25TH.
EVEN WITH THE OVERALL WARM WEATHER...COOLER AND LESS HUMID AIR MASSES
VISITED ROUTINELY DURING JULY GIVING METRO AREA AND IT'S INHABITANTS
A NEEDED BREAK.
FREQUENT THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE MONTH GAVE RISE TO THE OCCASIONAL
SEVERE WEATHER EVENT. THE STRONGEST AND MOST WIDESPREAD PLOWED THROUGH
THE AREA LATE ON THE 21ST. STRONG DAMAGING WINDS /67 MPH-DETROIT METRO
ARPT/ ALONG WITH HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS SEEN. TWO DEATHS AND TWO
INJURIES WERE REPORTED IN WOODHAVEN. NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES
WERE DOWNED CAUSING WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES. A THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS
TROPICAL IN NATURE...DUMPED 4.34 INCHES OF RAIN ON METRO AIRPORT ON
THE 7TH. EVEN WITH 5.72 INCHES OF RAIN IN JULY...IT DID NOT MAKE THE
TOP TEN WETTEST JULYS.
AUGUST - WARM AND WET N' DRY
THE WARM SUMMER PATTERN ESTABLISHED BY LATE JUNE PERSISTED THROUGH
AUGUST IN THE METRO DETROIT AREA. ALONG WITH THE HEAT...OCCASIONAL
BOUTS OF HIGH HUMIDITY MADE IT SEEM WORSE AT TIMES. BUT EVEN WHILE
TEMPERATURES AVERAGED ABOVE NORMAL...THERE WAS NOT ANY EXTENDED PERIOD
OF HEAT AND HUMIDITY. THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE OF THE MONTH JUST NICKED
90 DEGREES ON THE 8TH AND 89 WAS REGISTERED ON THE 23RD. BOTH READINGS
WERE ACCOMPANIED BY HUMID WEATHER THAT MADE IT FEEL WORSE.
OCCASIONAL THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA...PRODUCED OUR NORMAL RAINFALL
FOR ALL OF AUGUST BY MID-MONTH. IN FACT...OVER THREE INCHES OF RAIN
FELL IN THE FIRST WEEK ALONE. THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING TORRENTIAL
DOWNPOURS CAUSED SOME LOCAL FLASH FLOODING... URBAN AND RIVER FLOODING
EARLY IN THE MONTH. ON THE 6TH...RAINFALL TOTALS RANGED FROM 1.39 IN
ALLEN PARK TO 5.09 IN MANCHESTER. THEN ON THE 9TH...FLASH FLOOD
WARNINGS WERE ISSUED FOR MACOMB AND OAKLAND COUNTIES WHEN THUNDERSTORMS
DUMPED EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN. THE HIGHEST AMOUNT WAS AROUND EIGHT INCHES
IN CLINTON TOWNSHIP. THESE SERIES OF STORMS ALSO HELPED ALLEVIATE THE
DRIER CONDITIONS EXPERIENCED NORTH OF METRO AIRPORT IN DETROIT AND IT'S
NORTHERN SUBURBS. AFTER A RAINY START...AUGUST TEMPORARILY DRIED OUT
BETWEEN THE 9TH AND THE 25TH WITH ONLY TWO DAYS DURING THAT PERIOD
HAVING MEASURABLE RAIN.
SEPTEMBER - EIGHTH WARMEST SEPTEMBER ON RECORD AND DRY
OUR AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 68.0...MADE SEPTEMBER THE 8TH WARMEST
SEPTEMBER ON RECORD. EVEN WITH THE WARMTH...ONLY ONE RECORD HIGH WAS
ESTABLISHED ON THE 26TH WITH 91. THAT 91 WAS THE THIRD LATEST 90 DEGREE
OR BETTER RECORDED SO LATE IN THE SEASON. SEPTEMBER WAS A FAVORITE FOR
WEEKEND JAUNTS AND OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES WITH NICE WEATHER EACH WEEKEND
AND TEMPERATURES PEAKING.
SEPTEMBER'S RAINFALL WAS ONLY ABOUT HALF OF WHAT IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN.
JUST 1.50 INCHES OF RAIN FELL DURING THE MONTH /NORMAL 2.89/ BUT
SEPTEMBER WAS NOT ANYWHERE NEAR THE 10TH DRIEST. THE DRY PATTERN KEPT
ANY NOTABLE SEVERE WEATHER AT BAY.
OCTOBER - BEAUTIFUL FALL WEATHER GETS INTO FULL SWING
OCTOBER...FOR THE MOST PART...WAS EXCEPTIONALLY NICE. TEMPERATURES
AVERAGED OVER TWO AND ONE-HALF DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THESE MILD
READINGS WERE ACCOMPANIED BY PLEASANT WEATHER AND CONSIDERABLE
DAILY SUNSHINE AND...LIKE SEPTEMBER...THE GOOD WEATHER HELD OVER MOST
WEEKENDS. DURING THE FIRST WEEK...HOWEVER...TEMPERATURES AVERAGED BELOW
NORMAL AND OVER AN INCH OF RAIN FELL. THEN ANOTHER MINI-COOL SNAP LATE
IN THE MONTH...PUSHED MORNING LOWS ON THE 22ND AND 23RD TO 33 DEGREES
AT DETROIT METRO AIRPORT. SCATTERED FROST ACCOMPANIED THIS COLDER
WEATHER IN SUBURBAN AND RURAL AREAS.
OCTOBER WAS ON THE DRY SIDE WITH ONLY 1.34 OF THE NORMAL 2.10 INCHES
FALLING. A GOOD PORTION OF THAT FELL ON THE 6TH AND 7TH ALONE.
NOVEMBER - UNUSUALLY PLEASANT AND MILD...MARRED BY ONE BIG STORM
NOVEMBER ON THE WHOLE WAS UNUSUALLY PLEASANT WITH A CONSIDERABLE
AMOUNT OF SUNSHINE. A PARTIAL ESTIMATE OF THE SUNSHINE /COMPARED TO
POSSIBLE/ GAVE US BETWEEN 45 AND 50 PERCENT...PUTTING NOVEMBER
SOMEWHERE IN THE TOP 20 SUNNIEST NOVEMBERS ON RECORD /NORMAL 35
PERCENT/. A GENEROUS PORTION OF SUNSHINE /NEAR 90 PERCENT POSSIBLE/
CAME DURING ONE OF THE NICEST THANKSGIVING WEEKENDS SEEN IN THE
AREA...ESPECIALLY THANKSGIVING DAY THROUGH SATURDAY. IT WAS ALSO
EXCEPTIONALLY MILD WITH HIGHS IN THE 50S AND 60S. TEMPERATURES FOR THE
MONTH AVERAGED ABOUT 3 1/2 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL...WHILE PRECIPITATION
/1.36/ CONTINUED WELL BELOW NORMAL /-1.31/.
THE ONLY REAL BIG NEGATIVE WEATHER FEATURE WAS THE DESTRUCTIVE INTENSE
LOW PRESSURE AREA /CENTRAL PRESSURE AROUND 28.40/ THAT BLEW THROUGH THE
GREAT LAKES ON THE 10TH AND 11TH...VETERANS DAY. WIND GUSTS AVERAGED IN
THE 50S AND 60S /STRONGEST GUST-70 MPH AT THE NWS AT WHITE LAKE/. SOME
POWER OUTAGES WERE CAUSED BY THE WIND WHICH DOWNED TREE LIMBS AND SOME
POWER LINES.
DECEMBER - UNUSUALLY MILD AND SUNNY FOR DECEMBER
LATEST SNOW OBSERVANCE (TRACE AND MEASURABLE) EVER
LIKE MANY OTHER MONTHS IN 1998...DECEMBER WAS NOT WITHOUT ITS SEVERAL
RECORDS. THE MOST NOTABLE WEATHER TREND DURING DECEMBER WAS THE UNUSUAL
WARMTH AND SUNSHINE. THE FIRST WEEK OF DECEMBER WAS ESPECIALLY MILD
WITH TWO RECORD HIGHS ESTABLISHED /5TH-65 AND THE 6TH-69 (ALSO THE
HIGHEST TEMP EVER RECORDED IN DECEMBER)/. THOUGH THE MONTH AVERAGED
7.0 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL...IT DID NOT PLACE IN THE TOP TEN WARMEST
DECEMBERS BECAUSE OF COLDER WEATHER LATE IN THE MONTH. SUNSHINE WAS
ABUNDANT WHEN ONE CONSIDERS THAT DECEMBER IS NORMALLY OUR CLOUDIEST
MONTH. FORTY-NINE PERCENT /NORMAL 30/ OF THE POSSIBLE SUNSHINE WAS
RECORDED AT THE NWS IN WHITE LAKE. THIS PLACED DECEMBER 1998 IN A TIE
FOR SECOND PLACE WITH 1978 FOR THE SECOND SUNNIEST DECEMBER ON RECORD.
WITH THE SEVERAL DAYS OF SUNSHINE...DECEMBER WAS ON THE DRY SIDE /1.16/
AND THE NOTICEABLE LACK OF SNOWFALL CONTINUED WITH ONLY 1.2 INCHES
FALLING. THIS RANKED DECEMBER AS THE 4TH SNOWLESS DECEMBER ON RECORD.
IN ADDITION...NO SNOW WAS OBSERVED THIS SEASON UNTIL A TRACE ON THE
16TH...WHICH WAS THE LATEST ON RECORD /OLD RECORD-NOV 30TH IN 1918 AND
1963/. ALSO...THE FIRST MEASURABLE SNOW DID NOT COME UNTIL THE 29TH
WHEN .1 OF AN INCH FELL...BEATING THE OLD RECORD BY 10 DAYS /DEC 19TH
1948/. A STRONG SQUALL-LINE OF HEAVY SHOWERS AND SEVERE WIND WAS
GENERATED BY THE FRONT AS IT SURGED THROUGH SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN JUST
BEFORE MIDNIGHT ON THE 6TH. SEVERAL WIND GUSTS OF 55 MPH TO AS HIGH
AS 75 MPH CAUSED SOME POWER OUTAGES AND DAMAGE.
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...1998 MONTHLY BREAKDOWN OF TEMPERATURE/PRECIPITATION AT DETROIT
METROPOLITAN AIRPORT...
1998 MONTHLY TEMPERATURES AT DETROIT METROPOLITAN AIRPORT
AVERAGE DEPARTURE RANK FOR WARMEST
MONTH TEMPERATURE FROM NORMAL DURING THE MONTH*
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JANUARY 32.8 DEGREES +9.9 DEGREES 7TH-TIED
FEBRUARY 36.7 DEGREES +11.3 DEGREES 2ND
MARCH 39.5 DEGREES +3.8 DEGREES 16TH
APRIL 50.4 DEGREES +3.1 DEGREES 17TH
MAY 65.6 DEGREES +7.2 DEGREES 2ND
JUNE 69.1 DEGREES +1.5 DEGREES 30TH
JULY 73.4 DEGREES +1.1 DEGREES 30TH-TIED
AUGUST 73.2 DEGREES +2.7 DEGREES 20TH-TIED
SEPTEMBER 68.0 DEGREES +4.8 DEGREES 8TH
OCTOBER 53.9 DEGREES +2.2 DEGREES 41ST
NOVEMBER 43.8 DEGREES +3.6 DEGREES 13TH
DECEMBER 35.3 DEGREES +7.0 DEGREES 12TH
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OVERALL 53.5 DEGREES +4.9 DEGREES 1ST
* THERE HAVE BEEN 128 YEARS OF RECORD /1870/
1998 MONTHLY PRECIPITATION AT DETROIT METROPOLITAN AIRPORT
TOTAL DEPARTURE RANK DURING
MONTH PRECIPITATION FROM NORMAL THE MONTH*
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JANUARY 2.78 INCHES +1.02 INCHES 29TH WETTEST
FEBRUARY 3.60 INCHES +1.86 INCHES 15TH WETTEST
MARCH 4.08 INCHES +1.53 INCHES 12TH WETTEST
APRIL 3.96 INCHES +1.01 INCHES 24TH WETTEST
MAY 2.55 INCHES -0.37 INCHES 44TH DRIEST
JUNE 2.69 INCHES -0.92 INCHES 43RD DRIEST
JULY 5.72 INCHES +2.54 INCHES 14TH WETTEST
AUGUST 4.19 INCHES +0.76 INCHES 26TH WETTEST
SEPTEMBER 1.50 INCHES -1.39 INCHES 23RD DRIEST
OCTOBER 1.34 INCHES -0.76 INCHES 33RD DRIEST
NOVEMBER 1.36 INCHES -1.31 INCHES 17TH DRIEST
DECEMBER 1.16 INCHES -1.66 INCHES 16TH DRIEST
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OVERALL 34.93 INCHES +2.31 INCHES 36TH WETTEST
* THERE HAVE BEEN 128 YEARS OF RECORD /1870/
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