NOAA's National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office

The Winter of 2001

The following is a summary of the Snow Season...through the end of March...
at Sioux Falls, SD...Sioux City, IA...and Huron, SD.

            CITY           SIOUX FALLS   SIOUX CITY      HURON

SNOW SO FAR THIS SEASON       56.5          48.0          85.1
(INCHES)                 14TH SNOWIEST               1ST SNOWIEST

RECORD SEASON                 94.7          72.8      OLD 77.7
                            1968-69       1916-17       1961-62

NORMAL FOR WHOLE SEASON       39.9          31.8          41.2

RECORD SNOW DEPTH         34 (12/31/68      28            36
(INCHES)                  AND 2/28/69)   3/13/62    2/25-3/1/2001

AVG TEMP DEC-FEB 2000-01      12.5          16.3          10.9
(DEGREES F.)             10TH COLDEST   9TH COLDEST

AVG TEMP IN COLDEST WINTER     8.0           9.5           7.0
(DEC-FEB) IN 1978/79 (DEG F.)

NORMAL WINTER TEMP (DEC-FEB)  17.3          21.0          17.7
(DEGREES F.)

IN ADDITION...SIOUX FALLS SET A NEW RECORD OF NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE
DAYS WITH SNOW ON THE GROUND WITH 141 DAYS FROM 11/7/2000 THROUGH 
3/27/2001. THE OLD RECORD WAS 125 DAYS FROM 11/17/96 THROUGH 
3/21/1997.

THE FOLLOWING IS A MONTH BY MONTH SUMMARY FOR SIOUX FALLS...SIOUX 
CITY...AND HURON FOR THE 2000-2001 SNOW SEASON...

                  NOV       DEC       JAN       FEB       MAR

SIOUX FALLS...

AVG TEMP         25.0       7.6      18.9      11.1      26.7
(DEGREES F.)

DEPARTURE FROM   -8.0     -10.7      +5.1      -8.6      -5.8
NORMAL (DEG F.)

SNOWFALL (INCHES)19.6      11.4      13.9       8.4       3.2

DEPARTURE FROM  +14.5      +3.6      +7.2      +0.7      -4.8
NORMAL (INCHES)

SIOUX CITY...

AVG TEMP         27.2      11.5      21.9      15.6      30.8
(DEGREES F.)

DEPARTURE FROM   -9.2     -10.3      +4.2      -8.0      -5.0
NORMAL (DEG F.)

SNOWFALL (INCHES) 8.3      18.0      12.2       7.3       2.2

DEPARTURE FROM   +5.0     +11.3      +5.8      +1.6      -5.3
NORMAL (INCHES)

HURON...

AVG TEMP         23.5       7.2      17.6       7.9      23.7
(DEGREES F.)

DEPARTURE FROM   -8.9     -10.9      +4.4     -11.5      -8.2
NORMAL (DEG F.)

SNOWFALL (INCHES)22.6      10.0      28.7      19.4       4.4

DEPARTURE FROM  +17.8      +2.8     +21.6     +10.7      -5.7
NORMAL (INCHES)

MONTHLY RECORDS...

HURON... 28.7 INCHES IN JANUARY 2001 FOR SNOWIEST JANUARY

SIOUX FALLS... 19.6 INCHES IN NOV. 2000 FOR 2ND SNOWIEST NOV.
7.6 DEGREES AVG IN DECEMBER 2000 FOR 2ND COLDEST DECEMBER
25.0 DEGREES AVG IN NOVEMBER 2000 TIED 5TH COLDEST NOVEMBER

SIOUX CITY... 11.5 DEGREES AVG IN DEC. 2000 FOR 2ND COLDEST DEC.
27.2 DEGREES AVG IN NOVEMBER FOR 3RD COLDEST NOVEMBER

NOTE...THE SNOW SEASON IS NOT NECESSARILY OVER YET. IF SIGNIFICANT 
SNOWFALL OCCURS IN APRIL...THIS STATEMENT WILL BE UPDATED.

RYRHOLM

The above information was originally transmitted as a Public Information Statement at:
210 pm CDT Monday, April 2, 2001.