Issued at 730 AM CST SAT DEC 25 2004
...FACTS AND FIGURES ON THIS RECENT COLD AND SNOW...
OUR RECENT BOUT WITH OLD MAN WINTER HAS SET A NUMBER OF RECORDS.
ALONG THE AXIS OF HEAVIEST SNOW...WHICH WAS ROUGHLY ALONG THE OHIO
RIVER...THIS WAS UNPRECEDENTED FOR A SINGLE EVENT. THE 22.3 INCH
TOTAL MEASURED AT EVANSVILLE ECLIPSED ALL RECORDS FOR A SINGLE STORM
TOTAL. THE SNOW WAS ACCOMPANIED BY THUNDER AT TIMES IN THE
EVANSVILLE AREA...WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO ISOLATED HIGHER TOTALS. HERE
ARE SOME FACTS THAT PUT THIS SNOWSTORM IN PERSPECTIVE...
THE EVANSVILLE SNOW TOTAL OF 22.3 INCHES...
...WAS ABOUT ONE AND A HALF TIMES THE AVERAGE SEASONAL SNOWFALL OF
14.2 INCHES.
...BROUGHT THE MONTHLY SNOWFALL TO THE HIGHEST FOR ANY DECEMBER
SINCE 1917 AND THE SECOND HIGHEST FOR ANY DECEMBER ON RECORD BACK TO
1897.
...MADE THIS MONTH THE THIRD SNOWIEST MONTH ON RECORD. ONLY JANUARY
OF 1918 /41 INCHES/ AND DECEMBER OF 1917 /25.1 INCHES/ WERE SNOWIER.
JANUARY OF 1977 WAS CLOSE...WITH 21.3 INCHES.
...MADE THIS THE WHITEST CHRISTMAS IN AVAILABLE RECORDS /SINCE
1948/. THE SNOW DEPTH THIS CHRISTMAS MORNING WAS 11 INCHES.
THE PADUCAH SNOW TOTAL OF 14.2 INCHES...
...WAS THE HIGHEST SINGLE EVENT TOTAL ON RECORD...SURPASSING THE
12.2 INCH TOTAL IN A JANUARY 1978 STORM.
...EXCEEDED THE AVERAGE SEASONAL SNOWFALL OF 10.2 INCHES.
...MADE THIS THE SNOWIEST DECEMBER ON RECORD.
...MADE THIS MONTH THE SNOWIEST SINCE FEBRUARY OF 1993...WHEN TWO
SEPARATE 7 TO 8 INCH SNOWFALLS OCCURRED ON THE 15TH AND 25TH.
...COINCIDED WITH THE MEDIAN DATE /DECEMBER 22/ OF THE FIRST
MEASURABLE SNOW AT PADUCAH.
EXTREME COLD FOLLOWED THE SNOW...WITH RECORD LOWS ON CHRISTMAS
MORNING AT BOTH PADUCAH AND EVANSVILLE. THE LOW AT
EVANSVILLE WAS MINUS 11...AND AT PADUCAH MINUS 8.
THE LOW OF MINUS 11 AT EVANSVILLE...
...FELL 4 DEGREES SHY OF THE COLDEST TEMPERATURE FOR ANY DAY IN
DECEMBER...WHICH OCCURRED ON DEC. 22 1989.
...WAS THE COLDEST TEMPERATURE SINCE JANUARY 19 1994...WHEN THE LOW
WAS MINUS 17.
THE LOW OF MINUS 8 AT PADUCAH...
...FELL TWO DEGREES SHY OF THE COLDEST TEMPERATURE FOR ANY DAY IN
DECEMBER...WHICH OCCURRED ON DEC. 22 1989.
...WAS THE COLDEST TEMPERATURE SINCE JANUARY 19 1994...WHEN THE LOW
WAS MINUS 13.
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YORK
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