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Latitude 44 21 N - Longitude 103 46 W - Elevation 5350 Feet
Station Record Begins 03/01/1909
Station Record Begins 03/01/1909
All | Yearly Top 10 Precipitation Records | Top 30 Daily Precipitation Records
Click Month (below) for Monthly Top Ten Temperature / Precipitation Records
30 Year Normals (1981-2010) | |||||||||||||
| JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC | Annual | |
| Max (F) | 36.0 | 36.8 | 43.3 | 51.5 | 61.2 | 70.9 | 79.0 | 78.3 | 68.3 | 55.2 | 42.9 | 35.1 | 55.0 |
| Min (F) | 16.9 | 17.4 | 23.2 | 30.5 | 39.9 | 48.7 | 55.6 | 54.6 | 45.1 | 34.2 | 24.1 | 16.4 | 34.0 |
| Mean (F) | 26.5 | 27.1 | 33.3 | 41.0 | 50.5 | 59.8 | 67.3 | 66.5 | 56.7 | 44.7 | 33.5 | 25.8 | 44.5 |
| Precip (inches) | 1.34 | 1.58 | 2.58 | 3.55 | 4.64 | 3.57 | 2.76 | 2.09 | 1.99 | 3.04 | 1.83 | 1.51 | 30.48 |
| Snowfall (inches) | 23.8 | 24.9 | 32.9 | 32.8 | 8.0 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.5 | 19.6 | 25.1 | 27.0 | 197.5 |
| HDD | 1195 | 1061 | 984 | 721 | 453 | 195 | 54 | 65 | 278 | 630 | 945 | 1217 | 7797 |
| CDD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 39 | 125 | 110 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 309 |
Top 30 Information | ||||
Rainfall | Snowfall | |||
| Amount (inches) | Date | Rank | Amount (inches) | Date |
| 5.73 | 5/31/1909 | 1 | 52.0 | 3/14/1973 |
| 5.65 | 3/14/1973 | 2 | 45.1 | 11/6/2008 |
| 5.58 | 6/14/1976 | 3 | 44.5 | 4/19/2006 |
| 5.14 | 10/6/1994 | 4 | 40.2 | 3/11/1988 |
| 5.08 | 5/14/1965 | 5 | 39.2 | 5/2/2008 |
| 5.05 | 5/23/1933 | 6 | 38.9 | 10/26/1996 |
| 4.64 | 10/10/2010 | 7 | 35.2 | 4/26/1994 |
| 4.53 | 5/22/1952 | 8 | 33.9 | 4/5/1997 |
| 4.40 | 5/11/1922 | 9 | 33.8 | 2/27/1998 |
| 4.08 | 6/18/1998 | 10 | 33.4 | 10/5/1998 |
| 4.06 | 5/8/1995 | 11 | 32.4 | 3/1/1998 |
| 4.05 | 5/2/1946 | 12 | 32.1 | 4/26/1984 |
| 4.04 | 8/21/1964 | 13 | 31.9 | 11/1/2000 |
| 3.90 | 6/12/1970 | 14 | 31.1 | 10/9/1982 |
| 3.82 | 5/15/1925 | 15 | 30.5 | 11/26/1993 |
| 3.75 | 4/19/2006 | 16 | 30.2 | 3/24/2009 |
| 3.51 | 10/9/1982 | 17 | 29.5 | 4/4/1955 |
| 3.43 | 10/26/1996 | 18 | 29.5 | 4/18/1918 |
| 3.39 | 9/5/1971 | 19 | 29.4 | 11/29/2010 |
| 3.34 | 10/5/1998 | 20 | 27.0 | 3/30/1977 |
| 3.33 | 5/15/1982 | 21 | 26.9 | 4/19/2000 |
| 3.30 | 11/1/2000 | 22 | 26.7 | 10/22/1995 |
| 3.28 | 6/9/1964 | 23 | 26.3 | 3/30/2009 |
| 3.21 | 5/20/1985 | 24 | 26.2 | 4/19/1992 |
| 3.20 | 6/1/2007 | 25 | 26.2 | 11/5/1922 |
| 3.16 | 11/6/2008 | 26 | 26.0 | 12/25/2009 |
| 3.13 | 6/10/1941 | 27 | 25.0 | 4/12/1970 |
| 3.09 | 5/9/1965 | 28 | 25.0 | 5/9/1965 |
| 3.05 | 9/18/2002 | 29 | 24.9 | 2/26/1998 |
| 2.97 | 6/15/1976 | 30 | 24.6 | 1/29/1994 |
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