NOUS41 KCTP 011522 PNSCTP PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>053- 056>059-063>066-012100- PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1025 AM EST TUE JAN 1 2002 THE YEAR IN REVIEW FOR WILLIAMSPORT...2001 THE YEAR ENDED UP BEING A WARM AND DRY ONE FOR THE HOME OF THE LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE YEAR WAS 51.5. THIS WAS 1.6 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL AND MARKED THE 4TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR OF ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES. THERE WERE NO DAYS OBSERVED LAST YEAR WITH TEMPERATURES BELOW ZERO. THE COLDEST READING OBSERVED WAS 6 ABOVE ZERO BACK ON JANUARY 23. THERE WERE 2 HEAT-WAVES DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS. THE FIRST OCCURRED BETWEEN JULY 23 AND 25. THE SECOND OCCURRED BETWEEN AUGUST 5 AND 9 AND RESULTED IN A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 99 ON AUGUST 8. THE YEAR WAS THE 13TH DRIEST ON RECORD WITH 35.07 INCHES OF RAINFALL. THIS ENDED UP BEING MORE THAN 5 INCHES BELOW NORMAL. THE DRIEST WAS IN 1930 WHEN JUST 27.68 INCHES OF RAIN WAS OBSERVED. THE RAINFALL DEFICIT RESULTED IN THE REGION BEING PLACED UNDER A DROUGHT WATCH. SEE THE STATE COLLEGE WEB PAGE AT: HTTP://WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/ER/CTP/HYDRO/DROUGHT/DROUGHT.HTML FOR FURTHER DETAILS. SNOWFALL WAS ALSO SPARSE WITH JUST 37.8 INCHES FALLING IN THE WINTER MONTHS OF 2000-2001. THE CALENDAR YEAR SAW JUST 27.4 INCHES. NOTE: THE APPARENT DISCREPANCY IS CAUSED BY THE WAY THE TWO STATISTICS ARE CALCULATED. SNOWFALL FOR THE WINTER IS CALCULATED USING DATA, WHICH STARTS IN THE LAST MONTHS OF THE PREVIOUS YEAR. FOR 2001, WINTER SNOWFALL INCLUDES SNOW THAT FELL FROM OCTOBER 2000 THROUGH APRIL 2001, OR WHAT WE TYPICALLY THINK OF AS THE "WINTER MONTHS". SNOWFALL FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR IS COMPRISED OF SNOW THAT FALLS FROM JANUARY THROUGH DECEMBER OF A PARTICULAR YEAR. THE FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY OF THE YEAR IN STATISTICS. MONTH AVG TEMP +/- NORM PRECIP +/- NORM SNOW +/- NORM JAN27.5+2.3 1.14" -1.40" 8.1" -3.8" FEB32.1+4.1 1.23" -1.53" 5.9" -4.4" MAR35.2-2.9 4.17" +0.98" 11.2" +4.2" APR50.1+1.0 1.38" -1.85" TRACE -1.1" MAY61.1+1.6 3.22" -0.64" JUN70.0+2.2 4.84" +0.52" JUL69.9-2.4 2.57" -1.41" AUG74.2+3.4 5.38" +1.99" SEP61.7-1.8 4.73" +1.34" OCT53.0+1.0 2.09" -1.21" 0.0 -0.1" NOV46.2+4.4 2.74" -0.99" TRACE -3.1" DEC36.5+5.6 1.58" -1.45" 2.2" -6.1" SUMMARY... AVERAGE ANNUAL TEMPERATURE:51.5 1.6 DEG ABOVE NORMAL NORMAL: 49.9 TOTAL ANNUAL PRECIPITATION:35.07"5.65" BELOW NORMAL NORMAL PRECIPITATION:40.72" TOTAL ANNUAL SNOWFALL:27.3"14.5" BELOW NORMAL WINTER 2000-2001 SNOWFALL:37.8"4.0" BELOW NORMAL NORMAL SNOWFALL:41.8" WINTER 2000-2001 PRECIPITATION:5.05".....3.28" BELOW NORMAL (12TH DRIEST) NORMAL WINTER PRECIPITATION:8.33" WINTER 2000-2001 AVERAGE TEMPERATURE:27.8.....0.3 DEG BELOW NORMAL (37TH COLDEST) NORMAL WINTER AVERAGE TEMPERATURE:28.1 SUMMER 2001 PRECIPITATION:4.26".....7.43" BELOW NORMAL (70TH DRIEST) NORMAL SUMMER PRECIPITATION:11.69" SUMMER 2001 AVERAGE TEMPERATURE:71.4.....1.0 DEG ABOVE NORMAL (41ST WARMEST) NORMAL SUMMER AVERAGE TEMPERATURE:70.4 HIGHEST TEMPERATURE:99 ON AUGUST 8 LOWEST TEMPERATURE:6 ON JANUARY 23 NUMBER OF DAYS WITH MAX TEMPERATURE 90 OR HIGHER:15 NUMBER OF DAYS WITH MAX TEMPERATURE 32 OR LOWER:21 LAST FREEZE OF SPRING:29 ON APRIL 29 FIRST FREEZE OF FALL:31 ON OCTOBER 8 HIGHEST WIND GUST:60 MPH ON JULY 11 $$ LA CORTE