For only the 3rd time in 49 months, average temperatures were below the 1951-1980 normal temperature. Six days were more than 10 degrees below normal, including the 31st, and February is off to a very cold start as well.
We had 22" of snow on the 27th from Winter Storm Juno, the 4th largest snowfall in one day on record in Portland. Total snow for the month was 42", and 34" of that fell during the week of the 24th to 30th. Up until then, we hadn't had our driveway plowed since Thanksgiving (our association plows our driveways only when there are 4" or more of snow from a storm).
Following up on my post about the Harpswell differential, January once again had warmer temperatures in Harpswell than in Portland (by about 0.4 degrees, still smaller than average for January).
Most importantly, we have passed Plus One Day, to great celebration in my household! The purple line in the 3rd graph below shows that the normal average temperature rose by 1 degree off the winter floor on the 29th. Normal temps will keep rising now until early August. Of course, that is climate; meanwhile we have to deal with weather, which doesn't look like it will provide anything like normal temps for at least a week.
We had 22" of snow on the 27th from Winter Storm Juno, the 4th largest snowfall in one day on record in Portland. Total snow for the month was 42", and 34" of that fell during the week of the 24th to 30th. Up until then, we hadn't had our driveway plowed since Thanksgiving (our association plows our driveways only when there are 4" or more of snow from a storm).
Following up on my post about the Harpswell differential, January once again had warmer temperatures in Harpswell than in Portland (by about 0.4 degrees, still smaller than average for January).
Most importantly, we have passed Plus One Day, to great celebration in my household! The purple line in the 3rd graph below shows that the normal average temperature rose by 1 degree off the winter floor on the 29th. Normal temps will keep rising now until early August. Of course, that is climate; meanwhile we have to deal with weather, which doesn't look like it will provide anything like normal temps for at least a week.