January and Football are Both Done!

What a super bowl game that was yesterday huh? That marked the end of the football season and this weekend put the first weather month of 2015 in the books as well.

This somewhat warm winter continues with above average temps for January. The average low ran 3 degrees above normal with 35.36 and the daily average high ran nearly 5 above at 48.71. That is a January average daily high of darn near 50 degrees. What is this, Northern California? No it is not, but the weather is sure trying to fake us out. We managed to hit a downright toasty 62.2 degrees on the 24th and that is the warmest January temperature I have recorded in January since I started keeping records in 2001. It is also only the second 60 plus reading in January over that time period. We had a mild 46.2 overnight low on the 28th which was the warmest of the month. The coldest temperature reading came on New Year's Day with a 19.5 degree reading which is legitimately chilly but no where near a record for the date. The coldest daytime high was a mild 39.3 degrees on the 2nd of January also no where near any records. January delivered 9 days with sub freezing temps and an amazing 13 days with highs above 50 degrees!

On the rainfall front we were kind of dry. I measured just 3.62 inches which is about half of a typical January. I did have one drenching deluge on the 17th when 1.9 inches came down. I did observe a few days with mixed precipitation but nary a flake of snow that stuck to the ground. That early dusting in mid November remains the only sticking snow of the season.

January was a warm month but weather-wise it was rather uneventful. Get out and soak it up my friends, soak it up.