MONTHLY WEATHER OBSERVATIONS LAVALE MD FEBRUARY 2002 OBSERVER NATE MULLINS Special Observations: F=fog, T=thunder, H=hail, S=sleet, G=glaze, DW=damaging winds Observation time for this station is midnight. Temperature, °F Precipitation, In. Liquid Solid 7am 24-hour Temp Rain Snow/ Snow Date Max Min at Obs Equiv Ice Depth Special Obs. 1 62 31 31 .04 T F 2 38 23 23 3 45 19 35 4 35 15 15 .03 0.5 T DW 5 36 12 23 6 44 23 35 7 50 28 33 .02 0.2 T F 8 56 30 36 9 56 26 32 10 50 31 41 .11 11 41 28 28 .02 0.1 T 12 53 24 32 13 38 18 18 T T T 14 46 12 25 15 57 21 27 16 54 27 37 .02 17 39 21 21 .03 0.7 T 18 44 16 21 19 58 18 42 20 60 38 48 .01 21 56 38 38 .01 T 22 41 31 31 T T 23 44 21 21 24 53 18 29 25 67 25 33 26 60 31 31 .07 27 31 21 21 .04 1.5 1 28 32 19 19 T T 1 29 30 31 AVG 48.1 23.7 SUM 0.40" 3.0" N/A EXT 67 12 MAX 0.11" 1.5" 1" Date 25 5,14 DATE 10 27 27,28 Mean Monthly Temperature: 35.9F Mean Temp at Obs Time: 29.5F Number of days with: Fog: 2 Ice Pellets: 0 Glaze: 0 Thunder: 0 Hail: 0 Damaging Winds: 1 NOTES AND/OR SIGNIFICANT EVENTS: 1st: Mild through early afternoon, light showers produced .04" rain. Then very windy and turned much colder this evening. 4th: Snow showers early this morning and this afternoon, were briefly heavy, produced 0.5" snow total. Very strong winds blew the cover off some wooden chairs and damaged part of our pool cover apparatus. 7th: A bit of light snow early this morning just .2" fell, patchy fog. Became sunny and warmer this afternoon 8th: Warming trend continues, high today 56F. 10th: Couple brief PM showers and some light rain late this evening .11" fell. Windy late. 11th: Snow showers overnight, only 0.1", clearing & windy today 12th: Sunny, milder, still windy 13th: Sunny and breezy after early snow showers (trace) 16th: Mild and mostly sunny day, light rain shower 9-10pm and again toward midnight which was mixed with snow, breezy and turned colder late 17th: Snow showers this morning, 0.7" fell briefly covering the ground, then partially cleared and flurries through the late PM hours. Windy & blustery all day 19th: Mild high 58F. 20th: Very mild high 60F and windy at times. Yet another big rain system falls apart as it crosses the mountains, only light showers late produced .01" 21st: Light rain ends shortly after midnight, another cloudy, mild and breezy day high 56F. 25th: VERY mild high of 67F today. 26th: Rain showers this morning produced .07" rain, then variably cloudy, still mild,few PM sprinkles, cold front passed through--windy and turned colder during the evening hours 27th: Snow showers overnight and this morning produced 1.0" snow, melted during the day, but more snow showers this evening with another 0.5" for a total of 1.5". Cold and windy. 28th: Snow ended overnight; another chilly day high only 32F. COMMENTS: The drought continued at earnest as February yields a paltry .40" of liquid precipitation, making it one of the driest months ever. Snowfall was also scant with only 3.0" falling from numerous snow showers during the month. February was also much milder than average, although cooler than January, with an average temperature of 35.9F.