Weather summary for Fairhaven, Massachusetts/January 1996.
Temperature-- Mean: 29.4F (departure-minus 1.1 deg.)
Average high: 37.9F
Average low: 20.8F
Month's high: 56F on 19th
Month's low: 0F on 6th
Days with high 32F or below: 8
Days with low 32F or below: 28
Days with low 0F or below: 1
Precipation-- Month's total (includes melted): 6.08"
(departure-plus 1.87")
Days with 0.01" or more: 18
Days with 1.00" or more: 1
Max. 24 hr. total: 1.59" on 8th
Month's snow: 27.6" (departure-plus 17.0")
Season's snow: 40.8" (departure-plus 26.3")
Days with 0.1" or more: 9
Days with 1.0" or more: 6
Days with 6.0" or more: 1
Max. 24 hr. snowfall: 15.6" on 8th
Barometer-- High 30.71" on 26th
Low 29.25" on 8th
Misc.-- Days with thunder: 0
Days with fog: 13
Max. wind gust: 37 mph on 8th and 19th
Max. snow depth: 22" on 10th
Snow depth days*: month 218, season 291
Comments: The "Blizzard of '96" dumped 17.5" of snow here.
Monthly snowfall of 27.6" was the snowiest month since 27.8" fell
in February, 1994....0 degrees on the 6th was the lowest temperature
since -2F was recorded on February 16, 1994...Windy month--gusts
to 30 on the 6th, 37 on 8th and 19th, 33 on the 24th, 35 on the 27th...
* Note--Snow depth days are a sum total of daily snow depth
measurements and is an indication of how "snowbound" a location is.
Regards--Dennis