January – a wet one
Posted Feb 4, 2013 07:38:35 AM.
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According to the University of Waterloo Weather Station, this January was the fifth wettest in history.
The overall temperature for the month was 3.3 degrees above average. Three days of the month were more then 10 degrees below average, and five days were 12 degrees above. The high of 14.2°C on the 30th was tied for the second warmest January day the region has seen since records began almost 100 years ago.
The total amount of precipitation for the month was 114.7 mm, far surpassing the average of 64.4 mm.
We were also low on our average for snow in the region, with a total snowfall of only 22.5 cm, only about half of 43.5 cm January average.
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