19 Apr 11 - Record late snowfall not only in Green
Bay, but in several several other Wisconsin cities.
Daily snowfall records for April 19:
CITY
SNOWFALL(IN) OLD RECORD(IN) YEAR
GREEN BAY(NWS) 9.9 1.5
1898
APPLETON 9.4
0.5 1924...1928
WISCONSIN RAPIDS 6.0 0.5
1982
STURGEON BAY 5.0 2.0
1925...1993
OSHKOSH 4.6 0.2
1953
STEVENS POINT 4.0 T
1914...1922
WAUSAU 1.9 1.5
1898
MERRILL 0.9
0.8 1928
Original post:
The National Weather Service reports that today's snowfall at Green Bay,
Wisconsin has set a record for so late in the season:
AS OF 9 PM THIS
EVENING...8.7 INCHES OF SNOW HAD FALLEN IN GREEN BAY. THE GREATEST DAILY
SNOWFALL EVER SO LATE IN THE SEASON.
TODAY`S SNOWFALL BRINGS THE SEASONAL TOTAL TO 91.2 INCHES... THE THIRD
GREATEST SEASONAL TOTAL EVER IN GREEN BAY...AND THE MOST SINCE THE WINTER OF
1889-1890.
This exceeds by half an
inch the 8.2" which fell 4 days later in the month on April 23, 1910.
Measurable snow has fallen as late as May 28, when 3" fell in 1947 at Green
Bay.
Daily records were also set or tied at Milwaukee and Madison:
RECORD SNOWFALL OF A TRACE
AT MILWAUKEE WI ON APRIL 19. TIES OLD RECORD OF A TRACE SET IN 1990.
RECORD PRECIPITATION OF 1.04 INCHES IN MADISON ON
APRIL 19. PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 0.93 INCHES IN 1993.
RECORD SNOWFALL OF 1.3 INCHES IN MADISON ON APRIL 19. PREVIOUS RECORD
OF 0.3 INCHES WAS SET IN 1953.
Posted by Steve Scolnik
http://capitalclimate.blogspot.com/2011/04/record-late-snowfall-in-green-bay.html
Thanks to Marc Morano for this link
