Record Lows - 2005

Record low temperatures in the United States  

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  I'm including extreme rainfall here because that's     
 what causes ice ages ... excess precipitation. If        
 you want to know how much snow would fall          
 if a rainstorm should change to snow, just add a     
 zero. (One inch of rain - add a zero - will turn            
                   to 10 inches of snow.) Rainfall has increased so      
 dramatically that I'm only including accumulations  
 of two inches or more.                                                     

Date

City

Degrees
Fahrenheit

Snowfall in one day:
Milbank, SD---10”
Lead, SD---6”
Eureka, SD---5”

Snowfall in one day:
Watauga , ND ---6”
Amidon , ND ---5”

Snowfall totals:
Plaisted , ME ---38”
Madawaska , ME ---37”
Fort Kent , ME ---36”
Caribou, ME---31.7”
Portage , ME ---31”

Snowier winters in Minnesota - 14 Dec 05 - Despite what your grandparents might 
say about old-time winters, average snowfall records show modern Minnesota winters 
are actually snowier than those of yore.

Seasonal snowfall on average has increased from less than 40 inches in the 1890s to more than 55 inches in the Twin Cities. Increases have been even more pronounced in west-central Minnesota , according to Mark Seeley, University of Minnesota extension climatologist and meteorologist. http://www.in-forum.com/ap/index.cfm?page=view&id=D8EFT8H00

Newark , NJ
Islip , NY
New York City , NY

11
12 tie
16

Newark , NJ
New York City , NY

13
16

Snowfall in one day:
Duluth , MN ---15.5”
Austin , MN ---8”
Ossian, IA---8”
Minneapolis , MN ---5”
Green Bay , WI ---5”  

Williamsport , PA
Reading , PA
Harrisburg , PA
Trenton , NJ
Newark , NJ

-1
2
4
8
11 tie

Snowfall in one day:
Two Harbors, MN---16.5”
Lakewood , MN ---13”
Silverbay , MN ---11.5”
Hermantown , MN ---9”

Winstead , MN ---6.5”
Iowa Falls , IA ---6”
Fort Dodge , IA ---5”

Coldest December since late 1800s - December 2005 is on pace to become one of the 10 coldest Decembers  in more than 100 years, says Joe Bastardi, senior meteorologist with Accuweather.com,

"The cold is widespread, with below-normal temperatures recorded from eastern Washington and Oregon south into Texas and into the Northeast," said the weather service. Examples include: Omaha , Nebraska (17.5 degrees below normal); Indianapolis , Indiana (14.1 degrees below normal); Chicago , Illinois (13.9 degrees below normal); and Denver , Colorado (11.9 degrees below normal). 
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47887

The fast-moving storm dropped more than a foot of snow in some places, with Northern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire hardest hit. Snow in those areas fell at a rate of 5 inches per hour at some points. Littleton , Massachusetts , recorded more than 15 inches of snowfall, while Bennington , NH. , got nearly 18 inches. Cambridge reported 8 inches and Winthrop had recorded 5 inches as of late yesterday afternoon.

Forecasters said the severity of the storm was greater than anticipated.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/12/10/snowstorm_with_thunder_surprises_area

Big Piney, WY
Laramie , WY
Rawlins , WY
Alliance , NE
Cheyenne , WY

-35
-29
-26
-23
-20

West Yellowstone , MT
Laramie , WY
Rawlins , WY
Cheyenne , WY
Kalispell , MT

-45
-27
-24
-20
-19

Snowfall in one day:
Oneida , NY ---13”
Cicero , NY ---11.5”
Rome , NY ---9.5”
Deerfield , NY ---8”

Record lows from Rockies to Midwest – Temperatures plummeted below zero on Tuesday throughout the Rocky Mountains and Midwest . In Chicago , temperatures dipped to a low of 4 degrees, beating the old record of 6 degrees set in 1895. In Bettendorf and Davenport , Iowa , and Moline and Rock Island , Ill. , temperatures fell to minus 4 on Monday. The previous record low of minus 2 was set in 1886. 

Temperatures in Casper , Wyoming dropped below zero, and temperatures in Gunnison, CO., fell to  24 below zero on Monday. Forecasts called for a low of minus 25 in Steamboat Springs , Colorado.  

Jackson, Wyo., was expecting an overnight low of minus 17 while the forecast for Bozeman, Montana was minus 13. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/06/D8EB4SP06.html

Snowfall in one day:
Suttons Bay, MI---17"
Greilickville, MI---15"
Interlocken, MI---15"
Traverse City, MI---13"
Lake Leelanau, MI---13"

Huron, SD
Sioux Falls , SD
Mobridge , SD

15 tie
-13
-10

More than 150 miles of I-70 was closed from Denver to the Kansas , while 60 miles of I-80 was closed in Nebraska , from North Platte to Lexington . Steamboat Springs , Colorado , received 26 inches of new snow. Amarillo , Texas , in the Texas Panhandle, reported 3 inches of snow.

With a second storm system moving into the Northwest, the weather service issued a heavy snow warning for areas including the Columbia River Gorge between Oregon and Washington . http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10234390/

Rainfall in one day:
Bruns wick , ME ---2.86”
Millinocket , ME ---2.81”
Bangor , ME ---2.18”
Caribou, ME---2.03”

Austin , TX

Snowfall in one day:
Marquette , MI ---12.6”
Montreal , WI ---5.5”  

Rainfall in one day:
Columbus AFB, MS---3.17”
Polk , LA ---3.14”
Ypsilanti, MI-2.55
Alexandria , LA ---2.40”
Lawrenceville , IL ---2.26”
Detroit , MI ---2.21”
Defiance , OH ---2.20”
Bloomington , IN ---2.13”

With three feet of snow on the ground and another 3-4 feet expected over the weekend, Washington’s Mount Baker Ski Area will open on Nov 8th.  
http://www.mtbaker.us/

Stevens Pass Ski Area is expected to open by Wednesday, Nov 9. http://www.onthesnow.com/WA/427/weather.html

Meteorologists expect the Cascades to receive as much snow by end
end of this weekend as they received during all of last winter.

“Absolutely incredible," the website says. " The 24 hour snowfall record for 
October, which stood for 36 years, shattered a mere 8 days ago, was broken 
again this morning. The summit picked up 27.5 inches of snow again with this 
latest storm, 25.7 of it in 24 hours, breaking the old record of 25.5 inches set 
on October 17th. We've had 72 inches of snow now in the last 12 days, 
nearly 25 % of a normal year's total!!!

“More amazingly, the infamous record for total monthly precipitation set 
in February of 1969 at 25.56 inches has also been eclipsed, as we sit at 
27.85 inches of combined rain and melted snow now for the month of October.

“. . . I can't find the words to describe the amount of snow on the summit 
anymore. I've used them all on the past storms earlier this month, and now
they seem horribly insufficient. October is usually a month of transition, of 
freezes and thaws, and only averages a mere foot of snow. NEVER has 
such a complete snow pack built so quickly or so early on Mount Washington .
The forest service has even issued an avalanche bulletin on the 5 scale today!” 
See these comments at:
http://www.mountwashington.org/
          Thanks to Richard James for this info.

Greenwood , MS
Greenville , MS
Tallahassee , FL
Austin , TX
Apalachicola , FL

29
33
33
33
37

Snowfall in one day:
Randolph, H---14”
Terra Alta , WV ---12”
Norwich , NY ---10”
Oakland , MD ---10”
Killington , VT ---7”

Early Nor’easter brings winter to the Northeast
An early nor’easter pounded beaches with 20-foot waves,
knocked out power to thousands of people, and brought a taste of winter
to the Northeast. Some areas got their first snowfall of the season.

“Some lower elevations of New Hampshire got their first slushy, mushy,
snowfall of the season, as did northwest New Jersey . The weather service
 issued a winter storm watch for Massachusetts ’ Berkshires, and snow also
was likely in the mountains of Maine .

“Atop New Hampshire ’s Mount Washington , the Northeast’s tallest peak
at 6,288 feet, meteorologists at the Mount Washington Observatory measured
100 mph wind and near-blizzard conditions in fog and blowing snow.

“The storm system came on top of record snowfall earlier in the month, when
Mount Washington got 34 inches of snow in one weekend.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9812110/

St. Joseph , MO
Austin , TX
Del Rio , TX

25
32
39

Mount Washington beats two snow records  - Mount Washington, NH  
received 34 inches of snow over the weekend, beating the record for the 
most snowfall from a single October storm. It also beat the record for the 
most snow in one day in October.

"Basically, we've had white-out conditions for the last three days," weather 
observer David Balfrey said. It looks like January or February, with 12-foot 
drifts and tons of ice that has to be chipped off their instruments. 

Balfrey and his fellow observers are confident they will beat the record for 
October snowfall. They are only 5 1/2 inches short of the record of 39.8 inches 
set in 2000 and more snow is on the way. "We are pretty sure we'll get another 
four or five inches before the end of month," he said.

See the rest of this article at:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2005/10/18/mount_washing ton_beats_24_hour_snowfall_record/
                 (Thanks to Rob Dorman for this info.) 

Rainfall in 36 hours:
Del Rio , TX ---7.54”
Rainfall in three days:
Westhampton Beach , NY ---9.59”
Farmingdale , NY ---7.56”
New York City , NY ---7.55”
Islip , NY ---6.78”
New Haven , CT ---5.80”  

"It is, on our records, probably one of the earliest ones, as far as our recorded history goes, in 126, 130 years," said Sam Walker, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Bismarck .

As much as 11 inches of snow fell in southeastern Montana . Billings received 10.8 inches of snow, almost one inch over the old record of 9.9 inches, said meteorologist Tom Humphrey.

Snowbird Ski Resort in Utah received its first snow of the year, with more on the way.
http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=104891&section=news
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051006/D8D2963O4.html

Snowfall in one day:
 Carlyle , MT ---18”
Weston , WY ---15”
Billings , MT ---11”
Alta , UT ---10”
Sheridan , WY ---8”
Snowbird, UT---8”

Rainfall in one day:
Hayward , WI ---11”
Savannah , GA ---6.49”
Hilton Head, SC---5.74”
Tybee Island , GA ---5.22”
Hinesville , GA ---5.12”
Minneapolis , MN ---4.62”
St. Cloud , MN ---4.07”
Beaufort , SC ---3.99”
Ashland , WI ---3.20”
Alexandria , MN ---2.58”

Rainfall in one day:
Lake Quinalt , WA ---7.28”
Forks, WA---4.20”
Stampede Pass , WA ---3.33”

Rainfall in two days
Fort Smith, AR ---4.46”
Dayton, OH---4.45"

Rainfall in one day:
St. Augustine , FL ---2.94”
Jacksonville , FL ---2.30”

Katrina totals
Bush, LA---10.5”
Hancock , MS ---9.84”
Pearl River , LA ---9.79”
Kenner , LA ---9.72”
Hattiesburg , MS ---7.33”
Red Bay , AL ---6.44”
Lima , OH ---5.84”
Bowling Green , KY ---5.00”
Malone , NY ---4.92”
Bradford , PA ---4.25”

Katrina total rainfall:
Columbus , MS ---5.78”
Tupelo , MS ---4.47”
Mobile , AL ---3.80”
Muscle Shoals, AL ---3.74”
Bowling Green , KY ---3.51”
Hopkinsville , KY ---3.12”
Clarksville , TN ---2.93”
Dyersburg , TN ---2.85”
Nashville , TN ---2.34”
Troy , AL ---2.80

Rainfall in 30 hours
El Dorado , KS ---9.03”
Rosalia , KS ---9.02”
Chanute , KS ---6.46”
Beaumont , KS ---5.70”
Emporia , KS ---4.15”

Houlton, ME
Caribou, ME

34
39

Rainfall in 30 hours:
McCallen TX---3.46”
Harlingen , TX ---2.84”
Brownsville , TX ---2.56”

Rainfall in three days:
West Atlanta, GA---9.92”
Marietta, GA---7.42”

Dennis Rainfall totals
Bristol, FL---8.30”
Buena Vista, GA ---8.18”
Tallahassee, FL---6.64”
Camden, AL---6.27”

Rainfall in one day:
Peachtree City, GA---6.38”
Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, GA---5.38”
West Atlanta, GA---5.27”
Marietta, GA---4.72”