WEATHER STATISTICS NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2006 January 6, 2007
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In Burlington, Vermont:
42.8 degrees = mean temperature in November 2006, tying the record for the second warmest November on record.
32.6 degrees = mean temperature in December 2006, tying the record for the second warmest December on record.
12 inches = inches of snow that has fallen in Burlington this winter. Normal is 27.5 inches by January 4
7 days = number of days that have remained at or below freezing this winter.
21 degrees = the lowest temperature in November 2006
-3 degrees = the lowest temperature recorded in any November.
8 degrees = the lowest temperature recorded in December 2006
-29 degrees = the lowest temperature recorded in any December
A long period of warm, wet weather started in 2005:
46.4 degrees = mean temperature in 2005 (departure 1.2)
39.41 inches = precipitation in 2005 (departure 3.36)
48.1 degrees = mean temperature in 2006 (departure 2.9)
46.99 = precipitation in 2006 (departure 10.94)
2006 was the third-warmest and third-wettest year on record in Burlington.
1891 = warmest year (mean temperature 48.5 degrees)
1998 = wettest year (precipitation 50.42 inches)
The last time temperatures in Burlington fell to:
0 degrees = February 26, 2006
10 below = January 28, 2005
20 below = January 15, 2004
25 below = January 29, 1994
(National Weather Service, South Burlington)
“NORMAL” WEATHER January 7, 2002
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Burlington is a slightly warmer place than it was, according to the National Weather Service’s shifting concept of normal. All it took to warm the city up was a recalculation of weather statistics. On January 1, 2002, the National Weather Service began using the average conditions from 1971 to 2000 to define “normal” weather. Before meteorologists used a 1961-1990 average. The 1960s were relatively cool. The 1990s were warm. As a result, a normal year in Burlington is 0.7 degrees warmer than it was.
