Halloween Weather at West Lafayette Tonight……….Back to 1887
October 31st, 2012 at 2:15 pm by Chad Evans under Chad's WLFI Weather Blog
FORECAST FOR HALLOWEEN 2012:
HALLOWEEN CLIMATE INFO FOR WEST LAFAYETTE………1887-1900 Purdue University……1901-Present Purdue Agronomy Farm
HIGHEST HALLOWEEN TEMPERATURE: 83° in 1950 (second warmest 79° in 1933 & 1935)
LOWEST HALLOWEEN TEMPERATURE: 21° in 1908
LEAST TEMPERATURE MOVEMENT FROM HIGH & LOW FOR THE DAY: 1929 – High 65° Low 62° (0.07″ rainfall that day)
HIGHEST AVERAGE TEMPERATURE: 70° in 1900 (High 77° Low 63° [0.12" rainfall that day])
Second highest 68.5° in 1953 (High 83° Low 54°)
HIGHEST LOW TEMPERATURE: 63° in 1900
LOWEST HIGH TEMPERATURE: 38° in 1954
LOWEST AVERAGE TEMPERATURE: 32.5° in 1906 (High 42° Low 23°) & 1954 (High 38° Low 27°)
GREATEST TEMP SPREAD FOR THE DAY: 37° in 1938 (High 68° Low 31°)
MOST SNOW ON THE GROUND AT OBSERVATION TIME: 1″ 1917
MOST SNOWFALL ON HALLOWEEN: 0.5″ 1917
WETTEST: 1919 – 1.63″
Sandy has stirred up the climate change debate again. But it seems to me that this kind of weather extreme has been here, done that…if only one looks back further than the 1980 ‘s! I am open minded, but am not prone to jumping on the climate change band wagon. Still skeptical.