Rare Late March Day with High Temperature Below 30 Degrees (So Far)
March 20th, 2013 at 4:48 pm by Chad Evans under Chad's WLFI Weather Blog
So far, we have only reached 29.2 degrees at WLFI today. It is still unknown what the high as been at the Agronomy Farm. The airport has had 28 so far.
If we fail to reach 30, today would be only 31 of 143 Marches (since 1868) that have had one or more days that have failed to reach 30 degrees March 18-31 in the Lafayette/West Lafayette area.
The coldest high temperature every recorded during this time period (1868-2013) was 18 degrees on March 20, 1885 (we also had 6″ of snow on the ground). Second coldest was 19 degrees on March 21, 1872.
Years that have had a high temperature below 30 in West Lafayette/Lafayette area: 1868, 1872, 1873, 1875, 1876, 1879, 1883, 1885, 1887, 1888, 1892, 1894, 1904, 1906, 1912, 1914, 1923, 1939, 1940, 1951, 1955, 1960, 1964, 1965, 1974, 1979, 1983, 1996, 2001, 2002, 2013.
Records:
Lafayette 1868-1880
Purdue University 1881-1900
Purdue Ag Farm 1901-1947
Purdue University 1948-1953
Purdue Ag Farm 1954-2013
18z GFS had us in the 12″+ range…..
Ryan we are going to get it.
I feel like we are between models. GFS has snow north of us. Euro has it south.
On March 17, 1867 a farmer at Stockwell, IN in Tippecanoe County recorded a high of only 16 degrees that day and a low of 4
New gfs run looks really good for snow lovers
Still a few days out though
Spring is on hold spring bunnies the Stoogies have requested another snow and guess what. Here it comes.
We gonna get shalacked folks!!!!
Snowhaters sorry about your luck, looks like the little green guy didnt bring early spring, lol
I would like to vote to fire the ground hog!!! He doesnt deserve hus job anymore he lied to us…
Would enjoy thunderstorms more at this point. I love snow, but it’s spring now!
Poor little groundhog had wishful thinking..
Sure wass wishful terri
Melissa it’s Mother Nature and the Stoogies
Interesting site here: http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/~ckarsten/bufkit/image_loader.phtml?site=klaf&nam=on&nam_mos=on&namm=on&gfs_mos=on&gfs=on&gfsm_mos=on&gfsm=on&nws=on&rap=on&obs=on&con=on&ratio=13&max_t=on&cobb=on&compaction=on&mean_mt=on&max_mt=on&mean=on
Ryan that’s good information some of the snow total’s are impressive but the thing I noticed was the wind speeds one model was showing 45 mph gust.
Weather channel biting at this storm. Not sure what to think here.
Yeah Bill, almost “blizzard-like” conditions somewhere close here.
The blizzard is coming and the once quiet blog is alive again. That is what what we need to get this blog going a late season spring blizzard. Has this ever happened ?