Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Weather Extremes 2013

Date listed is the date that I found ice in the water saucers in the yard:
January 7* - Ice in the bird bath
January 14 - Ice in the bird bath
January 16  - Ice in the bird bath
February 7 - high temp: 85 (record)
March 16 - high temp: 86 (record)
March 18 - high temp: 90 (record)
April 20 - Cold Front - low temp: 41
April 24 - low temp: 45
May 3 - Cold Front - low temp: 44 (record)
May 4 - low temp: 46
May 5 - high temp: 79; low temp: 51
May 6 - high temp: 76; low temp 50
May 17 - high temp: 95 (first day of mid 90s temp)
Mid May - Mid June : Gloriously average
June 25 - high temp: 101 (first day of triple digits)
June 28 - high temp: 106 (record)
June 29 - high temp: 108 (record)
July 13 - high temp: 105 (tied the record)
July 17 - Cold Front - high temp: 78
August 14 - 107 (record)
September 16 - 99 (tied the record)
September 20 - Cold Front - high temp: 81 (and rain!)
September 21 - Cold Front - high temp:  83
October 13 - RAIN!  While I only got 4" or so, South Austin got a foot!
October 19 - Cold Front - high temp:  69
October 30 - RAIN!  South Austin/Wimberly got close to a foot.  Because Wimberly got a foot, and south Austin got a foot, it made for some pretty massive flooding in Onion Creek.
November 8 - Cold Front - high temp: 66
November 12 - Cold Front - high temp: 61, low: 44
November 13 - Cold Front - high temp: 57, low: 34 (pulled in all tenders and covered peppers, said goodbye to eggplant and tomatoes)
November  14 - low temp: 33
November 16 - Heat Wave - high temp: 81, low: 63
November 17 - high temp: 90 (record)
November 18 - high temp: 80
November 22 - Cold Front - high temp: 74 (above normal), low temp: 36 (below normal) (pulled in all tenders, said goodbye to the peppers)
November 23 - high: 43, low: 36
November 24 - high: 43, low: 35
November 25 - high: 40, low: 35
November 26 - high: 58, low: 38
November 27 - high: 52, low: 33 - (peppers have finally looked like they froze)
November 28 - high: 53, low: 32 (first official freeze)
November 29 - low: 34
December 1 - high: 73 (above normal), low: 53
December 2 - high: 83 (not a record, but 20 degrees above normal)
December 3 - high: 85 (not a record, but 20 degrees above normal)
December 4 - high: 75 (10 degrees above normal), low: 56 (10 degrees above normal)
December 5 - low: 34
December 6 - high: 38, low: 30
December 7 - high: 31, low: 27
December 8 - low: 28
December 9 - high: 40
December 10 - high: 48, low: 29
December 11 - low: 30
December 12 - low: 32
December 15 - low: 34
December 16 - low: 34
December 17 - high: 74
December 19 - high: 78, low: 55
December 20 - low: 67 (yes, a LOW of 67)
December 22 - low: 32
December 23 - low: 31
December 30 - high: 44, low: 35

* = I didn't start counting until the 7th

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