Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2010
Wintry, yes, but hardly historic
From Staff Reports
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You probably don't need a meteorologist to tell you this, but it was an unusually cold and snowy winter.
But we've had worse, according to the National Weather Service.
It was the sixth-coldest winter since modern record-keeping began in 1944 at what is now Raleigh-Durham International Airport, and the coldest since 1978, though the winters of 2003 and 2004 were close.
The average temperature for December, January and February was 38.6 degrees as measured at RDU, about 2.5 degrees below normal. The 7.2 inches of snow that fell during that three-month period was 1.4 inches more than normal. That made this only the 21st-snowiest winter on record in the Triangle, though it was the 12th-wettest.
