Looking back at 2011

This data is for Barron County WI only….
This was one wild year in terms of the weather…..
We will looks at how much snow has falling in this past year….This may be a little confusing, as we will look at every month we have snow….
We will look at how many thunderstorm days we had.
We will look at how many severe thunderstorm days we had…

First off we will look at the crazy temp ride we had…

Many call the year 2011 a year without a spring….Well they were sure right about that….From Jan through July temps averaged well below normal….
We even had snow in May more on that latter.

Time to list the months and what we saw…..

***JANUARY***

Temps were colder than normal…We had 22.50 inches of snow…No thunderstorm/thundersnow days.

***FEBUARY***

Temps were colder than normal….We had 12.50 inches of snow….No thunderstorm/thundersnow days..

***MARCH***

Temps averaged out to be colder than normal….We had 14.00 inches of snow…We had 3 thunderstorm days…

***APRIL***

Temps were colder than average….We had 7.50 inches of snow…We had 3 thunderstorm days… 1 severe thunderstorm day….Total thunderstorms were 4.

***MAY***

Temps were colder than normal….We had snow on the 1st and 2nd only a trace, nonetheless it was snow…We had 5 thunderstorm days…We had 2 severe thunderstorm days…Total thunderstorm days 7.

***JUNE***

Temps did average out slightly below normal, even though we had 102.7 on the 7th First part of June was warm, however temps cooled right back off for the rest of the month. We had 10 thunderstorm days…No severe thunderstorm days…Total thunderstorm days 10….

***JULY***

Temps were slightly cooler than normal..What was strange about this month was our overnight lows were warmer than average, while our daytime highs were cooler than normal…..We had 9 thunderstorm days…We had 6 severe thunderstorm days..Total thunderstorm days 15…

***AUGUST***

Temps were near normal still slightly below normal….We had 8 thunderstorm days…We had 1 severe thunderstorm day…Total thunderstorm days 9….

***SEPTEMBER***

Temps were slightly below normal…. We had 4 thunderstorm days….No severe thunderstorm days…Total thunderstorm days 4….We had a trace of snow on the 15th.

***OCTOBER***

Temps were warmer than normal….We had 2 thunderstorm days….No severe thunderstorm days….Total thunderstorm days 2… We had less than ¼ inch of snow on the 27th.

***NOVEMBER***

Temps were warmer than normal….We had 4.50 inches of snow….We had 1 thunderstorm day which was thundersnow….. Total thunderstorm days 1.

***DECEMBER***

Temps were warmer than normal…. We had 18.50 inches of snow…No thunderstorm days…Our first subzero readings happened this month….on the 9th and again on the 10th
***RECAP***
Temps for the year 2011 believe it or not were slightly below to near normal….
We had a total of 55 thunderstorm days…Out of those days we had 10 severe thunderstorm days..
We had 79.50 inches of snow for the year 2011……….
There you have it 2011 review…..
ONCE AGAIN THIS IS FOR BARRON COUNTY WI ONLY….THIS INFO COMES FROM OUR RECORDS HERE AT THE WEATHER CENTER……