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Topeka, KS
Weather Forecast Office
If you felt like there wasn't much of a winter in northeast Kansas, you weren't alone, and the statistics bear it out. Climate records over 128 years in Topeka show it to be one of the warmest and least snowy cold seasons on record.
For meteorological record keeping, December, January and February comprise the Winter months. For that three month period, the average temperature was 37.1 degrees. This made it the 5th warmest winter on record in Topeka. The warmest occured in the winter of 1991-92 when the temperature averaged 38.6 degrees.
Just 4 years ago, the very mild cold season of 2011-12 set the record for the least amount of snow in Topeka, with only 3.1 inches measured from October through May. For the cold season that just ended, we received only 4.9 inches, which makes it the 5th lowest snowfall total for a cold season.
See below for a listing of the 20 warmest winters, and 20 least snowy cold seasons on record in Topeka.
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1. 20 Least Snowy Cold Seasons at Topeka 2. 20 Warmest Winters at Topeka (Dec,Jan,Feb) |
US Dept of Commerce
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Weather Service
Topeka, KS
1116 NE Strait Avenue
Topeka, KS 66616-1667
785-234-2592
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