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Heavy Rain is Likely Across the Mid-Atlantic States Today Along With Potentially Damaging Wind Gusts; Critical Fire Weather in the Great Basin

Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms are expected today across the Mid-Atlantic and forecast to contain heavy to excessive rainfall. Numerous instances of flash flooding are possible in southern Virginia and north-central North Carolina. Severe thunderstorms are also possible across the northern Great Plains today. Elevated to Critical Fire Weather located across the Intermountain West. Read More >

.THE CALENDAR YEAR OF 2014 WAS COOLER AND DRIER THAN NORMAL AT DULUTH MN...

THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE YEAR WAS 37.4 DEGREES WHICH WAS 2.3 DEGREES
BELOW THE NORMAL OF 39.7 DEGREES TYING THIS FOR THE 20TH COOLEST CALENDAR
YEAR ON RECORD.

30.63 INCHES OF LIQUID EQUIVALENT PRECIPITATION WAS RECORDED FOR THE
YEAR. THIS IS 0.33 INCHES BELOW THE NORMAL OF 30.96 MAKING THIS THE
94TH DRIEST CALENDAR YEAR ON RECORD. 111.2 INCHES OF SNOW FELL FOR
THE YEAR WHICH WAS 25.1 INCHES ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 86.1 INCHES
MAKING THIS THE 11TH SNOWIEST CALENDAR YEAR IN STATION HISTORY.

.THE CALENDAR YEAR OF 2014 WAS COLDER AND WETTER THAN NORMAL AT INTERNATIONAL
FALLS MN...

THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE YEAR WAS 34.5 DEGREES WHICH WAS 3.0
DEGREES BELOW THE NORMAL OF 37.5 DEGREES MAKING THIS THE 2ND COLDEST
CALENDAR YEAR ON RECORD.

30.22 INCHES OF LIQUID EQUIVALENT PRECIPITATION WAS RECORDED FOR THE
YEAR. THIS IS 6.00 INCHES ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 24.22 MAKING THIS THE
10TH WETTEST CALENDAR YEAR ON RECORD. 83.9 INCHES OF SNOW FELL FOR
THE YEAR WHICH WAS 12.9 INCHES ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 71.0 INCHES MAKING
THIS THE 15TH SNOWIEST CALENDAR YEAR IN STATION HISTORY.