PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
 940 AM MDT MON MAY 28 2012
 
 ...LATE MAY SNOWFALL AND COLD TEMPERATURES AT BILLINGS...
 
 THE BILLINGS AIRPORT RECEIVED 3.5 INCHES OF SNOWFALL THIS PAST
 FRIDAY NIGHT. THE TOTAL STRADDLED MIDNIGHT...WITH 2.2 INCHES ON
 THE EVENING OF MAY 25TH AND 1.3 INCHES DURING THE EARLY MORNING OF
 THE 26TH. THE 2-DAY TOTAL OF 3.5 INCHES WAS THE 2ND MOST ON RECORD
 SO LATE IN THE SEASON...BEHIND ONLY THE 4.0 INCHES THAT FELL ON
 MAY 31ST 1951. THE 2012 SNOW EVENT WAS ALSO THE LATEST MEASURABLE
 SNOW TO OCCUR AT BILLINGS SINCE 1975.
 
 HERE ARE THE ONLY MEASURABLE SNOWFALLS RECORDED AT THE BILLINGS
 AIRPORT ON OR AFTER MAY 25TH SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1934:
 
 MAY 31 1951   4.0 INCHES
 MAY 25 2012   2.2 INCHES
 JUNE 8 1950   2.0 INCHES
 MAY 26 2012   1.3 INCHES
 MAY 25 1975   0.3 INCHES
 
 TEMPERATURES FROM MAY 25TH THROUGH THE 27TH WERE ALSO UNSEASONABLY
 COLD. IN FACT...WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 40.7 DEGREES AT
 BILLINGS...THIS WAS THE COLDEST 3-DAY STRETCH SO LATE IN THE
 SPRING SINCE A PERIOD OF COLD WEATHER FROM MAY 30 THROUGH JUNE 3RD
 1951...DURING WHICH THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WAS ONLY 40.3 DEGREES
 OVER A 5-DAY PERIOD. FURTHERMORE...THE LOW TEMPERATURE DROPPED TO
 31 DEGREES ON THE 25TH AND 26TH...THE COLDEST TEMPERATURES
 RECORDED AT THE BILLINGS AIRPORT SO LATE IN THE SEASON SINCE 1947.
 HERE THE TOP 5 COLDEST TEMPERATURES OBSERVED ON OR AFTER MAY 25TH:
 
 27 DEGREES   MAY 28 1947
 31 DEGREES   MAY 26 2012
 31 DEGREES   MAY 25 2012
 32 DEGREES   MAY 31 1982
 32 DEGREES   JUNE 13 1969