April 2013 - Monthly Climate Summary

Monthly Climate Summary - April 2013

Overview

Normal Departure Maps

Records

Upcoming Normals

April 2013 had below normal temperatures and above normal precipitation across the Missouri Ozarks and southeast Kansas.

	Springfield	Joplin	West Plains	Vichy
Highest Temperature of the Month	83	85	81	83
Average High Temperature	65.7	65.3	66.9	63.4
Lowest Temperature of the Month	31	32	30	28
Average Low Temperature	42.6	44.1	42.8	41.2
Average Mean Temperature	54.1	54.7	54.8	52.3
Depart from Normal	- 1.7	- 3.7	- 2.6	- 2.9
Rank	33rd coldest / 126	11th coldest / 86	19th coldest / 65	10th coldest / 65
Days with lows of 32 deg F or Lower	5	1	4	5
Days with lows of 0 deg F or Lower	0	0	0	0
Days with highs of 32 degrees or lower	0	0	0	0
Days with highs of 90 degrees or warmer	0	0	0	0

Precipitation (Inches)	5.64	6.65	5.21	6.20
Depart from Normal	+ 1.32	+ 2.18	+ 0.73	+ 1.98
Rank	22nd wettest / 126	16th wettest / 102	18th wettest / 65	8th wettest / 66
days of 0.01 or greater	9	12	9	9
days of 0.10 or greater	6	7	6	8
days of 0.50 or greater	4	6	3	6
days of 1.00 or greater	3	2	3	2
Monthly Snowfall	T

April 2013 Precipitation Departure from Normal

April 2013 Precipitation Departure from Normal

April 2013 Average Temperature Departure from Normal

April 2013 Average Temperature Departure from Normal

List of April 2013 Records
Date	Station	Record
April 18th	Joplin	Record rainfall of 1.43 inches breaks old record of 1.15 set in 1976.
April 18th	Vichy-Rolla	Record rainfall of 1.54 inches breaks the old record of 1.22 set in 1991.
April 20th	West Plains	Record low temperature of 30 degrees ties the old record set in 1953.
April 25th	Vichy-Rolla	Record low temperature of 34 degrees breaks the old record of 35 set in 1972.
April 25th	West Plains	Record low of 31 degrees ties the old record set in 1968.
April 26th	Springfield	Record rainfall of 1.74 inches breaks the old record of 0.96 set in 1980.

Normal Conditions for the Upcoming 3 Months
Springfield
	High	Low	Precip.	Snowfall
May	75.3	54.4	5.10	0.0
June	83.8	63.1	4.85	0.0
July	88.8	67.6	3.68	0.0
Joplin
	High	Low	Precip.	Snowfall
May	77.7	56.2	5.71	0.0
June	85.8	65.1	5.86	0.0
July	90.6	69.9	3.81	0.0
West Plains
	High	Low	Precip.
May	76.7	54.2	4.94
June	84.2	63.2	4.02
July	89.5	66.6	3.55
Vichy
	High	Low	Precip.
May	74.5	53.2	5.04
June	82.6	62.1	4.63
July	88.1	66.5	4.44