CXUS55 KGGW 020234 CLAGGW CLIMATE REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW, MT 650 PM MST MON JAN 01 2024 ................................... ...THE GLASGOW MT CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE YEAR OF 2023... CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD: 1991 TO 2020 CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD: 1893 TO 2023 WEATHER OBSERVED NORMAL DEPART LAST YEAR'S VALUE DATE(S) VALUE FROM VALUE NORMAL .............................................................. TEMPERATURE (F) RECORD HIGH 113 07/31/1900 LOW -59 02/15/1936 HIGHEST 107 MM MM LOWEST -18 MM MM MEAN 45.6 PRECIPITATION (INCHES) RECORD MAXIMUM 22.96 2011 TOTALS 11.90 13.44 -1.54 SNOWFALL (INCHES) RECORDS TOTAL 83.4 2011 TOTALS 46.5 40.7 51.2 DEGREE DAYS HEATING TOTAL 7754 COOLING TOTAL 830 .............................................................. - INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS. R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED. MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING. T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT. && 2023 STARTED OFF NEAR NORMAL FOR JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, ALTHOUGH JANUARY WAS DRIER THAN NORMAL. MARCH WAS VERY WINTER-LIKE AND ENDED UP WITH 18.3 INCHES OF SNOW. IT WAS THE THIRD SNOWIEST MARCH ON RECORD. THE MONTH AVERAGED 14.8 DEGREES COLDER THAN NORMAL AND WAS COLDER THAN FEBRUARY. APRIL HAD WILD TEMPERATURE SWINGS BUT ENDED UP COOLER AND SLIGHTLY DRIER THAN NORMAL. MAY WAS WARM AND WET. PRECIPITATION TOTALED 3.89 INCHES AND THE 14TH WETTEST MAY ON RECORD. THE NEXT FOUR MONTHS WERE WARMER AND DRIER THAN NORMAL WHICH ALLOWED SOME DROUGHT IMPACTS TO RETURN. THIS INCLUDED THE GRASSHOPERS. OCTOBER THEN WAS COOLER AND SNOWIER THAN NORMAL. A STORM SYSTEM BROUGHT 14 INCHES OF SNOW FROM OCTOBER 24TH TO THE 26TH, MAKING IT THE GREATEST 3-DAY SNOWFALL TOTAL FOR OCTOBER, PASSING THE OLD RECORD SET IN 2008 OF 13.6 INCHES. IT WAS ALSO THE SNOWIEST OCTOBER ON RECORD. WITH A GLOBAL EL NINO CLIMATE PATTERN IN PLACE, NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER WERE WARMER AND DRIER THAN NORMAL. IN FACT, DECEMBER WAS THE WARMEST DECEMBER ON RECORD. THERE WERE 17 DAILY TEMPERATURE RECORDS BROKEN DURING THE YEAR. 15 WERE WARM ONES, 2 COLD ONES. $$