An Amazing January. Cold & Snowy!

January 2009.  It will go down in the history books.  You’ll talk about it to your kids and grand kids.  It was almost as rough as the Blizzard of 1978, which people still talk about today.  Unfortunately for me, I don’t remember that January or I could compare it to this January.

January 2009 kind of snuck up on us.  It was only until the last week when we started thinking it could make a run at 1978.  An unusual 5 inches fell over a weekend, and then, of course the big storm last Wednesday, which also came at us last minute.  Typically, we see those storms from about 7 days out, however this kind of made a turn toward us about a day or 2 out only.

Here are the numbers for January 2009 in Cleveland.  Many thanks to the great people out at National Weather Service for keeping our stats:

We had 21 days where our highs didn’t reach the freezing mark, and only 2 days we reached 40!

Snow-wise, we had 40.5″.  The record was 42.8″ in 1978.  It was more than 23 inches above normal!  Second most all time.

And, for the month, we were about 5 – 7 degrees below normal.  It was a cold and snowy month.

Here’s to a better February!  I’m Meteorologist Jason Nicholas.