MONTHLY WEATHER DATA AND OBS - LAVALE MD							
DECEMBER 1998
OBSERVER NATE MULLINS
							
Special Observations:  F=fog, T=thunder, H=hail,							
S=sleet, G=glaze, DW=damaging winds							
Observation time for this station is midnight.	
						
	Temperature, °F		Precipitation, In.			
			Liquid	Solid	
	24-hour		Rain	Snow/	
Date	Max	Min	Equiv	Ice	Special Obs.

1	61	38
2	66	28
3	68	37
4	67	56
5	70	50
6	77	48
7	67	46	 .01
8	56	42	 .31		F
9	51	31
10	48	24
11	50	30
12	43	27
13	47	33	 .05
14	48	26
15	51	21
16	53	24
17	45	31	 .03	 0.7
18	42	24
19	41	27
20	50	36
21	58	36
22	56	15	 .07
23	22	14
24	31	20
25	31	11
26	38	12
27	42	16
28	39	28	 .18		F
29	37	30	 .04	   T	F,G
30	37	15	 .01	 0.2
31	25	14	 .03	 0.5

AVG/SUM	48.9	28.7	0.73	 1.4
EXT	77	11	0.31	 0.7
Date	6	25	8	 17
*=Also occurred on earlier dates
							
Miscellaneous Stats
			
Mean Monthly Temperature:  38.8 F						
Year precipitation to date:  42.62"					
Season snowfall to date:  1.4"					
Number of days with:  
Fog 3
Glaze 1
							
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS

1-7: A very warm first week of December with Indian Summer and every day in the 60s and 70s!
8: Mild with occasional rain .31" fell.
17: Cooler, windy & blustery with snow showers accumulating 0.7"
23: Cold high only 22 F
28: Light rain, changed to light freezing rain overnight on the 29th.
30-31: Light snow showers						

MONTHLY SUMMARY	

December was extremely dry again with only 0.73" of precipitation and 1.4" of snowfall.  It
was also an exceptionally warm month with record warmth during the first week.

Additional notes/records

3: Record high 68 F
4: All-time record high min temperature for December, 56 F this morning.  High of 67 F.
5: Very mild high 70 F low 50 F, both just missing records.
6: Daily record high 77 F sets new record for December.  Record high min as well low 48 F.
7: High 67 F 2 degrees shy of record of 69 set in 1956.  7th consecutive day in the 60s/70s.
Record high min again low 46 F.

December 1998 was the 4th driest December on record with 0.73" of precipitation.  The 2nd
half of 1998 was the driest second half of the year ever with only 9.56" of precipitation.
This immediately followed the wettest first half of a year ever - unbelievable!

December 1998 was also the 5th warmest December on record with a mean temperature of 38.8 F.

The year of 1998 was the 4th warmest year ever with a mean temperature of 53.4 F.