January 1998 LaVale MD Weather Summary
Observer Nate Mullins

Special Observations:
F=fog
T=thunder
H=hail
DW=damaging wind
S=sleet
G=glaze

	Temperature, F	Precip
Date	Max	Min	Liquid	Solid	Special Obs

1	30	1
2	50	15
3	61	31
4	63	38
5	57	28			F
6	58	44	 .02
7	59	50	 .93		F
8	62	53	 .95		F
9	55	35	 .06		F
10	45	30
11	44	29
12	45	24	 .05	 0.5
13	45	30	 .02	   T	F
14	30	17
15	31	20	 .17	 0.2	F,G
16	44	20	   T		F
17	38	21	 .15		F
18	38	28	   T	   T
19	40	28
20	36	22	   T	   T
21	36	18
22	38	24	 .11	 1.0
23	36	29	1.31	 3.0	F,G
24	35	28	 .06	 0.8
25	37	27	   T	   T
26	46	23
27	36	28	 .33	 2.0	F
28	33	29	 .59	 3.0	F,G
29	48	25			F
30	38	33
31	38	26

Tot	43.6	27.5	4.75	10.5
Ext	63	1	1.31	3.0
Date	4	1	23	28+

Mean Monthly Temp 35.6
Fog days 12
Glaze days 3

Significant Events

1: Cold start to the New Year low 1F this morning.
3: Mild high 61F
4: Mild high 63F
7: Some light drizzle this morning, rain developed during the afternoon & became heavy at times .93" fell.
8: Showers and fog overnight.  Rain tapered off by 11am but another heavy downpour about 1:30pm with gusty
   winds.  Continued very mild high 62F.  Total rain .95" fell today.
15: Intermittent light freezing rain during the day .17" fell and all of it froze causing a sheet of glaze.
23: Wet snow overnight changed to freezing rain then rain during the day.  Total 1.31" fell.  Storm total
    1.42" precip and 4.0" snow.
27: Wet snow began late this afternoon.  Finally began to accumulate by 8pm.  Total 2.0" by midnight.
28: More snow overnight another 3.0" fell before changing to rain then ending during the day.  Total 5.0"
    snow melted to .92" precip.

Summary:

January seemed like spring at times with some mild temperatures and an overall mild weather pattern.  There
were still a number of winter storms that brought light to moderate amounts of snow and ice to the area.
Precipitation was well above normal.

Additional notes/records

1: Record low 1 F (coldest New Year's day reading on record!)
7: Record high min temperature of 50 F
8: Record high min temperature of 53 F.  Also a daily record precipitation of 0.95" fell today.