MONTHLY WEATHER DATA AND OBS - LAVALE MD							
MAY 2007							
OBSERVERS DAVID DREWERY AND CHARLES ORLICK
							
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	7am	
	24-hour		Rain	Snow/	Snow	
Date	Max	Min	Equiv	Ice	Depth	Special Obs.

1	89 	55	 .02			T
2	81	58	 .03
3	64	50
4	72	41
5	67	46	 .02
6	65	42
7	72	34
8	80	40
9	87	47
10	85	59	   T
11	82	55
12	78	55	   T			T
13	72	48
14	75	37
15	86	45
16	72	54	 .18
17	62	45
18	55	46	 .62
19	73	40
20	74	55
21	72	48
22	82	45
23	83	55
24	83	55
25	86	58
26	87	57
27	87	59
28	86	63
29	87	56
30	90	55
31	91	59

AVG/SUM	78.2	50.4	0.87	 0.0	 -
EXT	91	34	0.62	 -	 -
Date	31	7	18	 -	 -
*=Also occurred on earlier dates
							
Miscellaneous Stats
			
Mean Monthly Temperature:  64.3 F						
Year precipitation to date:  12.13"						
Season snowfall to date:  35.5"						
Number of days with:  
Fog 0
Thunder 3
Sleet 0
Glaze 0
Hail 0
Damaging Wind 0
							
DETAILED OBSERVATION NOTES
	
1: Mostly cloudy and very warm with a couple brief showers with thunder late.
2: A brief shower shortly after midnight.  Partly cloudy and warm.
3: Partly cloudy and cooler with light breezes.
4: Cloudy during the morning, then partly cloudy during the afternoon.
5: Cloudy with a light shower around 4pm.
6: Sunny and windy with gusts 20+ mph.
7: Clear and cool morning low 34 F.  Sunny and breezy this afternoon.
8: Sunny and calm.
9: Sunny and warm high 87 F.
10: Partly cloudy and warm high 85 F.  A very brief shower around 3pm, not measurable.  Heavier
    showers and storms all around this station.
11: Sunny, calm and pleasant.
12: Mostly sunny early, becoming mostly cloudy.  Brief light shower with thunder around 6pm with
    heavy showers and storms again all around us.
13: Clear and sunny with light E breezes.
14: Sunny and calm.  Cool this morning low 37 F.
15: Sunny and warm with gusty SW winds to 30 mph.
16: Cloudy and breezy with light showers during the mid-day hours beginning at 10am.
17: Partly sunny with light random breezes.
18: A period of steady rain began this morning around 6am and lasted until 3pm .62" fell and was
    very much needed.
19: Partly sunny & breezy with west winds gusting 20 mph.
20: Partly cloudy & windy.
21: Sunny and pleasant with light north breezes.
22: Sunny and warmer becoming cloudy after 4pm.
23: Sunny and warm.
24: Sunny and warm.
25: Sunny and warm.  Few PM clouds.
26: Sunny with some passing afternoon clouds and light breezes.
27: Partly to mostly sunny with light W breezes.
28: Cloudy, becoming mostly clear by afternoon with light NE breezes.
29: Sunny early, then partly cloudy after 1pm.
30: Sunny and hot high 90 F.
31: Sunny, becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon.  Hot high 91 F.  Thunder and gusty winds
    around 5pm but no rain.  Strong storms all around us again.

MONTHLY SUMMARY

May set records for heat and dryness.  The mean temperature of 64.3 F made it the second warmest
May on record.  The average max of 78.2 was the warmest on record.  Meanwhile, the paltry 0.87"
monthly precipitation total shattered the old record of 2.44" in 1993.  Only 5 days had any
measurable rainfall, and thunderstorms were few and far between, and missed this station.

Additional notes/records

1: Record high 89 F
2: Record high min 58 F

May 2007 was the 2nd driest May on record with 0.87" of precipitation.