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This was recently published in the Mount Airy Newspaper regarding February Temperature Records that were broken ....

 

 

Mount Airy weather can be pretty average — usually no real surprises when the stats are totaled each month. February 2015, however, was different, with five temperature records either broken or tied here during its 28 days.

And one ironic factor is that not only will last month be remembered for its brutal cold, a high temperature record also was established in early February, according to a monthly breakdown from the city’s F.G. Doggett Water Plant.

That illustrates how one can’t assume winter is on the downswing just because the temperature hits 70 degrees — in this case breaking Mount Airy’s record high for Feb. 9 of 69 which had been set in 2009.

Dreams of an early spring would be dashed just six days later when the mercury plunged to 9 degrees, tying the city’s all-time record low for Feb. 15, established in 1943. Weather records have been kept in Mount Airy since 1924.

And by no means did it end there, as a three-day period from Feb. 19-21 would show.

A record low of 6 degrees was logged on Feb. 19, breaking the previous mark for that date set in 1979 of 9 degrees, and then a reading of 1 degree below zero on Feb. 20 similarly obliterated the local record for that date. It was 5 degrees, also set in 1979.

February 1979 further was victimized in the record book when a low of 2 below zero occurred on Feb. 21, shattering the previous local mark of 10 degrees from 1959.

When all the highs and lows were put into a hat and shaken up, an average temperature of 30.9 degrees was revealed, well below the average for Mount Airy of 40.2 degrees.

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