A Look Back at January Temperatures

I think just about everyone knows that January, 2014, was cold. So just how cold was it? Let’s take a look at the month of January and pull out some highlights from the observations taken at the Birmingham Shuttlesworth Airport.

The average high for January, 2014, was 48.2 which makes this the 11th coldest January on record since 1900. The average low, however, was 24.1 degrees which puts January, 2014, as the 3rd coldest January on record since 1900 behind only 1940 at 21.5 and 1977 at 22.1.

The coldest low for the month was 7 degrees on January 7th, but we dipped into single digits on the 29th and 30th with 9 for the second coldest lows. The warmest low was 48 degrees on January 13th.

For highs, our coldest high for the month was 24 on January 7th, and our warmest high was on the 11th with 65 degrees.

The day with the least amount of temperature change was January 28th with a high of 24 and a low of 16.

The wettest day in the month was the 11th with 0.69 inches measured.

The snowfall on January 28th produced only 8 hundredths of an inch of liquid, so the ratio of snow to water was about 20 to 1, perhaps even a little higher. The “standard” liquid water equivalent is usually around 10 to 1.

Some interesting notes on a very chilly January.

-Brian-

Category: Alabama's Weather