000 TTAA00 KSTL 010801 ST LOUIS CLIMATOLOGICAL WEATHER SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 1996 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 200 AM CST FRI MAR 1 1996 TEMPERATURE... AVERAGE HIGH .............................. 47.9 DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL.................... 5.3 ABOVE AVERAGE LOW ............................... 27.0 DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL.................... 1.9 ABOVE AVERAGE FOR THE MONTH...................... 37.5 DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL.................... 3.6 ABOVE HIGHEST.................................... 78 ON THE 26TH LOWEST.................................... -12 ON THE 3RD NUMBER OF DAYS 90 OR ABOVE.................... 0 NUMBER OF DAYS 32 OR BELOW.................... 16 DEGREE DAYS... HEATING COOLING TOTAL FOR MONTH............. 797 ........ 5 DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL.... 101 BELOW .. 5 ABOVE TOTAL FOR SEASON............ 3750 ........ 5 DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL.... 41 BELOW .. 5 ABOVE LAST YEARS MONTHLY TOTAL... 794 ........ 0 LAST YEARS SEASONAL TOTAL.. 3137 ........ 0 RECORD TEMPERATURES FOR THE MONTH... RECORD HIGH... TEMP... 77 DATE... 20TH PREVIOUS TEMP... 72 YEAR... 1983 77 23RD 72 1933 76 25TH 75 1995 78 26TH 72 1971 RECORD LOW... TEMP... -12 DATE... 3RD PREVIOUS TEMP... -8 YEAR... 1886 -7 4TH -7 1912 PRECIPITATION IN INCHES... TOTAL FOR MONTH...................... 0.52 DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL.............. 1.60 BELOW TOTAL FOR YEAR....................... 3.79 DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL.............. 0.14 BELOW NUMBER OF DAYS WITH .01 OR MORE...... 5 NUMBER OF DAYS WITH 1.00 OR MORE..... 0 SNOWFALL IN INCHES... TOTAL FOR MONTH...................... 2.8 DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL.............. 2.5 BELOW TOTAL FOR SEASON (95/96)............. 25.0 DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL.............. 7.1 ABOVE FEBRUARY WAS AN INTERESTING MONTH AS THE TEMPERATURES VARIED WIDELY ACROSS THE SCALE. OUR REALLY FIRST GOOD COLD SNAP THE 2ND THROUGH THE 4TH FINALLY GAVE US A REAL TASTE OF WINTER AND NOT MANY LIKED MUCH. THEN WE STARTED TO WARM FROM THE 5TH THROUGH THE 10TH INTO MORE MILD TEMPS, DROPPING BACK TO MORE SEASONAL TEMPS FROM THERE TO THE 20TH WHEN SUMMER CAME FOR A DAY(77), THEN THE 21ST AND 22ND WERE MILD, THEN SUMMER TIME TEMPS AGAIN THE 23RD (77), 24TH (69), 25TH (76), 26TH (78) AND 27TH (65), THEN BACK TO COOLER WEATHER AGAIN. THE MONTH HAD ALL THE SEASONS ACROSS IT AND ALL ANYONE NEEDED TO DO WAS WAIT FOR THEIRS TO COME ALONG. IT RANKED THE 49TH WARMEST FEBRUARY SINCE 1870. PRECIPITATION WAS ANOTHER MATTER AS ONLY 5 DAYS OF MEASUREABLE AMOUNTS OCCURRED AND NONE OF THEM WERE ENOUGH TO REALLY WET THE GROUND, RANKING THIS FEBRUARY AS THE 8TH DRIEST SINCE 1870. THERE WAS A RUN FROM THE 2ND THROUGH THE 13TH WE HAD ONLY ONE DAY WITH A TRACE, AND ANOTHER PERIOD FROM THE 16TH THROUGH THE 25TH WE HAD 3 DAYS WITH ONLY A TRACE. MEASUREABLE SNOWFALL OCCURRED WITH .2 INCHES THE 1ST AND A NICE FALL OF 2.6 INCHES THE 15TH, RANKING THIS FEBRUARY THE 47TH LEAST SNOWIEST ON RECORD SINCE 1893.