TAPS Station : TROUT DALE, VA8547
Start yr. - 1971   End yr. - 2000
Temperature:      0 years available out of  30 requested in this analysis
Precipitation:   30 years available out of  30 requested in this analysis
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          |       Temperature (Degrees F.)    |    Precipitation (Inches)
          |-----------------------------------|--------------------------------
          |     |     |     |2 yrs in 10|     |      | 2 yrs in 10 |avg |
          |     |     |     | will have | avg |      |  will have  |# of| avg
          |-----|-----|-----|-----------| # of|      |-------------|days| total
  Month   | avg | avg | avg |max  | min |grow | avg  | less | more |w/.1| snow
          |daily|daily|     |temp.|temp.|deg  |      | than | than |  or| fall
          | max | min |     |>than|<than|days*|      |      |      |more|
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January   | --- | --- | --- |   0 |   0 |    0|  3.74|  2.33|  5.02|  7 |  4.4
February  | --- | --- | --- |   0 |   0 |    0|  3.56|  2.19|  4.96|  6 |  5.3
March     | --- | --- | --- |   0 |   0 |    0|  4.20|  2.50|  5.83|  8 |  1.3
April     | --- | --- | --- |   0 |   0 |    0|  3.70|  2.12|  5.33|  7 |  0.4
May       | --- | --- | --- |   0 |   0 |    0|  4.70|  2.92|  6.29|  8 |  0.0
June      | --- | --- | --- |   0 |   0 |    0|  4.48|  2.38|  6.51|  7 |  0.0
July      | --- | --- | --- |   0 |   0 |    0|  4.03|  2.46|  5.47|  8 |  0.0
August    | --- | --- | --- |   0 |   0 |    0|  3.62|  2.22|  5.00|  7 |  0.0
September | --- | --- | --- |   0 |   0 |    0|  3.20|  1.12|  5.31|  6 |  0.0
October   | --- | --- | --- |   0 |   0 |    0|  3.04|  1.29|  4.65|  5 |  0.0
November  | --- | --- | --- |   0 |   0 |    0|  3.43|  1.95|  4.81|  6 |  0.6
December  | --- | --- | --- |   0 |   0 |    0|  3.03|  1.75|  4.26|  6 |  1.2
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Yearly :  |-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|------|------|------|----|------
----------|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|------|------|------|----|------
  Average |  0.0|  0.0|  0.0| --- | --- | --- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---| ---
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  Extreme | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---| ---
----------|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|------|------|------|----|------
  Total   | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |    0| 44.74| 37.09| 48.24| 81 | 13.2
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Average # of days per year with at least 1 inch of snow on the ground:    9

     *A growing degree day is a unit of heat available for plant growth.
It can be calculated by adding the maximum and minumum daily temperatures, 
dividing the sum by 2, and subtracting the temperature below which growth
is minimal for the principal crops in the area (Threshold :  40.0 deg. F)