WETS Station : ALEXANDER CITY, AL0160 Creation Date: 08/29/2002 Latitude: 3257 Longitude: 08556 Elevation: 00640 State FIPS/County(FIPS): 01123 County Name: Tallapoosa Start yr. - 1971 End yr. - 2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Temperature | Precipitation | | (Degrees F.) | (Inches) | |-----------------------|--------------------------------------| | | | | | 30% chance |avg | | | | | | | will have |# of| avg | |-------|-------|-------| |-----------------|days| total| Month | avg | avg | avg | avg | less | more |w/.1| snow | | daily | daily | | | than | than | or| fall | | max | min | | | | |more| | -------------------------------------------------------------------------| January | 54.9 | 32.0 | 43.4 | 6.07 | 4.44 | 7.14 | 8 | 0.2 | February | 59.7 | 34.3 | 47.0 | 5.23 | 3.90 | 6.12 | 6 | 0.0 | March | 68.0 | 41.5 | 54.7 | 6.55 | 4.49 | 7.81 | 8 | 0.2 | April | 75.3 | 47.9 | 61.6 | 4.60 | 2.87 | 5.55 | 6 | 0.0 | May | 81.8 | 57.0 | 69.4 | 4.31 | 3.06 | 5.10 | 6 | 0.0 | June | 88.0 | 64.9 | 76.5 | 4.48 | 2.60 | 5.44 | 6 | 0.0 | July | 91.0 | 68.9 | 80.0 | 5.36 | 3.77 | 6.36 | 8 | 0.0 | August | 90.0 | 67.8 | 78.9 | 3.99 | 2.95 | 4.69 | 6 | 0.0 | September | 85.3 | 62.0 | 73.6 | 4.20 | 2.52 | 5.10 | 5 | 0.0 | October | 76.6 | 49.4 | 63.0 | 2.79 | 1.57 | 3.40 | 3 | 0.0 | November | 66.8 | 40.9 | 53.8 | 4.53 | 3.13 | 5.39 | 7 | 0.0 | December | 57.9 | 34.3 | 46.1 | 4.86 | 3.49 | 5.75 | 7 | 0.1 | ----------|-------|-------|-------|--------|--------|--------|----|------| ----------|-------|-------|-------|--------|--------|--------|----|------| Annual | ----- | ----- | ----- | ------ | 50.33 | 60.25 | -- | ---- | ----------|-------|-------|-------|--------|--------|--------|----|------| Average | 74.6 | 50.1 | 62.3 | ------ | ------ | ------ | -- | ---- | ----------|-------|-------|-------|--------|--------|--------|----|------| Total | ----- | ----- | ----- | 56.97 | ------ | ------ | 76 | 0.5 | ----------|-------|-------|-------|--------|--------|--------|----|------| -------------------------------------------------------------------------| GROWING SEASON DATES --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Temperature ---------------------|----------------------------------------------------- Probability | 24 F or higher | 28 F or higher | 32 F or higher | ---------------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------- | Beginning and Ending Dates | Growing Season Length | 50 percent * | 2/18 to 12/10 | 3/ 7 to 11/18 | 3/31 to 11/ 7 | 296 days | 257 days | 221 days | | | 70 percent * | 2/13 to 12/16 | 3/ 1 to 11/23 | 3/26 to 11/11 | 308 days | 267 days | 230 days | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Percent chance of the growing season occurring between the Beginning and Ending dates. total 1970-2002 prcp Station : AL0160, ALEXANDER CITY ------- Unit = inches yr jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov dec annl ------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- 70 4.22 4.05 7.16 4.49 2.31 4.28 5.75 7.27 1.52 13.72 2.02 4.86 61.65 71 5.34 6.73 12.80 3.76 5.56 5.05 5.67 3.34 4.12 0.84 3.17 6.18 62.56 7212.13 3.86 6.64 2.75 4.47 6.52 3.02 3.29 2.74 3.85 5.47 9.80 64.54 73 6.60 3.55 12.05 6.32 12.29 7.68 6.38 2.53 3.43 2.41 5.72 5.22 74.18 74 8.01 7.26 2.89 3.96 3.75 2.44 6.50 7.19 6.63 1.52 3.50 M3.69 57.34 75 6.66 9.12 10.42 10.54 4.23 5.78 9.87 5.79 5.50 3.63 5.80 77.34 76 4.94 1.70 10.89 1.48 7.99 4.81 M4.11 M3.28 2.73 1.58 4.65 5.15 53.31 77 4.70 3.55 12.45 2.65 2.28 1.76 3.81 3.59 5.32 3.92 M2.61 4.16 50.80 78 7.91 2.08 3.20 3.66 6.20 2.63 6.03 3.92 1.04 0.30 3.32 5.12 45.41 79 6.97 7.38 4.55 11.65 2.60 4.25 7.26 3.18 5.46 1.55 5.08 2.09 62.02 80 6.57 3.88M14.77 6.47 5.04 1.92 2.44 4.26 6.30 4.19 2.41 1.04 59.29 81 1.31 7.84 5.01 4.06 3.06 1.05 4.28 3.17 0.69 5.00 35.47 82 6.13 5.29 1.97 7.92 2.68 3.86 5.31 3.54 1.43 3.75 M5.88 47.76 83M2.04 5.19 8.53 9.08 4.15 5.07 1.46 4.34 8.36 3.70 8.22 12.50 72.64 84 4.95 4.31 3.64 4.00 5.59 2.73 5.77 7.83 1.12 5.11 2.56 3.10 50.71 85 3.65 6.76 2.82 2.83 4.56 1.63 9.68 4.05 1.53 4.13 3.27 3.20 48.11 86 1.01 2.96 6.27 0.37 5.32 1.69 4.35 6.40 6.90 2.81 9.48 3.29 50.85 87 7.15 7.92 6.42 1.00 6.88 4.62 4.04 3.79 1.01 0.84 3.40 5.20 52.27 88 5.97 4.00 2.38 3.37 2.31 0.49 5.69 1.20 9.61 3.21 5.14 1.90 45.27 89 3.40 4.21 7.05 4.50 3.50 14.67 8.24 M2.68 5.27 4.39 4.23 6.67 68.81 90 8.88 8.34 6.97 2.57 3.65 2.65 2.72 1.34 0.93 2.78 2.47 5.03 48.33 91 6.67 3.85 M5.49 5.76 7.74 4.67 8.82 3.71 2.10 0.23 4.42 4.73 58.19 92 6.74 6.59 3.75 6.01 1.24 3.79 6.94 6.88 2.24 2.40 11.70 6.59 64.87 93 7.09 4.33 5.77 3.84 3.99 3.93 1.25 2.59 2.07 2.96 4.20 3.44 45.46 94 3.65 4.90 7.54 5.05 3.08 4.67 9.30 6.24 3.02 2.60 3.55 4.47 58.07 95 3.47 5.64 5.05 3.30 2.23 3.77 1.97 5.87 3.58 6.67 5.30 4.56 51.41 96 7.28 4.35 9.75 3.56 3.01 1.26 3.81 5.97 6.33 1.99 2.93 5.37 55.61 97 7.55 7.88 2.95 5.85 3.56 10.89 4.03 2.40 6.21 4.16 6.51 61.99 98 7.75 8.39 4.83 6.69 2.79 4.63 5.55 2.94 6.21 0.41 3.14 2.55 55.88 99 7.83 2.19 5.44 2.11 3.88 11.42 8.15 4.38 2.18 2.36 2.30 3.07 55.31 0 5.73 2.77 4.30 2.76 1.60 3.95 4.32 1.94 8.23 2.10 8.73 4.43 50.86 1 5.73 5.73 11.42 3.21 M7.41 7.36 5.18 4.27 3.60 M1.27 2.41 4.59 62.18 2 ----------