Easterwood Field

College Station, Texas


Monthly Summary for September 1998


	TEMPERATURE      PRECIP.                       TEMPERATURE

  Day   Max  Min  *DEPART   TOTAL         MEANS            ACTUAL       DEPART.

   1    96   73      3                    Maximum           90.8          2.4
   2    97   74      4	                  Minimum           73.4          4.7 
   3    100  73      5	                  Monthly	    82.1          3.5
   4    99   75      6                                  
   5    96   71      1                    EXTREMES           TEMP         DATE
                                          Highest           100F            3 
   6    95   69      1                    Lowest             69F           6,30   
   7    96   70      2               
   8    94   73      2                    DEGREE DAYS       TOTAL        DEPART.
   9    95   74      4                    Heating              0            0
  10    82   73     -2      0.10          Cooling            513          105
                                          
  11    77   73     -5      4.31               
  12    76   73     -6      1.21          PRECIPITATION       AMOUNT     DEPART.  
  13    79   73     -3               
  14    89   75      3      0.35          Total Monthly        7.61       2.74
  15    84   74      0      1.44          Total for 1998      24.91      -4.38
                                          Precipitation Days      7          1
  16    79   74     -3      0.19          
  17    86   74      2                    EXTREMES            AMOUNT     DATE 
  18    91   73      4                    24-hour Maximum      4.31      11th
  19    91   73      4           
  20    92   76      6      0.01          MAXIMUM WIND GUST    33mph     11th 

  21    92   75      6                    NUMBER OF DAYS      AMOUNT     DEPART.
  22    93   77      8                    TEMPERATURE
  23    93   76      7                    Maximum 90 or higher   21        4
  24    93   75      8                    Maximum 32 or lower     0        0
  25    92   72      6                    Minimum 32 or lower     0        0

  26    89   73      5                           RECORD BOOK FOR SEPTEMBER
  27    93   76      9                    Highest Temperature    106F    1985
  28    96   75     11                    Lowest Temperature      42F    1942
  29    95   71      8                    Wettest Month        12.13"    1958
  30    94   69      7                    Driest Month          0.02"    1929
                                          Wettest 24 hours      5.23"    1974
                                          Highest Minimum         82F    1916
                                          Lowest Maximum          62F    1985
  


Temperature in degrees Fahrenheit
Precipitation in inches
"T" denotes less than or equal to 0.005"
BOLDFACE indicates extreme values for the month
ITALICS indicate a record was set or tied
* Departure of the daily mean temperature, as calculated from the average
of the maximum and minimum temperatures, from the 1961-1990 normals.













New Records Set Or Tied

  DAY             PARAMETER                   VALUE    OLD RECORD       YEAR
 11th     Lowest Maximum Temperature           77F        78F           1969
 12th     Lowest Maximum Temperature           76F        79F           1961
 22nd     Highest Minimum Temperature Tied     77F        77F           1955




Near Records

  DAY             PARAMETER                   VALUE      RECORD         YEAR
 10th     Tied 2nd Lowest Maximum Temperature  82F        77F           1948 
 20th     Tied 2nd Highest Minimum Temperature 76F        80F           1915 
 23rd     2nd Highest Minimum Temperature      76F        77F           1993
 24th     Tied 2nd Highest Minimum Temperature 75F        76F           1974
 27th     Tied 2nd Highest Minimum Temperature 76F        78F           1959    
 28th     Tied 2nd Highest Minimum Temperature 75F        78F           1959
 28th     3rd Highest Maximum Temperature      96F       100F           1953
 30th     4th Highest Maximum Temperature      94F        98F           1953

Monthly Review

September was the fifth consecutive month that the Brazos Valley experienced above normal temperatures with a mean monthly temperature of 82.1F. The mean daily temperature dropped below its daily normal temperature on only 5 days throughout the month. Interestingly, even with Septembers' warmer than normal temperatures, Easterwood Field set two new lowest maximum temperature records on the 11th and the 12th with maximum temperatures reaching only 77F and 76F respectively.

Our region also experienced a wtter than normal September with a monthly precipitation total of 7.61 inches. More than half of the monthly precipitation that fell on Easterwood can be attributed to Tropical Storm Frances which brought heavy rains to East Texas from the 10th to the 12th of September. On September 11th alone, 4.31 inches of rain were reported at Easterwood Field. Dreary conditions continued on into the 3rd week of the month when a stationary trough was parked over East Texas from the 14th to the 17th.

During the last week of September the sun was able to break out from behind the clouds and warm the temperature readings in the Brazos Valley to once again above normal values. On the 28th for example, the mean daily temperature was 11F above normal. 

October Normals for College Station

                           Temperature
Beginning of the month       84 / 64         Monthly Precipitation:      3.81"
Middle of the month          81 / 59         Precipitation days:            6
End of the month             76 / 54         90F Days                       3


Prepared by:    John F. Griffiths (State Climatologist)
                Chris J. Gordon (Graduate Assistant to the State Climatologist)
                cgordon@tamu.edu