Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1905 — How January Generally Averages [ARTICLE]

How January Generally Averages

The Indianapolis station of the Weather Bnrean has compiled the following data to show what sort weather Januaries have bad in this state for the last thirty-three yeare. The mean or normal temperature for Janaary was 28; the warmest January was in 1880, with an average temperature of 45, and the ooldest in 1893, with an average of 18. The highest temperature for any January day was 70, on January 11, 1890, and the lowest was 25 below zero, on January sth, 1884 The average precipitation for the month was 286 inches; the average number of days for a month, in which 01 or more inches of rain fell was 13; the greatest monthly preoipitation was 10 20 inohes in 1890; the least monthly precipitation was .76 inohes inches in 1902, and the greatest amount of preoipitation in any 24 consecutive hours was 4.41 inches, January 1, 1890. The greatest amount of snowfall in any 24 conseoutive hours (record extending to winter of 1884-’BS only ) was 9 6 inohes. January 10 11, IJX)S. The average number of olear days was six; partly cloudy tin, and cloudy days fifteen. The prevailing direction of the wind was from the west; its average velocity was twelve miles an hour, and its highest velocity was fifty-seven miles frcm the southwest, January 17, 1897.