Reviewing March 2011

Despite the huge surge of warmth in mid March, the month as a whole only ended up 0.9 degrees above average (44.1 degrees monthly composite temperature compared to the 'average' of 43.2 degrees).   The last nine days of March averaged 7.1 degrees below average (yeah, having a late February ending to the month pummeled the average temperature a fair bit!) but despite the cold end, the month was considered "mild" overall.   Helps to have a day that almost hit 80, doesn't it.   This is about as "typical" a March as one can have -- wild overall, about "normal" on temperatures once the wilds are balanced out.

Precipitation overall was about a half inch above average -- 4.29" total, with most of it falling early in the month (3.59" fell in the first half of the month).