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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
240 PM CST SUN JAN 1 2005

...2005 COASTAL BEND CLIMATE HIGHLIGHTS...

THE 2005 CLIMATE DATA CAN BE SUMMED UP WITH TWO WORDS...HOT AND DRY. 
SEVERAL GOOD RAINS EARLY IN THE YEAR ACTUALLY HAD THE CORPUS CHRISTI 
AREA ABOVE NORMAL FOR RAINFALL BY THE END OF MARCH...BUT THAT WAS THE 
LAST MONTH CORPUS CHRISTI WOULD REPORT YEARLY TOTALS ABOVE NORMAL 
VALUES...AS DROUGHT CONDITIONS DEVELOPED ACROSS DEEP SOUTH TEXAS AND 
SPREAD NORTH. THE YEARLY RAINFALL TOTAL AT CORPUS CHRISTI TO 25.31 
INCHES WHICH WAS WELL BELOW NORMAL BUT ONLY THE 49TH DRIEST ON RECORD 
THANKS SOME HEAVY RAIN EVENTS. VICTORIA ENDED THE YEAR WITH 34.96 
INCHES OF RAIN...ALSO WELL BELOW NORMAL. THE NORTHERN COASTAL BEND 
RECEIVED THE HIGHEST RAINFALL TOTALS IN 2005 AND WERE NOT QUITE AS FAR 
BELOW NORMAL VALUES FOR THE YEAR...HOWEVER AREAS SOUTH AND WEST OF 
CORPUS CHRISTI MISSED OUT ON MANY OF THE HEAVIER RAIN EVENTS AND MUCH 
OF THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS WEST OF ALICE RECEIVED LESS THAN 15 INCHES OF 
RAIN IN 2005 LEAVING THIS AREA IN A SEVERE TO EXTREME DROUGHT BY YEARS 
END.

ALONG WITH THE LACK OF RAIN CAME ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES IN 2005. 
AFTER THE CHRISTMAS SNOW IN DECEMBER 2004...TEMPERATURES WARMED TO 
WELL ABOVE AVERAGE IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY 2005 (17TH AND 22ND WARMEST 
ON RECORD RESPECTFULLY IN CORPUS CHRISTI). EARLY SUMMER READINGS WERE 
GENERALLY NEAR NORMAL...BUT THE SUMMER ENDED WITH A BLISTERING HEAT 
WAVE THAT PRODUCED THE HOTTEST AUGUST AND SECOND HOTTEST SEPTEMBER ON 
RECORD IN CORPUS CHRISTI. IN FACT...HIGH TEMPERATURES SOARED AS HIGH AS 
104 ON AUGUST 30TH AND 106 SEPTEMBER 24TH AT CORPUS CHRISTI 
INTERNATIONAL (102 AND 104 VICTORIA)! TEMPERATURES AT CORPUS CHRISTI 
INTERNATIONAL EXEEEDED 90 DEGREES 130 TIMES AND 100 DEGREES 11 TIMES! 
BY YEARS END CORPUS CHRISTI HAD EXPERIENCED ITS 5TH WARMEST YEAR ON 
RECORD.

ALTHOUGH RAINFALL WAS LIMITED...2005 STILL PRODUCED SEVERAL SEVERE 
WEATHER EVENTS. ISOLATED LARGE HAIL STORMS POUNDED THE COASTAL BEND 
AROUND MOTHERS DAY AND MEMORIAL DAY. EMILY AND RITA PROVIDED 
HURRICANE SCARES FOR THE COASTAL BEND BUT EMILY ENDED UP PASSING 
WELL SOUTH OF THE REGION WHILE RITA TURNED NORTHEAST. OUTER BANDS OF 
RITA DID REACH THE COASTAL BEND AND THEY PRODUCED SEVERAL TORNADOS 
ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS WEST OF HIGHWAY 77 AS EMILY MADE 
LANDFALL IN MEXICO. 2005 SEVERE WEATHER CAME TO A CLOSE IN OCTOBER 
WITH A LARGE SEVERE STORM WHICH PRODUCED A SWATH OF LARGE HAIL AND 
DAMAGING WINDS FROM JUST NORTH OF COTULLA SOUTHWEST NEAR 
FREER...BENAVIDES...AND PREMONT.

SOME SPECIFIC 2005 CLIMATE DATA FOR CORPUS CHRISTI INTERNATIONAL AND 
VICTORIA REGIONAL AIRPORTS ARE LISTED BELOW.

2005 CLIMATE DATA FOR CORPUS CHRISTI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...

TEMPERATURE DATA:

AVERAGE DAILY TEMPERATURE................   73.3
DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL....................   +1.7
HIGHEST..................................    106 ON SEP 24TH
LOWEST...................................     33 ON DEC  8TH
AVERAGE DAILY HIGH.......................   83.3
DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL.....................  +2.3
AVERAGE DAILY LOW........................   63.3
DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL.....................  +1.2

2005 WAS THE 5TH WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD SINCE 1888.
THERE WERE 130 DAYS 90 DEGREES OR ABOVE AND 11 DAYS
100 DEGREES OR ABOVE.

PRECIPITATION DATA:
TOTAL FOR THE YEAR.......................  25.31 INCHES 
DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL....................  -6.95 INCHES 

2005 WAS THE 49TH DRIEST YEAR ON RECORD SINCE 1888 AND THERE
WAS 81 DAYS WITH MEASURABLE RAIN.

SNOWFALL:
TOTAL FOR THE YEAR.......................    0.0 INCHES


2005 CLIMATE DATA FOR VICTORIA REGIONAL AIRPORT...

TEMPERATURE DATA:

AVERAGE DAILY TEMPERATURE................   70.8
DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL....................   +0.8
HIGHEST..................................    104 ON SEP 24TH
LOWEST...................................     28 ON DEC  8TH
AVERAGE DAILY HIGH.......................   81.9
DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL.....................  +2.3
AVERAGE DAILY LOW........................   59.8
DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL.....................  -0.6

PRECIPITATION DATA:
TOTAL FOR THE YEAR.......................  34.96 INCHES 
DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL....................  -5.14 INCHES 

SNOWFALL:
TOTAL FOR THE YEAR.......................    0.0 INCHES

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MJG