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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1015 AM EST TUE MAY 3 2005

...APRIL WAS WETTER AND COLDER THAN NORMAL FOR TALLAHASSEE...

RAINFALL AT THE TALLAHASSEE REGIONAL AIRPORT MEASURED 6.67 INCHES 
WHICH WAS 3.08 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THERE WERE 9 DAYS WITH 
MEASURABLE RAINFALL. THE GREATEST AMOUNT IN A 24-HOUR PERIOD WAS 
1.93 INCHES ON THE 6TH THROUGH THE 7TH. THERE WERE 6 DAYS WITH 
THUNDERSTORMS OBSERVED AT THE AIRPORT IN APRIL. THE SURPLUS OF RAIN 
HAD REDUCED OUR ANNUAL DEFICIT TO ONLY 0.94 INCHES BY THE END OF THE 
MONTH.  

THE AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE FOR APRIL AT TALLAHASSEE WAS 62.4 
DEGREES WHICH WAS 4.0 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. THIS TIES FOR THE 4TH 
COOLEST APRIL ON RECORD. THE FOLLOWING ARE THE COLDEST APRILS ON 
RECORD FOR TALLAHASSEE:

1)  62.1 1961  
2)  62.2 2001/1993
4)  62.4 2005/1987

THE AVERAGE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE WAS 76.4 DEGREES WHICH WAS 3.6 BELOW 
NORMAL. THE AVERAGE MINIMUM TEMPERATURE WAS 48.4 DEGREES WHICH WAS 
4.4 BELOW NORMAL. THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE WAS 83 DEGREES ON THE 21ST 
AND 22ND. THE LOWEST TEMPERATURE WAS 36 DEGREES ON THE 3RD AND 17TH. 
THE LOW TEMPERATURE ON THE 25TH WAS 37 DEGREES WHICH TIED A RECORD 
LOW FOR THE DATE. 

THE OUTLOOK FOR MAY ISSUED BY THE CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER CALLS 
FOR AN INCREASED CHANCE OF BELOW AVERAGE TEMPERATURES AND AN  
INCREASED CHANCE OF EXPERIENCING ABOVE NORMAL PRECIPITATION. THE 
AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE FOR MAY IS 74.4 DEGREES AND NORMAL 
RAINFALL OF 4.95 INCHES.

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BARRY