PRELIMINARY LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA
BATON ROUGE
MARCH 1998

*PLEASE NOTE* This is preliminary data.
For official climate records, please contact the National Climatic Data Center. Thank you!



                              HDD   CDD
     DAY   MAX   MIN   AVG   DEP   (BASE 65)    PRECIP
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       1    60    37    49   -8     16     0     0.00
       2    65    36    51   -6     14     0     0.00
       3    57    34    46  -11     19     0     0.00
       4    71    35    53   -5     12     0    TRACE
       5    77    58    68   10      0     3    TRACE
       6    73    63    68   10      0     3     0.41
       7    69    63    66    7      0     1     1.28
       8    67    42    55   -4     10     0     0.00
       9    54    41    48  -11     17     0     0.00
      10    52    34    43  -16     22     0     0.00
      11    56    28    42  -18     23     0     0.00
      12    51    30    41  -19     24     0     0.00
      13    60    33    47  -14     18     0    TRACE
      14    68    40    54   -7     11     0    TRACE
      15    75    44    60   -1      5     0     0.00
      16    74    52    63    2      2     0     1.91
      17    79    59    69    7      0     4     0.02
      18    71    59    65    3      0     0     0.01
      19    76    51    64    2      1     0     0.01
      20    54    43    49  -14     16     0     0.00
      21    61    40    51  -12     14     0     0.00
      22    67    34    51  -12     14     0     0.00
      23    74    39    57   -6      8     0     0.00
      24    75    45    60   -4      5     0     0.00
      25    79    54    67    3      0     2     0.00
      26    81    60    71    7      0     6     0.00
      27    81    61    71    6      0     6     0.00
      28    83    67    75   10      0    10     0.00
      29    83    67    75   10      0    10    TRACE
      30    83    68    76   11      0    11     0.00
      31    76    49    63   -2      2     0     0.39
     SUM  2152  1466
     AVG  69.4  47.3
===================================================================
      *TEMPERATURE DATA*              *PRECIPITATION DATA* 
      ------------------              --------------------
    AVERAGE MONTHLY: 58.4             MONTHLY TOTAL:   4.03
          DEPARTURE: -2.9                 DEPARTURE:  -0.78
      HIGHEST: 83 ON: 28,29,30
       LOWEST: 28 ON: 11
                                 GREATEST in 24 HRS:   1.91 on 16
                                 NUMBER OF DAYS WITH PRECIP:
     NUMBER OF DAYS WITH:                   >= 0.01 INCH:  5
     MAX 32 OR ABOVE:    0                  >= 0.10 INCH:  4
     MAX 90 OR ABOVE:    0                  >= 0.50 INCH:  2
     MIN 32 OR BELOW:    2                  >= 1.00 INCH:  2
     MIN  0 OR BELOW:    0
 HDD (BASE 65) TOTAL:  253
           DEPARTURE:   83
      SEASONAL TOTAL: 1727
           DEPARTURE:   85
 CDD (BASE 65) TOTAL:   56
           DEPARTURE:    1
      SEASONAL TOTAL:   58
           DEPARTURE:  -28


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