NORMALS:
                  HIGH       LOW        AVG        PCPN
OZARKS              51        29         40        2.41
NORTHEAST           51        30         41        3.56
EAST CENTRAL        53        33         43        3.84
SOUTHEAST           56        36         46        4.00
ARKANSAS VALLEY     57        32         45        3.19
OUACHITAS           55        31         43        3.65
LITTLE ROCK AREA    56        35         45        3.33
SOUTHWEST           60        39         50        3.31

STATE EXTREME TEMPERATURES:

HIGHEST: 93 AT PINE BLUFF 2/27/1918
LOWEST: -29 AT POND (GRAVETTE) 2/13/1905

LITTLE ROCK EXTREMES:

WARMEST AVERAGE   54.1 IN 1882   ALL TIME HIGH        87 ON 2/25/1918
COLDEST AVERAGE   31.9 IN 1978   ALL TIME LOW        -13 ON 2/12/1899
WETTEST          12.74 IN 1882   MOST RAIN ONE DAY  4.18 ON  2/7/1921
DRIEST            0.51 IN 1947   MOST SNOW ONE DAY   8.5 ON 2/23/1966
SNOWIEST          15.6 IN 1979


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HIGHLIGHTS

February 2,1951: Extreme cold on top of ice cover in most of state, 
-24 at Mammoth Spring and -5 at Little Rock.

February 9, 1979: Over a month of prolonged cold, snow, and ice cause
Oaklawn to delay their racing season by one week. 

February 8-10, 1994: Damaging ice storm in most of the state, 
especially in the south, some areas were without electric power for 
two weeks.

February 11-13, 1899: Arctic outbreak caused many stations reporting 
at that time (including Little Rock and Fort Smith) to record
all time record lows. 

February 13, 1905: Pond, near Gravette, records all time state record 
low temperature of -29.

February 5, 1942 and February 22, 1975: Tornadoes hit Little Rock 
each date with fatalities.

February 24, 2001: Over a dozen tornadoes were spawned in central and 
eastern Arkansas. The strongest tornado (F3) was in Desha County, 
with parts of a farm shop found 6 miles away from where it was 
blow apart. An 18 month old boy was killed in Fulton County by an 
F2 tornado.    

February 24-25, 1979: Heavy wet snow in Ouachitas with up to 
16 inches, and 15 to 20 inches of snow in the extreme northeast.

February 24-26, 2003: Heavy snow developed across the central third 
of Arkansas on the 24th/25th, with 4 to 8 inches common. Up to a 
foot of snow fell in some areas from just north of Mount Ida to just 
southeast of Perryville (west central into central Arkansas). Later 
on the 25th/26th, an ice storm hit the southeast half of the state 
with a quarter to half inch of glaze on exposed objects.     

February 25, 1918: Highs in the 80s in most of the state and Pine 
Bluff reaches 92.