The temperature may be plummeting in Wellsville today, but it is still 40 degrees warmer than New Year's Day 2018! Last year was also wet...very wet.
In 2018, Wellsville Regional News recorded 44.26 inches of precipitation, compared with 34.93 inches in 2017; 33.45 inches in 2016 and 32.66 inches in 2015.
The year 2018 also didn't feature waves of blistering heat. The mercury peaked at just 90 in July. January was just plain could! The coldest morning of the year was January 7th at -13.9. Other zero or sub-zero readings in January include:
1/1/18: -11.4
1/3/18: 0
1/5/18: -2.6
1/6/18: -8.5
The highest "low" temperature last year was 69.6 on May 3rd. Meanwhile, the lowest "high" temperature was 5.9 on January 6th.
For card-carrying weather geeks...the maximum barometric pressure recorded here was 30.77 on February 13th and the barometer to 29.29 on December 21st.
