January of 2019 started out cold and unsettled, as a passing weather system ushered in some of the coldest air of the season across the area on New Years Day. The rest of January can be characterized by periodic weather disturbances moving through persistent moderate west to northwest flow aloft across the Rockies. This pattern brought beneficial snowfall to areas over and near the higher terrain, with periods of warm temperatures and strong winds, as well as brief periods of moisture and cold temperatures, to the Southeast Plains. February of 2019 continued the weather pattern of the previous month, with periodic weather disturbances moving through persistent moderate west to northwest flow aloft across the Rockies. This pattern brought abundant and beneficial snowfall to areas over and near the higher terrain, especially the Southwest Mountains, with Wolf Creek Ski resort reporting over 5 feet of snow in one 7 day period. This pattern also brought periods of warm temperatures and strong winds, as well as brief periods of moisture and cold arctic intrusions to the Southeast Plains.
March of 2019 was a cool and wet month across most of South Central and Southeast Colorado. as periodic weather disturbances moved across the Rockies, bringing abundant snowfall to areas over and near the higher terrain, especially along and west of the Continental Divide. This snowfall produced an unprecedented amount of avalanches across Colorado's High County through out the month of March. This pattern also produced an extremely powerful low pressure system across southern Colorado on March 13th, bringing strong and damaging winds and widespread rain to the Southeast Plains, blizzard conditions over El Paso County, and dropping feet of snow over the mountains. The "bombogenesis" event of March 13th also set records as it produced the lowest surface pressure ever recorded (970.4 mb in Lamar) in the state, along with several records of the strongest wind gusts across Southeast Colorado, including a record setting 96 mph wind gust at the Colorado Springs Airport. April of 2019 was roller coaster month for temperatures, especially across the southeast Plains, as weather systems moving across the Rockies brought periods of unseasonably warm weather followed by periods of unseasonably cool weather to the region. These systems also brought bouts of rain and snow, especially for areas over and near the higher terrain. May of 2019 continued to be a roller coaster month for weather across the state, with a few spells of warm and dry weather, along with periods of unseasonably cold and strong weather systems bringing abundant rain and snow across the area, as well as bouts of severe weather across the southeast Plains.
June of 2019 continued to be a roller coaster month for weather across the state, with a few warm and dry spells followed by unseasonably cold and strong weather systems bringing rain, mountain snow and severe storms across the area. Accumulating snowfall was even recorded across the higher peaks on the first full day of Summer, June 22nd. High pressure aloft built into the region bringing an extended period of "summer warmth" for the last week of the month. July of 2019 saw temperatures rise to more "summer" like conditions across most of south central and southeast Colorado. In addition, bouts of "monsoonal moisture" brought some bursts of heavy rainfall, along with a few rounds of severe thunderstorms, across the area through out the month of July. August of 2019 was generally hot and dry across south central and southeast Colorado, as upper level high pressure persisted across the Desert Southwest and Four Corners region, which limited the amount of monsoonal moisture moving into the region.
September of 2019 started off where August left off, hot and mainly dry across south central and southeast Colorado. Colorado Springs set or tied 3 daily record high temperatures through the first 5 days of the month, while Pueblo tied or set 4 daily record highs through the first five days of September! Warm and mainly dry conditions continued through most of the rest of September, as upper level high pressure persisted across the Desert Southwest and Four Corners region. October of 2019 was the polar opposite of September, with several unseasonably strong and cold systems moving across Colorado bringing early season record cold temperatures as well as the seasons first snowfall for many locales. Of note, Pueblo set the coldest temperature ever recorded in October of -6F on October 30th, beating the previous October record low temperature of -4F set on October 29th of 1917! November of 2019 saw a few passing weather systems moving across the state through the fist half of the month, bringing periods of warm and cold temperatures along with some light precipitation across the area. For the last half of the month, several unseasonably strong and cold systems moved across Colorado, bringing abundant snowfall for many locales along with colder than normal temperatures through the end of the month. December of 2019 saw several passing weather systems across the state, bringing periods of cold and snow, along with periods of above to well above seasonal temperatures.
...THE ALAMOSA CO CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE YEAR OF 2019...
CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD: 1981 TO 2010
CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD: 1932 TO 2019
WEATHER OBSERVED NORMAL DEPART
VALUE DATE(S) VALUE FROM
NORMAL
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TEMPERATURE (F)
RECORD
HIGH 96 07/05/1989
LOW -50 01/28/1948
HIGHEST 88 07/20
07/19
09/03
LOWEST -26 01/30
12/30
12/31
AVG. MAXIMUM 58.6 59.2 -0.6
AVG. MINIMUM 23.0 23.9 -0.9
MEAN 40.8 41.6 -0.8
DAYS MAX >= 90 0
DAYS MAX <= 32 56
DAYS MIN <= 32 232
DAYS MIN <= 0 49
PRECIPITATION (INCHES)
RECORD
MAXIMUM 11.55 1969
MINIMUM 3.40 1956
TOTALS 7.81 7.31 0.50
DAILY AVG. 0.02 0.02 -0.00
DAYS >= .01 64
DAYS >= .10 24
DAYS >= .50 3
DAYS >= 1.00 0
GREATEST
24 HR. TOTAL 0.64 06/10 TO 06/11
SNOWFALL (INCHES)
RECORDS
MAXIMUM 97.5 1973
MINIMUM 6.4 1934
24 HR TOTAL 15.8 12/13/1967 TO 12/13/1967
TOTALS 53.5 27.6 25.9
SINCE 7/1 13.1 10.3 2.8
SNOWDEPTH AVG. 1
DAYS >= TRACE 52 22.9 29.1
DAYS >= 1.0 17 9.3 7.7
GREATEST
SNOW DEPTH 8 01/11
24 HR TOTAL 7.6 01/11 TO 01/11
DEGREE DAYS
HEATING TOTAL 8784 8594 190
SINCE 7/1 3601 3637 -36
COOLING TOTAL 72 52 20
SINCE 1/1 72 51 21
FREEZE DATES
RECORD
EARLIEST 08/21/1980
LATEST 06/29/1945
EARLIEST 09/13
LATEST 05/31
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WIND (MPH)
AVERAGE WIND SPEED 7.5
RESULTANT WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 3/210
HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 47/250 DATE 04/20
HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 80/240 DATE 05/26
SKY COVER
POSSIBLE SUNSHINE (PERCENT) MM
AVERAGE SKY COVER 0.19
NUMBER OF DAYS FAIR 283
NUMBER OF DAYS PC 67
NUMBER OF DAYS CLOUDY 15
AVERAGE RH (PERCENT) 56
WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH
THUNDERSTORM 43 MIXED PRECIP 0
HEAVY RAIN 10 RAIN 21
LIGHT RAIN 96 FREEZING RAIN 0
LT FREEZING RAIN 1 HAIL 0
HEAVY SNOW 6 SNOW 17
LIGHT SNOW 52 SLEET 0
FOG 87 FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE 30
HAZE 52
- INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS.
R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED.
MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING.
T INDICATES TRACE AMOUNT.
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