Springfield, MO

Weather Forecast Office

2019 Annual Climate Summary

Summary

Climatology

Weather Stories

Monthly Summaries

Jan-Mar Outlook

Departure Maps

Records

Climate Graphs

Year End Summary

	Springfield	Joplin	West Plains	Vichy
Highest Temperature of the Year	97	95	97	94
Average High Temperature	67.4	67.5	67.7	65.4
Lowest Temperature of the Year	3	3	6	-3
Average Low Temperature	47.3	47.8	47.3	45.7
Average Mean Temperature	57.3	57.7	57.5	55.5
Depart from Normal	+ 1.0	- 0.8	+ 0.7	+ 0.4
Rank	24th warmest / 132	38th coolest / 92	14th warmest / 72	36th warmest / 78
Days with highs of 90 degrees or warmer	45	39	35	22
Days with highs of 32 degrees or lower	13	14	8	21
Days with lows of 32 degrees or lower	94	94	94	104
Days with lows of 0 degrees or lower	0	0	0	2

Precipitation (Inches)	54.28	62.44	61.84	43.55
Depart from Normal	+ 8.71	+ 15.89	+ 15.62	- 0.06
Rank	12th wettest / 132	4th wettest / 110	2nd wettest / 72	23rd wettest / 78
days of 0.01 or greater	129	133	121	120
days of 0.10 or greater	88	87	83	77
days of 0.50 or greater	37	46	50	30
days of 1.00 or greater	15	16	19	12
Yearly Snowfall	5.1

Year End Summary - Climatology

Month	Springfield		Joplin		West Plains		Vichy
	Mean Temperature	Departure	Mean Temperature	Departure	Mean Temperature	Departure	Mean Temperature	Departure
January	34.4	+ 1.8	35.0	+ 0.1	35.0	+ 1.0	31.2	+ 0.1
February	37.7	+ 0.5	36.7	- 3.1	39.8	+ 1.9	34.8	- 0.9
March	43.5	- 2.8	44.5	- 4.4	43.5	- 4.0	41.3	- 4.0
April	59.0	+ 3.2	59.1	+ 0.7	59.5	+ 2.1	58.0	+ 2.8
May	66.6	+ 1.8	66.4	- 0.6	66.7	+ 1.3	65.4	+ 1.6
June	73.5	+ 0.1	74.0	- 1.5	72.9	- 0.8	71.4	- 1.0
July	78.4	+ 0.2	78.4	- 1.8	77.4	- 0.6	76.9	- 0.4
August	77.6	- 0.2	77.7	- 2.0	77.4	+ 0.2	75.2	- 1.1
September	78.4	+ 9.4	78.4	+ 7.6	76.7	+ 7.8	75.0	+ 7.4
October	55.2	- 2.6	55.5	- 4.3	57.0	- 0.4	54.6	- 2.0
November	43.4	- 2.7	44.5	- 3.9	42.9	- 3.9	42.5	- 2.7
December	40.6	+ 5.6	42.0	+ 4.8	41.3	+ 5.1	40.0	+ 6.3
Annual	57.3	+ 1.0	57.7	- 0.8	56.8	+ 0.7	55.5	+ 0.4
Annual	24th warmest / 132		38th coolest / 92		14th warmest / 72		36th warmest / 75

Month	Springfield		Joplin		West Plains		Vichy
	Precipitation	Departure	Precipitation	Departure	Precipitation	Departure	Precipitation	Departure
January	2.71	+ 0.24	2.72	+ 0.69	4.78	+ 2.06	1.43	- 0.74
February	3.03	+ 0.51	1.87	- 0.45	4.76	+ 1.92	2.67	+ 0.74
March	3.36	- 0.26	2.84	- 0.58	4.17	- 0.12	4.85	+ 1.40
April	5.02	+ 0.70	6.55	+ 2.08	5.09	+ 0.61	6.15	+ 1.93
May	13.16	+ 8.06	14.17	+ 8.46	9.95	+ 5.01	4.88	- 0.16
June	4.98	+ 0.13	8.49	+ 2.63	8.30	+ 4.28	2.17	- 2.46
July	2.78	- 0.90	6.27	+ 2.46	2.54	- 1.01	5.67	+ 1.23
August	5.04	+ 1.49	5.98	+ 2.63	7.16	+ 3.93	4.93	+ 1.26
September	1.61	- 3.00	4.45	- 0.50	0.65	- 3.44	1.99	- 2.05
October	8.18	+ 4.59	5.19	+ 1.16	6.65	+ 2.81	5.03	+ 1.52
November	3.10	- 1.12	2.54	- 1.24	6.42	+ 1.84	2.10	- 1.77
December	1.31	- 1.73	1.37	- 1.45	1.37	-2.27	1.68	- 0.96
Annual	54.28	+ 8.71	62.44	+ 15.89	61.84	+ 15.62	43.55	- 0.06
Annual	12th wettest / 132		4th wettest / 110		2nd wettest / 72		23rd wettest / 78

Weather Stories of 2019

January 11th-12th	Snow and Ice
January 19th	Snow
January 29th-30th	Snow
February 5th-7th	Severe Storms and Ice
February 15th	Winter Weather
March 3rd	Snow
March 9th	High Wind Event
March 24th	Severe Storms and Large Hail
April 30th	Tornado Outbreak
May 20th-22nd	Tornadoes and Flooding
August 26th	Severe Storms
October 20th-21st	Severe Storms and Tornadoes
December 15th-16th	Winter Weather
December 28th	Severe storms and tornado

Monthly Summaries

2019
January	February	March	April
May	June	July	August
September	October	November	December

Outlook

Temperature Outlook (Jan-Mar 2020)

Precipitation Outlook (Jan-Mar 2020)

Maps

January		February		March
Temperatures	Precipitation	Temperatures	Precipitation	Temperatures	Precipitation


April		May		June
Temperature	Precipitation	Temperature	Precipitation	Temperature	Precipitation


July		August		September
Temperature	Precipitation	Temperature	Precipitation	Temperature	Precipitation


October		November		December
Temperature	Precipitation	Temperature	Precipitation	Temperature	Precipitation

Annual
Temperature	Precipitation

Records

List of January 2019 Records
Date	Station	Record
Jan 11th	Joplin	Record daily rainfall of 1.40 inches breaks the old record of 0.17 inches set in 1993.
Jan 11th	Vichy	Record daily rainfall of 0.49 inches breaks the old record of 0.35 inches set in 1946.

List of February 2019 Records
Date	Station	Record
No records were set during the month of February 2019

List of March 2019 Records
Date	Station	Record
March 6th	West Plains	Record low of 11 degrees breaks the old record of 12 set back in 2015.
March 12th	Springfield	Record rainfall of 1.27" breaks the old record of 0.95" set back in 1898.
	Joplin	Record rainfall of 0.81" breaks the old record of 0.64" set back in 1980.
	Vichy	Record rainfall of 1.06" breaks the old record of 1.01" set back in 1966.

List of April 2019 Records
Date	Station	Record
April 10th	Joplin	A record high temperature of 87 degrees broke the old record of 84 set in 2011.
April 30th	Joplin	A record rainfall of 4.15 inches breaks the old record of 3.48 inches set in 1970.

List of May 2019 Records
Date	Station	Record
May 20th	Springfield	Record rainfall of 2.33 inches breaks the old record of 2.20 inches set in 1896.
May 20th	Joplin	Record rainfall of 3.84 inches breaks the old record of 2.09 inches set in 2011.
May 23rd	Springfield	Record rainfall of 4.29 inches breaks the old record of 2.36 inches set in 1971.
May 23rd	Joplin	Record rainfall of 3.20 inches breaks the old record of 1.83 inches set in 2011.
May 2019	West Plains	Record rainfall of 9.95 inches for the month of May breaks the old record of 9.32 set in 2011.

List of June 2019 Records
Date	Station	Record
June 16th	Joplin	Record rainfall of 1.57 inches broke the old record of 1.53 inches set in 1988.

List of July 2019 Records
Date	Station	Record
July 22nd	Vichy	Record rainfall of 2.52 inches breaks the old record of 1.16 inches set in 1961.
July 24th	Joplin	Record low temperature of 57 tied the old record set in 2000.

List of August 2019 Records
Date	Station	Record
August 23rd	West Plains	Record rainfall of 1.90 inches broke the old record of 0.93 inches set in 1988.
August 30th	Vichy	Record rainfall of 1.13 inches broke the old record of 1.07 inches set in 2014.

List of September 2019 Records
Date	Station	Record
September 16th	Springfield	A record high of 95 degrees today, tied the old record set in 1980.
September 18th	Springfield	A record high of 95 degrees today, broke the old record of 94 set in 1960.
Month of September	Springfield	Warmest September on Record with an average temperature of 78.4. Breaks old record of 77.6 set back in 1939
Month of September	West Plains	Warmest September on record with an average temperature of 76.7. This breaks the old record of 73.8 set back in 1998.

List of October 2019 Records
Date	Station	Record
October 1st	Vichy	Record high temperature of 90 degrees tied the old record set back in 1897, 1952 and 1953.
October 6th	West Plains	Record daily rainfall of 2.61 inches broke the record of 2.38 inches set back in 1951.
October 12th	Joplin	Record low temperature of 31 degrees breaks the old record of 32 degrees set in 1965.
October 12th	Vichy	Record low temperature of 30 degrees breaks the old record of 32 set in 2006.
October 21st	West Plains	Record daily rainfall of 0.60 inches breaks the old record of 0.58 set in 1949

List of November 2019 Records
Date	Station	Record
November 12th	Springfield	Record low of 9 degrees tied the old record set back in 1911.
	Joplin	Record low of 11 degrees tied the old record set back in 1911.
	West Plains	Record low of 12 degrees breaks the old record of 16 set in 1950.
	West Plains	Record lowest maximum temperature of 28 breaks the old record of 32 set in 2014.
	Vichy	Record low of 8 degrees breaks the old record of 16 set in 1976.
	Vichy	Record lowest maximum temperature of 24 breaks the old record of 36 set in 1996.
November 15th	Vichy	Record low of 19 degrees breaks the old record of 20 set in 2014.

List of December 2019 Records
Date	Station	Record
December 25th	West Plains	Record high of 68 degrees tied the old record set in 1971.
December 28th	Springfield	Record rainfall of 1.06 inches breaks the old record of 0.63 inches set in 1942.
December 28th	Joplin	Record rainfall of 1.26 inches breaks the old record of 0.55 inches set in 2015.