According to what I find, February average daily high temperatures increase by 7 degrees, from starting at 59 to ending at 66 degrees. Daily average lows increase by 6 degrees, from starting at 40 to ending at 46 degrees. It is a rare day that the high is below 41 degrees or higher than 79. And it is another rare day when the low is below 27 degrees or tops 59.
Compare the above to the “hottest day of the year,” August 1, when temperatures average beginning at 77 degrees and top out at 96—or to the “coldest day of the year,” January 4, when temperatures average beginning at 39 degrees and climb only to 56.
Oh, yes, the sunlight of February increases by 50 minutes from day 1 to the end, when there are 11 hours and 28 minutes of daylight compared to 10 hours and 38 minutes at the start.
All-time minimum (low) temperatures for this area show four (4) occurred in February. The lowest ever for our area was “minus eight” (-8) degrees on February 12, 1899. On February 13, 1905, the low dropped to “one” (1) degree. February 8, 1933, recorded a low of “two” (2) degrees. Finally, February 13 of 1899 registered a “four” (4) degrees minimum.
More recently, the low was “five” (5) degrees on February 2, 1951.
In contrast, the hottest day ever in February was February 21, 1996, when the high was a greatly unusual “ninety-six point one” (96.1) degrees.
Interesting also to note is that in all of February, 1944, no rain at all was recorded at the weather station, and in February of 1997, “twelve point twenty-one” (12.21) inches fell during the month.
One final group of notable FEBRUARY record lows below “twenty” (20) degrees—“eighteen” (18) degrees, 2/16/07-----“eleven” (11) degrees, 2/04/96-----“sixteen” (16) degrees, 2/11/88-----“ten” (10) degrees, 2/02/85-----“ten” (10) degrees, 2/11/81-----“eleven” (11) degrees, 2/18/78-----‘’fifteen” (15) degrees, 2/08/71-----“eighteen” (18) degrees, 2/24/65-----“sixteen” (16) degrees, 2/25/60-----“seventeen” (17) degrees, 2/11/55-----“seven” (7) degrees, 2/02/51-----“eighteen” (18) degrees, 2/21/39-----“ten” (10) degrees, 2/18/36.
So, as you can probably tell by now, if you did not already know, FEBRUARY is still definitely WINTER, at least most of the time, but as I told my buddy the other day, “I remember one February day after we moved out to Old Military Trail, I had to go inside to cool off with a fan when I was digging in the garden around Valentine’s Day, and I heard the weatherman warning of a few days to come with “highs” in the 90s!
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