Climate Notes For the Amarillo Area

All time record temperatures:
Highest: 108 on Jun 24, 1953 & 1990 and Jun 27-28, 1998
Lowest: -16 on Feb 12, 1899

MONTHLY MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM TEMPERATURE RECORDS
JAN Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
83 88 96 98 103 108 106 106 103 99 87 83
-11 -16 -3 13 26 38 51 48 30 12 0 -8

Notes of Interest:
All time low temperature in Texas: -23 at Seminole on Feb 8, 1933
All time official low temperature in the Texas Panhandle: -22 in Spearman on Jan 4, 1959
All time unofficial low in the Panhandle: -30, 30 miles southeast of Perryton on Feb 12, 1899
The most consecutive days with maximum temperature 32 degrees or below(since Jan 1949): 12, From Dec 30, 1978 to Jan 10, 1979
Record Precipitation:
Max for one hour: 3.36 inches on Jun 24, 1948
Max for 24 hours: 6.75 inches on May 15-16, 1951
Max for one month: 10.73 inches in Jun 1965
Max for one year: 39.75 inches in 1923
Min for one month: Zero inches
  Nov 1894, 1903 & 1989
  Dec 1889 & 1908
  Jan 1923 & 1986
  Feb 1891 & 1930
Min for one year: 9.56 inches in 1970

MONTHLY RECORD PRECIPITATION
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
2.67 2.93 4.14 6.45 9.81 10.73 7.59 7.55 6.42 7.64 5.09 4.52
1999 1903 2000 1997 1951 1965 1960 1974 1923 1941 1905 1959
MONTHLY RECORD SNOW
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
14.5 17.3 20.6 6.5 9.1 0 0 0 0.3 3.9 13.8 21.2
1983 1971 1934 1997 1917       1984 1976 2004 2000

Record Snowfall:
Max for 24 hours: 20.6 inches on Mar 25-26, 1934
Max for a single storm: 20.6 inches on Mar 25-26, 1934
Max for one month: 28.7 inches in Feb1903
Max measured snow depth: 17.0 inches on Feb 26, 1903
Max for a season: 50.9 inches in 1918-19
Record Pressures:
  Highest: 31.11 inches/1053.5 mb on Dec 24, 1983
  Lowest: 28.89 inches/979.0 mb on Feb 9, 1960

MONTHLY NORMALS
TEMPERATURE
  Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
MAX 48.9 54.1 62.2 70.6 78.6 87.4 91.0 88.7 81.8

71.8

 58.4 49.8 70.3
MIN 22.6 27.0 33.6 41.7 51.7 61.1 65.3 63.8 56.3 44.6 31.8 24.1 43.6
AVG 35.8 40.6 47.9 56.2 65.2 74.3 78.2 76.3 69.1 58.2 45.1 37.0 57.0
DEGREE DAYS
  Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
HDD 920 699 542 291 94 7 1 1 56 239 594 874 4318
CDD 0 0 2 18 90 285 405 345 173 26 0 0 1344
PRECIPITATION
  Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
LIQUID 0.63 0.55 1.13 1.33 2.50 3.28 2.68 2.94 1.88 1.50 0.68 0.61 19.71
SNOW 4.8 4.1 1.7 0.8 T 0 0 0 T 0.4 2.4 3.7 17.9
WIND
  Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
SPEED 13.0 14.0 15.5 15.4 14.6 14.2 12.7 12.0 12.9 12.9 13.1 12.9 13.6
DIRECTION SW SW SW SW S S S S S SW SW SW SW

Notes of Interest:
Average date of last 32 degrees in spring: Apr 18
Latest occurrence of latest 32 degrees in spring: May 7, 1915 & 1917
Earliest occurrence of last 32 degrees in spring: Mar 14, 1963
Average date of first 32 degrees in autumn: Oct 20
Latest occurrence of latest 32 degrees in autumn: Nov 22, 1965
Earliest occurrence of latest 32 degrees in autumn: Sep 21, 1983
Earliest occurrence of measurable snow: Sep 29, 1984 (0.3)
Latest occurrence of measurable snow: May 7, 1917 (0.4) [Total from May 6-7 was 9.1 in]
The highest wind speed recorded was 84 mph from the southwest on May 15, 1949. A tornado passed within 0.8 miles of the station.
  This was a one minute wind speed. We have only recorded peak gusts on climate forms since 1971. Since then the peak gust was
  81 mph from the southwest on Apr 19, 1973.