Happy New Year! goodbye to warm 2006

Seems a good time to get back on track with this blog. Here is the dawn of 2007 out of the window by the computer.

I just was checking the weather (chilly 31° just now) and found this note from the National Weather Service. Apparently in spite of the fire-in-the-fireplace weather Christmas week, it's been the warmest year ever for North Texas. Also one of the driest, though Mother Nature tried her last-minute best to correct this a couple of days ago with about three inches of rain. Lille Tom was NOT happy. Fortunately a trip to the library the day before had netted him several videos, but still! He wanted Eureka Playground! And boy, by the end of the day we wanted it too.

Statement as of 4:00 am CST on January 1, 2007 [from NWS]

... 2006 warmest year on record for Dallas/Fort Worth...

The average temperature for 2006 bested the drought year of 1999 for the warmest on record in Dallas/Fort Worth. The average high temperature was also the warmest on record... nearly an entire degree above fellow drought year 1954.

Most of the years listed below were drought years with mild Winters.

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Dallas/Fort Worth

Warmest mean temperatures warmest average high temperatures

1    69.3    2006*   1    80.4 2006*
2    68.6    1999     2    79.5 1954
3    68.3    1998    3    79.3 1999
4    68.2    1933    4    79.2 1956
5    68.1    1954    5    78.7 2005
     68.1      1934         78.7 1952
7    67.9    2005          78.7 1934
      67.9    1921          78.7 1933
9    67.8    1925    9    78.5 1980
10  67.7    1939          78.5 1939

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For Waco... 2006 was the warmest year since the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s. The average high temperature for the year was the warmest on record.

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Waco

Warmest mean temperatures warmest average high temperatures

1    70.8    1933    1    81.7    2006*
2    70.3    1925    2    81.2    1933
3    70.2    1921    3    80.9    1999
4    69.9    1934          80.9    1956
      69.9    1927    5   80.8    1954
6    69.4    1922         80.8   1925
7    69.3    2006*       80.8    1904
8   69.1    1954          80.8    1902
9    69.0    1999    9   80.6    1921
      69.0    1931   10  80.5    1990
      69.0    1923