CXUS55 KREV 011829 CCA CLMRNO RNOCLMRNO 000 CLIMATE REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 1105 AM PDT MON OCT 1 2001 ................................... ...THE RENO TAHOE AIRPORT CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 2001... SEPTEMBER 2001 WAS THE WARMEST SEPTEMBER IN RENO SINCE TEMPERATURE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1888. WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 68.0 F... THIS SEPTEMBER BESTED THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 67.1 F SET IN 1935. HOWEVER...NO NEW RECORD MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES WERE SET. BUT A RECORD MAXIMUM VALUE WAS TIED ON THE 22ND WHEN THE 91 DEGREE F READING TIED MAXIMUMS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED IN 1974, 87 AND 92. PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH TOTALED ONLY 0.09 INCHES...A FULL THREE TENTHS OF AN INCH BELOW THE SEPTEMBER NORMAL. THIS WAS THE 5TH MONTH IN A ROW WITH BELOW NORMAL PRECIPITATION AND COMES AT THE END OF THE DRIEST WATER YEAR (OCT. 1ST TO SEP. 30TH) ON RECORD FOR RENO SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1872. THE WATER YEAR TOTAL OF 2.13 INCHES WAS ONLY 28 PERCENT OF THE 7.53 INCH NORMAL. CLIMATE NORMAL PERIOD 1961 TO 1990 CLIMATE RECORD PERIOD 1888 TO 2001 WEATHER OBSERVED NORMAL DEPART LAST YEAR'S VALUE DATE(S) VALUE FROM VALUE DATE(S) NORMAL ............................................................ TEMPERATURE (F) RECORD HIGH 101 09/02/1950 LOW 20 09/19/1965 09/18/1965 HIGHEST 93 09/01 101 -8 93 09/14 09/02 LOWEST 43 09/29 20 23 37 09/24 09/25 AVG. MAXIMUM 85.5 79.5 6.0 81.0 AVG. MINIMUM 50.5 41.3 9.2 46.0 MEAN 68.0 60.4 7.6 63.0 DAYS MAX GE 90 7 0 7 3 DAYS MAX LE 32 0 0 0 0 DAYS MIN LE 32 0 0 0 0 DAYS MIN LE 0 0 0 0 0 PRECIPITATION (INCHES) RECORD MAXIMUM 2.41 1918 MINIMUM 0.00 1974 TOTALS 0.09 0.39 -0.30 0.04 DAILY AVG. 0.00 0.01 -0.01 MM DAYS GE .01 3 30 -27 2 DAYS GE .10 0 0 0 0 DAYS GE .50 0 0 0 0 DAYS GE 1.00 0 0 0 0 GREATEST 24 HR. TOTAL 0.06 09/25 TO 09/25 0.03 09/22 TO 09/22 STORM TOTAL MM MM (MM/DD(HH)) MM MM SNOWFALL (INCHES) RECORDS TOTAL MM MM TOTALS MM MM DEGREE_DAYS HEATING TOTAL 10 178 -168 103 SINCE 7/1 10 211 -201 MM COOLING TOTAL 106 40 66 62 SINCE 1/1 1027 508 519 MM FREEZE DATES RECORD EARLIEST MM LATEST MM EARLIEST MM LATEST MM ............................................................ WIND (MPH) AVERAGE WIND SPEED 5.3 RESULTANT WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 1/282 HIGHEST WIND SPEED/DIRECTION 30/170 DATE 09/25 HIGHEST GUST SPEED/DIRECTION 37/170 DATE 09/25 WEATHER CONDITIONS. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH THUNDERSTORM 1 MIXED PRECIP 0 HEAVY RAIN 0 RAIN 0 LIGHT RAIN 3 FREEZING RAIN 0 LT FREEZING RAIN 0 HAIL 0 HEAVY SNOW 0 SNOW 0 LIGHT SNOW 0 SLEET 0 FOG 0 FOG W/VIS <= 1/4 MILE 0 HAZE 3 - INDICATES NEGATIVE NUMBERS. R INDICATES RECORD WAS SET OR TIED. MM INDICATES DATA IS MISSING. T INDICATES TRACE OF PRECIPITATION.