The big January chill

After enjoying a relatively balmy January thaw last week, Springfield just experienced 48 hours of very cold weather. Although the thermometer barely made it down to below zero one night, the accompanying wind with gusts up to 30 m.p.h made it feel truly arctic out.

Springfield Hartness State Airport
Weather Observations - January 27 to January 30, 2010

D a t e	Time (est)	Wind (mph)	Vis. (mi.)	Weather	Sky Cond.	Temperature (ºF)				Pressure		Precipitation (in.)
						Air	Dwpt	6 hour		altimeter (in.)	sea level (mb)	1 hr	3 hr	6 hr
								Max.	Min.
30	11:54	N 7	10.00	Fair	CLR	11	-7			30.16	1022.9
30	10:54	E 3	10.00	Fair	CLR	5	-9			30.21	1024.6
30	09:54	E 6	10.00	Fair	CLR	2	-10			30.22	1024.8
30	08:54	N 5	10.00	Fair	CLR	1	-12			30.23	1025.1
30	07:54	NW 7	10.00	A Few Clouds	FEW021	-1	-13			30.23	1025.3
30	06:54	W 8	10.00	Fair	CLR	-1	-13	1	-2	30.22	1024.7
30	05:54	NW 6	10.00	A Few Clouds	FEW027	-1	-13			30.20	1024.2
30	04:54	W 6	10.00	Fair	CLR	-1	-14			30.18	1023.6
30	03:54	W 10 G 20	10.00	Fair	CLR	-0	-15			30.18	1023.5
30	02:54	W 9	10.00	Fair	CLR	-0	-15			30.19	1023.6
30	01:54	W 12 G 17	10.00	Fair	CLR	1	-15			30.17	1023.1
30	00:54	Calm	10.00	Fair	CLR	1	-15	7	1	30.16	1022.6
29	23:54	Vrbl 6 G 22	10.00	Fair	CLR	2	-14			30.14	1021.9
29	22:54	W 9	10.00	Fair	CLR	2	-14			30.14	1022.3
29	21:54	Calm	10.00	Fair	CLR	3	-14			30.15	1022.6
29	20:54	W 13 G 21	10.00	Fair	CLR	4	-14			30.13	NA
29	19:54	Vrbl 5 G 28	10.00	Fair	CLR	6	-14			30.12	NA
29	18:54	W 15 G 24	10.00	Fair	CLR	7	-14	12	7	30.12	NA
29	17:54	NW 12 G 26	10.00	Fair	CLR	8	-14			30.10	NA
29	16:54	W 20 G 29	10.00	Fair	CLR	10	-14			30.10	NA
29	15:54	NW 15 G 25	10.00	Fair	CLR	11	-14			30.08	NA
29	14:54	W 20 G 30	10.00	Fair	CLR	11	-14			30.07	NA
29	13:54	NW 12 G 23	10.00	Fair	CLR	10	-15			30.07	NA
29	12:54	NW 14 G 24	10.00	Fair	CLR	10	-15			30.05	NA
29	11:54	NW 9 G 21	10.00	Fair	CLR	9	-13			30.06	NA
29	10:54	W 17 G 30	10.00	Fair	CLR	8	-13			30.09	NA
29	09:54	Vrbl 5	NA	NA	NA	8	-12			30.09	NA
28	15:51	W 15 G 23	0.25	Heavy Snow Freezing Fog	BKN003 OVC016	29	26			29.73	1007.5	0.02	0.02
28	14:54	SE 5	3.00	Light Snow	OVC014	30	25			29.71	1007.1
28	13:54	SE 3	2.50	Light Snow	BKN016 OVC025	29	24			29.74	1008.1
28	12:54	E 5	2.00	Light Snow	OVC016	28	23	28	18	29.78	1009.2
28	11:54	SE 5	4.00	Light Snow	BKN018 OVC024	28	22			29.84	1011.5
28	10:54	SE 6	10.00	Overcast	SCT022 BKN048 OVC080	27	20			29.89	1013.0
28	09:54	S 6	7.00	Mostly Cloudy	SCT029 SCT037 BKN046	26	19			29.92	1014.2
28	08:54	Calm	9.00	Overcast	FEW070 OVC080	22	18			29.95	1015.0
28	07:54	Calm	8.00	Fair	CLR	20	17			29.96	1015.6
28	06:54	Calm	9.00	A Few Clouds	FEW120	19	15	21	17	29.98	1016.1
28	05:54	Calm	10.00	A Few Clouds	FEW110	19	15			30.00	1016.9
28	04:54	Calm	9.00	Fair	CLR	17	14			30.02	1017.5
28	03:54	Calm	10.00	Fair	CLR	18	14			30.04	1018.2
28	02:54	Calm	10.00	Fair	CLR	18	15			30.05	1018.4
28	01:54	Calm	8.00	Fair	CLR	20	16			30.04	1018.1
28	00:54	Calm	9.00	Fair	CLR	20	16	29	20	30.05	1018.3
27	23:54	Calm	8.00	A Few Clouds	FEW045	22	17			30.04	1018.1
27	22:54	Calm	10.00	Partly Cloudy	SCT055	23	18			30.06	1018.7
27	21:54	Calm	10.00	A Few Clouds	FEW049	24	18			30.05	1018.5
27	20:54	Calm	10.00	Fair	CLR	25	18			30.05	1018.3
27	19:54	Calm	10.00	A Few Clouds	FEW045	26	18			30.04	1018.2
27	18:54	Calm	10.00	Partly Cloudy	SCT047	27	18	34	27	30.04	1017.9
27	17:54	Calm	10.00	Mostly Cloudy	BKN050	31	18			30.01	1017.0
27	16:54	W 10	10.00	Overcast	OVC050	33	18			29.99	1016.3
27	15:54	Calm	10.00	Overcast	OVC050	33	22			29.98	1016.0
27	14:54	SW 5	10.00	Overcast	SCT035 OVC047	33	21			29.97	1015.6
27	13:54	NW 5	10.00	Overcast	BKN037 OVC044	34	21			29.95	1014.9
27	12:54	NW 7	9.00	Light Snow	BKN039 OVC047	33	22	36	32	29.94	1014.4
D a t e	Time (est)	Wind (mph)	Vis. (mi.)	Weather	Sky Cond.	Air	Dwpt	Max.	Min.	altimeter (in.)	sea level (mb)	1 hr	3 hr	6 hr
								6 hour
						Temperature (ºF)				Pressure		Precipitation (in.)

Data is from the National Weather Service For the latest NWS 3 day Springfield weather history, go here: www.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KVSF.html