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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
949 AM CST SUN JAN 3 2016

...WARMEST DECEMBER ON RECORD IN CROSSVILLE...

...WETTEST DECEMBER SINCE 1991...

CROSSVILLE'S TEMPERATURE AVERAGED 51.5 DEGREES WHICH IS 13.0
DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL...MAKING DECEMBER 2015 THE WARMEST ON
RECORD...HELD PREVIOUSLY BY 1984.

THE AVERAGE HIGH WAS 59.4 DEGREES AND THE AVERAGE LOW
WAS 43.7 DEGREES. THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE WAS 73 DEGREES ON THE
27TH AND THE COLDEST WAS 24 DEGREES ON THE 19TH.

CROSSVILLE BROKE ITS ALL-TIME RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR THE
MONTH OF DECEMBER WITH 73 DEGREES ON THE 27TH. PREVIOUS RECORD WAS
72 DEGREES IN 2007.

FIVE DAILY HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE BROKEN AND ONE TIED IN
DECEMBER...AND SIX HIGHEST DAILY MINIMUM TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE
BROKEN.

CROSSVILLE ALSO TIED ITS ALL-TIME MONTHLY RECORD FOR THE WARMEST
MINIMUM TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER WITH 64 DEGREES ON
THE 27TH...SET PREVIOUSLY IN 1982.

CROSSVILLE HAD ITS WARMEST TEMPERATURE EVER ON CHRISTMAS WITH A
HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 68 DEGREES.

RAINFALL TOTALED 9.71 INCHES WHICH IS 4.76 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL.
THIS WAS THE MOST RAIN TO FALL IN THE MONTH OF DECEMBER SINCE
1991 WHEN 11.48 INCHES FELL. THE WETTEST DECEMBER ON RECORD WAS IN
1990 WHEN 12.75 INCHES OF RAIN FELL.

THE GREATEST RAINFALL DURING A 24 HOUR PERIOD WAS 2.69 INCHES ON
DECEMBER 25TH AND 26TH.

CROSSVILLE HAD ITS WETTEST CHRISTMAS ON RECORD IN 2015 WITH 2.61
INCHES...BREAKING THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 1.94 INCHES IN SET IN
1973.

THERE WERE 3 DAYS WITH THUNDERSTORMS.

THE AVERAGE WIND SPEED WAS 6.5 MILES AN HOUR. THE FASTEST GUST WAS
44 MILES AN HOUR ON THE 13TH.

THERE WERE 19 DAYS WITH FOG...3 DAYS WITH DENSE FOG.



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