March 2002
Day Min Max Pcp Snow
1 17 41
2 24 43 .62 T rain - began mixed with a little snow
3 28 56 .94 T rain and a few snowflakes afterward
4 13 28 .07 1.0 many snow showers & flurries
5 5 29
6 20 55
7 33 60 T
8 34 61
9 42 58 .39
10 20 57 .18 T rain with some hail .3 inch max diameter, then snow flurries
11 17 35 T T early AM snow flurries/showers
12 28 44 T T
13 32 40 .07
14 38 61 T a little early AM mist
15 43 62 T some early AM mist
16 27 57 .14
17 22 35 .16 .6 primarily snow with snow pellets & freezing rain
18 27 32 .36 .9 snow, freezing rain, & drizzle
19 31 37
20 30 36 1.20 5.3 snow changed to rain - some sleet, snow:water ratio 6.0:1
21 16 50 .11 2.2
22 11 27 T .1
23 14 42 T T
24 25 48 T
25 28 37 .04 .2 rain, snow, and primarily snow grains
26 27 38 1.36 T freezing rain, then rain - a period mixed with sleet
27 30 43 T T early AM mist, late PM flurries
28 25 51 T T a few flurries soon after midnight
29 34 59 M M
30 41 62 M M
31 41 58 M M
The "sleet" the 26th could've been hail. This was with a rather strong thunderstorm (.39
inches reported from 8:14 - 8:27 EST at MPO with temperature of 1-2 °C - 850 mb temperature
was approximately 5 °C.). Pellets were large for sleet (estimated 3/16 inch diameter),
though they were transparent - not a bit opaque nor layered as hailstones typically are.
Thus I tentatively call it sleet.
MPO reported rain each of the last 3 days of the month - a small .01 inch event late the
29th & early the 30th, and .32 inches late day to midnight the 31st. Thus some precipitation
probably occurred here 26 days of the month.