MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for MAR. 2005 NAME: Charleswood CITY: Winnipeg STATE: MB ELEV: 235 m LAT: 49° 54' 00" N LONG: 97° 18' 00" W TEMPERATURE (°C), RAIN (mm), SNOW/SOG (cm), WIND SPEED (km/h) HEAT AVG MEAN DEG WIND DOM DAY TEMP HIGH TIME LOW TIME DAYS RAIN SNOW SPEED HIGH TIME DIR SOG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 -16.1 -5.9 3:45p -23.7 8:15a 34.4 0.0 0.0 1.0 11.3 1:15p SSW 36 2 -14.5 -8.7 3:30p -21.8 7:15a 32.8 0.0 0.0 1.8 16.1 1:00p SSW 36 3 -10.2 -4.6 4:15p -16.2 1:15a 28.5 0.0 0.0 5.6 27.4 5:45p SSW 36 4 -0.7 2.0 4:00p -5.2 12:15a 19.0 0.0 0.0 5.1 25.7 8:45a N 35 5 -0.2 7.9 3:15p -8.1 6:30a 18.5 0.0 0.0 3.7 32.2 11:45a SSW 34 6 -2.8 2.1 12:45p -10.4 11:30p 21.1 0.0 3.6 10.6 51.5 4:30p N 29 7 -13.4 -10.4 12:15a -18.6 12:00m 31.7 0.0 0.0 7.2 35.4 1:45a N 32 8 -16.0 -10.4 4:15p -23.3 6:45a 34.3 0.0 0.0 1.3 17.7 1:00p S 30 9 -10.0 -0.6 11:00p -19.0 4:30a 28.3 0.0 7.0 6.9 41.8 9:30p S 29 10 -2.7 1.2 2:30a -5.0 9:00a 21.0 1.6 0.4 11.7 61.2 5:00a N 34 11 -14.1 -4.2 12:15a -19.7 9:30p 32.4 0.0 1.6 8.4 43.5 12:00p N 34 12 -12.4 -7.0 3:15p -18.2 6:30a 30.8 0.0 0.0 2.9 32.2 12:30p N 35 13 -10.7 -7.8 1:15p -13.9 12:00m 28.9 0.0 1.6 3.7 33.8 11:00a N 35 14 -12.5 -9.3 2:45p -15.2 2:15a 30.8 0.0 0.0 2.3 19.3 11:45a SSE 36 15 -9.3 -2.5 3:15p -15.4 3:00a 27.6 0.0 0.0 1.6 19.3 2:30p SSE 36 16 -9.1 -3.9 3:15p -13.9 7:00a 27.4 0.0 0.0 5.6 20.9 8:45a N 36 17 -7.2 0.8 12:45p -15.6 7:00a 25.5 0.0 0.0 3.7 27.4 3:30p N 35 18 -9.0 -3.8 2:45p -15.0 6:30a 27.3 0.0 0.0 6.0 30.6 3:30p N 34 19 -7.6 -0.2 2:00p -14.6 6:00a 25.9 0.0 0.0 2.4 17.7 12:15a N 33 20 -6.4 1.1 2:15p -15.1 7:00a 24.7 0.0 0.0 1.4 12.9 5:00p N 32 21 -4.1 0.4 12:45p -9.7 4:15a 22.4 0.0 0.0 5.0 27.4 9:00p N 31 22 -1.3 2.2 1:15p -4.7 1:00a 19.7 0.0 1.0 3.9 22.5 10:45p ENE 30 23 -0.2 2.0 12:00p -4.4 12:00m 18.5 0.0 4.0 5.1 25.7 3:45p N 30 24 -7.0 -3.6 1:00p -12.6 12:00m 25.3 0.0 0.0 6.8 32.2 3:30p N 33 25 -9.2 -2.2 3:15p -16.8 6:15a 27.5 0.0 0.0 3.5 25.7 11:15a SW 31 26 -1.8 4.2 2:30p -6.4 12:15a 20.1 0.0 0.0 3.2 20.9 9:15a SSW 30 27 0.6 7.5 4:15p -6.1 12:15a 17.7 0.0 0.0 4.3 33.8 8:00a SSW 27 28 1.8 4.2 3:30p -2.3 12:15a 16.5 T 0.0 2.4 22.5 7:15p ENE 24 29 4.3 10.4 3:00p 0.7 11:15p 14.0 T 0.0 2.3 25.7 12:00p ENE 20 30 3.3 7.7 3:00p 0.4 12:00m 15.0 0.0 0.0 2.9 25.7 12:30p N 17 31 2.9 8.1 12:45p -1.5 6:30a 15.4 0.0 0.0 2.6 25.7 1:30p NW 15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -6.3 10.4 29 -23.7 1 762.7 1.6 19.2 4.4 61.2 10 N MARCH 2005 HIGHLIGHTS ..COLD MONTH WITH MILD FINISH.. Winter held on as long as possible this year as below normal temperatures persisted through much of March before more springlike conditions finally moved in for the last week of the month. Temperatures remained below freezing much of the first three weeks maintaining a 30 cm snow pack over southern Manitoba right through the first day of spring. Sunshine and melting temperatures in the last week finally started to erode the snowpack which wittled down to 10 to 15 cm by month's end. Temperatures ranged from a low of -23.7C on the 1st to a high of 10C on the 29th. Overall temperatures for the month averaged just below the normal of -6.1C for March. Precipitation was near normal for the month with 19.2 cm of snow and 1.6 mm of rain. However much of the precipitation fell between the 9th and 13th, with only 8 days of measurable precipitation recorded for the month. Even with the cold weather, there were frequent sunny days including a 7 day sunny stretch between the 13h and 21st.