Friday, January 12, 2018

2017 Weather in Review

The highest temperature recorded at Leslie Park Golf Course during 2017 was 91.9 degrees on September 22nd. It was one of six days that got above the 90 degree mark. The lowest temperature was just - 11.7 degrees on December 28th. Four other days had lows below zero, all of them coming in the last week of December. Thirty-seven days never got above the freezing mark in 2017, while 104 days dipped below 32 degrees at some point.

For the year, the golf course received 36.01 inches of rain, which is almost 7 inches more than 2016. The most rain in a single day was 2.07 inches on July 7th. October took the gold for most rain during the year with 5.58 inches, April took Silver with 4.29 inches, followed closely by July with 4.13 inches. There were 115 days with at least a trace of rain, while seven days had over an inch in a 24 hour period.

The average wind speed for the year was 2.6 mph. The highest sustained wind speed was 41.0 mph on March 8th.

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