Historical Climate Data

Precipitation Summary
Station: 476827 PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, WI

1971-2000 NCDC Normals

 

Element JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC ANN
Precip (in) 1.02 1.17 2.02 3.61 3.86 4.41 3.70 4.61 3.05 2.34 2.34 1.30 33.43

Precipitation Extremes
Period of Record: 1896-2001

Month High (in) Year Low (in) Year 1-Day
Max (in)		 Date
JAN 2.95 1996 0.04 1902 1.73 01-05-1946
FEB 3.75 1915 0.02 1958 1.66 02-05-1986
MAR 5.58 1951 0.00 1994 2.80 03-31-1998
APR 6.73 1999 0.56 1934 2.15 04-17-1960
MAY 9.87 1902 0.61 1958 3.21 05-21-1902
JUN 9.98 1993 0.47 1904 4.53 06-15-1991
JUL 10.96 1940 0.30 1916 5.46 07-27-1940
AUG 12.92 1928 0.35 1941 4.74 08-23-1928
SEP 9.46 1938 0.25 1990 4.25 09-18-1907
OCT 5.63 1984 0.00 1975 2.42 10-04-1900
NOV 6.03 1934 0.00 1904 3.16 11-10-1919
DEC 2.97 1902 0.00 1898 1.40 12-27-1904
 
Annual 47.74 1993 17.19 1901 5.46 07-27-1940
Winter 5.97 1915 0.73 1964 1.73 01-05-1946
Spring 16.50 1991 3.06 1901 3.21 05-21-1902
Summer 25.24 1993 4.06 1927 5.46 07-27-1940
Fall 16.81 1961 2.12 1966 4.25 09-18-1907

Precipitation Threshold Climatology
Derived from 1971-2000 Averages


*Annual/seasonal totals may differ from the sum of the monthly totals due to rounding.

Month # Days
Total ≥ 0.01"		 # Days
Total ≥ 0.10"		 # Days
Total ≥ 0.50"		 # Days
Total ≥ 1.00"
JAN 6.2 3.5 0.3 0.0
FEB 5.2 3.1 0.7 0.2
MAR 6.9 4.6 1.3 0.3
APR 9.6 7.5 2.7 0.6
MAY 10.0 7.7 2.6 0.7
JUN 9.7 7.1 2.7 1.2
JUL 8.7 6.6 2.8 1.0
AUG 8.7 6.6 3.3 1.4
SEP 7.2 5.6 2.2 0.7
OCT 6.9 4.9 1.6 0.4
NOV 7.5 5.3 1.4 0.6
DEC 6.3 3.8 0.6 0.0
 
Annual 92.7 66.2 22.1 7.1
Winter 17.7 10.4 1.6 0.2
Spring 26.4 19.8 6.5 1.6
Summer 27.0 20.3 8.7 3.6
Fall 21.6 15.7 5.2 1.7