Weather — January 2013

Date Day Low
(°F)
High
(°F)
Precipitation (inches)
1/31Thu 13.8°20.3°Snow 0.2″
Temperature steady overnight, with a bit of light snow, then falling; cloudy with west winds. Just a touch warmer in late morning under some sun, then cloudy with falling temperatures again, and more flurries. Clearing and colder after sundown (3.2° at 11 p.m.)
1/30Wed 18.3°34.9°Rain 0.30″ to 8 a.m.; Snow 3.8″
Steady or falling temperatures; rain changing to snow at 8 a.m. with calm wind. Winds north by noon and northwest after 3 p.m. Snow light and intermittent from 1 to 8 p.m.
1/29Tue 34.5°58.5°Rain 1.40″ (since 11 p.m. Monday)
Low Monday evening (before T-storms). Temperatures rising sharply at sunrise, along with south winds and another thunderstorm (0.76″ so far). Then quiet until 2:30 p.m. when more rain started, winds shifted to north, and temperatures dropped. Still raining at midnight, and 34.7°
1/28Mon 34°43.3°Rain (N/A)
Drizzle midnight to 4:30 a.m. Early morning fog with light west breezes. Calm in early afternoon, then becoming partly cloudy for a while. Increasing clouds after 4 p.m. with east breezes. Strong thunderstorms late, with occasionally heavy rain
1/27Sun 22.5°34°Ice/snow 0.2″
Cloudy in the morning, with a southeast breeze. Light snow, sleet and freezing drizzle after noon, with south breezes. Temperatures rising; high at midnight
1/26Sat 9.7°25.0°
Fair and calm in the morning. Cloudy in the evening, with light southeast breezes
1/25Fri 18.3°29.1°Snow 0.3″
Light snow before sunrise. Cloudy with south breezes rotating to west by mid-afternoon and northwest by evening. Some flurries late afternoon and again in the evening
1/24Thu 1.4°19.9°
Mostly cloudy and calm; light southeast breezes in evening, with rising temperatures (high at midnight)
1/23Wed 7.3°21.6°Snow 0.2″
Low temperature late Tuesday evening. Light snow after 7 a.m. Southwest winds gradually rotating clockwise to north by 8 p.m.
1/22Tue -2.2°12.0°Snow (trace)
Light snow at the 3 a.m. hour. Wind chills around -15° early. Sunny and cold, with west breezes shifting to northwest by late afternoon
1/21Mon 5.2°10.4°
Airport reported light snow at the 3 a.m. hour. Mostly sunny, cold, and blustery, with west to northwest winds. Wind chills around -15° late
1/20Sun 9.9°19.2°
Fair and much colder, with northwest winds gradually diminishing early, then shifting to west in the afternoon, with increasing clouds
1/19Sat 35.6°46.2°
Cloudy early, with southwest breezes increasing. Winds shifting to west and rising to gale force after 7 p.m. with temperatures plummeting thereafter. ~ 20.8° by 11:10 p.m.
1/18Fri 15.6°41.9°
Cloudy early, with southerly winds increasing. Becoming fair by midday, with strong and gusty southwest winds
1/17Thu 17.2°26.4°
Fair and calm early; then northwest breezes becoming west after 1 p.m.
1/16Wed 16.2°33.8°Snow (trace)
Fair early, with south to southwest breezes. Becoming cloudy from mid-morning onward, with stronger southwest winds shifting to west after 1 p.m. and gradually diminishing. Few flurries in mid-afternoon. Winds becoming north late; still warm (30.6° at 11:30 p.m.)
1/15Tue 11.3°28.9°
Fair and calm early; light south to southwest breezes after 9 a.m.
1/14Mon 7.9°23.9°
Sunny, with light west breezes becoming southwest after 3 p.m.
1/13Sun 21.4°24.4°
Mostly cloudy, with northwest breezes becoming west by late morning; colder late
1/12Sat 25.2°50.7°Snow 0.6″
Early high before sunrise, then temperatures falling sharply after 6:30 a.m. Mostly cloudy, with west to southwest breezes. Light snow after 9:30 p.m. with winds shifting to northwest
1/11Fri 35.6°50°Rain (N/A)*
Drizzle giving way to dense fog early in the morning, with calm wind. Southerly breezes from mid-morning onward, increasing after 3 p.m. Temperatures nearly steady but rising late
1/10Thu 21.9°43.5°Rain (N/A)*
Mostly cloudy and calm early; east to southeast winds from mid-morning onward. Light rain after 5 p.m. with steady temperatures around 36°
1/9Wed 29.7°39.9°
Sunny with west breezes becoming stronger southwest by noon
1/8Tue 24.8°43.2°
Fair early, with a light south breeze; stronger breezes after 1 p.m.
1/7Mon 16.0°38.7°
Fair, with south breezes becoming stronger southwest by midday
1/6Sun 21.6°31.3°
Becoming mostly sunny, with northwest breezes
1/5Sat 16.2°36.3°Snow 0.6″
Clear and calm early; becoming cloudy with strong south to southwest breezes by midday. Light snow from 2:30 until after 6 p.m.
1/4Fri 10.4°30.4°
Fair and breezy, from the west or southwest
1/3Thu 23.5°29.1°Snow (trace)
Cloudy with west breezes; a few flurries around 10 a.m. Clearing and colder at sundown
1/2Wed 6.1°27.1°Snow (trace)
Becoming sunny, with south breezes becoming southwest after 2 p.m. Cloudy after 4 p.m. Light snow around 10 p.m.
1/1Tue 4.5°17.4°
Fair and cold, with light north to northwest breezes shifting to west after 11 a.m.

*Rock County Airport reported 0.87″ of rain on January 10 and 0.15″ on January 11.