Galeton December weather report and year ends totals

December 2012 was an interesting weather month. 

The month started out fairly warm, then it turned colder. It wasn't exceptionally cold, just a
fairly normal December cold period. We had 19.8" of snow and 5.46" of
melted precipitation. Last year we had .8"of snow (not quite an inch) and 3
24" of rain.

We had 11 days with 1" or more of snow on the ground with 13" on the 29th
and 30th.On the evening of the 20th we had a very heavy, wet snow (2") with
one inch of moisture . This event brought down tree branches and caused bad
driving condition. Galeton power was off for 13 hours. We had heavy fog on
seven mornings.

For the year 2012 we had 39.24" of rainfall and melted precipitation which
is 3.05" below normal and 40.7" of snowfall which is 13" below normal

Henry W. Lush
NWS Observer