Preliminary Daily Summary(2008/3/1 - 2008/3/31)


Station:	LAKE CHARLES RGNL AP	State:	LA	ID:	165078
Latitude:	30.12 degrees	Longitude:	-93.23 degrees	Elevation:	9 feet

Temperature									Precipitation				Wind(kts)
Temperature									Water Equiv	DFN	Snow/ Ice	Snow/ Depth	Avg Spd	Res Spd	Res Dir	Peak Gust	Weather Occurrences	Obs
Day	Max	Min	Avg	DFN	Dpt	Rel Hum	HDD	CDD	Water Equiv	DFN	Snow/ Ice	Snow/ Depth	Avg Spd	Res Spd	Res Dir	Peak Gust	Weather Occurrences	Obs
03/01/08	76	59	68	10	57	78	0	3	0.00	-0.11	M	M	4.0	3.1	152	M x	1 2	24
03/02/08	77	58	68	10	58	75	0	3	0.00 T	-0.11	M	M	12.4	12.2	147	32 o	1 2 4	24
03/03/08	74	46	60	2	57	78	5	0	0.19	0.08	M	M	14.3	5.7	193	31 i	4 8 1	24
03/04/08	62	39	51	-7	29	53	14	0	0.00	-0.11	M	M	9.1	8.3	298	28 v		24
03/05/08	67	36	52	-7	40	64	13	0	0.00	-0.11	M	M	5.1	4.3	165	M x		24
03/06/08	71	47	59	0	50	76	6	0	0.71	0.60	M	M	6.6	3.6	76	M x	1 2 5 4	24
03/07/08	52	34	43	-16	36	71	22	0	0.00 T	-0.11	M	M	12.6	12.1	321	36 o	8 4	24
03/08/08	58	34	46	-13	28	53	19	0	0.00 T	-0.11	M	M	4.4	2.0	282	M x		24
03/09/08	70	39	55	-5	39	60	10	0	0.00	-0.11	M	M	7.5	7.3	119	M x		24
03/10/08	67	50	59	-1	52	83	6	0	2.09	1.98	M	M	8.4	5.8	49	30 w	1 4	24
03/11/08	66	48	57	-3	48	73	8	0	0.00	-0.12	M	M	5.5	5.3	351	M x		24
03/12/08	70	42	56	-4	43	66	9	0	0.00	-0.12	M	M	2.7	2.0	207	M x	1	24
03/13/08	73	47	60	0	54 a	74 a	5	0	0.01	-0.11	M	M	7.2 a	6.7	161	M x	1	23
03/14/08	78	67	73	12	63	78	0	8	0.00	-0.12	M	M	9.7	8.9	215	M x	1 8	23
03/15/08	90	65	78	17	52	51	0	13	0.00	-0.12	M	M	8.9	2.9	264	M x	8	23
03/16/08	78	55	67	6	49	54	0	2	0.00	-0.12	M	M	12.9	11.7	97	26 w		23
03/17/08	82	65	74	13	66	76	0	9	0.00 T	-0.12	M	M	18.5	17.8	143	38 i	1 8	23
03/18/08	81	64	73	12	66	75	0	8	0.05	-0.07	M	M	22.5	20.7	154	45.0 i	8	23
03/19/08	68	45	57	-5	44	60	8	0	0.00	-0.12	M	M	10.6	8.3	319	32 p		23
03/20/08	71	41	56	-6	37	58	9	0	0.00	-0.12	M	M	2.2	1.5	91	M x		23
03/21/08	71	43	57	-5	46	67	8	0	0.00	-0.12	M	M	3.2	2.7	179	M x	1	23
03/22/08	78	50	64	2	49	64	1	0	0.00	-0.12	M	M	4.2	3.2	39	M x	1 8	23
03/23/08	71	50	61	-2	33	37	4	0	0.00	-0.12	M	M	12.3	12.0	29	26 v		23
03/24/08	67	43	55	-8	33	49	10	0	0.00	-0.11	M	M	6.0	4.1	61	M x		23
03/25/08	70	43	57	-6	43	60	8	0	0.00	-0.11	M	M	6.8	6.2	160	M x		23
03/26/08	76	53	65	2	55	71	0	0	0.00	-0.11	M	M	8.5	8.1	162	M x		23
03/27/08	76	62	69	6	58 a	72 a	0	4	0.00	-0.11	M	M	7.6 a	6.8	181	M x	1	23
03/28/08	M	M	M	-	62	75	M	M	0.00	-0.11	M	M	5.4	5.2	173	M x	8 1 2	23
03/29/08	M	M	M	-	63 a	75 a	M	M	M	-	M	M	5.4 a	4.1	157	M x	1	23
03/30/08	M	M	M	-	66	77	M	M	M	-	M	M	11.5	11.2	149	28 v	1 4 5	23
03/31/08	M	M	M	-	64 s	85 s	M	M	M	-	M	M	13.0 s	2.7	145	M x		5
Ag/Sum	71.9	49.1	60.5				165	50	3.05
Norm	71.3	50.8	61.0				163.0	49.0	3.54
DFN	0.6	-1.7	-0.5				2	1	-0.49

Temperature Data		Precipitation Data		Weather Occurrences Legend
AVERAGE MONTHLY	60.5	TOTAL FOR THE MONTH	3.05	1 = Fog/Mist
DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL	-0.5	DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL	-0.49	2 = Heavy fog
HIGHEST 90 ON 03/15		GREATEST 24HR TOTAL	2.09	3 = Drizzle
LOWEST 34 ON 03/07		NUMBER OF DAYS WITH		4 = Rain
NUMBER OF DAYS WITH		- 0.01 INCH OR MORE PRECIP	4	5 = Thunderstorm
MAX 32 OR BELOW	0.0	- 0.10 INCH OR MORE PRECIP	3	6 = Freezing Rain
MAX 90 OR ABOVE	1.0	- 0.50 INCH OR MORE PRECIP	2	7 = Snow
MIN 32 OR BELOW	0.0	- 1.00 INCH OR MORE PRECIP	1	8 = Haze
MIN 0 OR BELOW	0.0			9 = blowing snow
HEATING DEGREE DAYS(BASE 65)				x = tornado
TOTAL THIS MONTH	165
DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL	2	T -- trace		obs -- number of hourly observations received
COOLING DEGREE DAYS(BASE 65)		M -- estimated
TOTAL THIS MONTH	50
DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL	1			values use Daily Normals calculated by SRCC