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PWRS HEADLINES & NOTES: MARCH 2021 KPWR STATION BASIC STATS OF CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA: (March station database to 1977) ABOVE-NORMAL AVERAGE TEMPS 53.5° (+3.2°) BELOW-NORMAL RAIN 2.60" (-1.38"/ 65%) 2021 RAIN TOTAL 12.93" (+1.95"/118%) NWS Wakefield (KAKQ): General Review of Winter 2020-2021 NWS Wakefield (KAKQ): Area Annual Temperature & Precipitation Data Summary 2020            SPRING SAFETY WEATHER-READY NATION BEACH & RIP CURRENT FORECASTS Important "Know Before You Go" Info   ARCHIVE OF DAILY DATA SUMMARIES   PWRS NEW STATION RECORDS   PWRS MONTHLY & YEAR-TO-DATE CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARIES   PWRS MONTHLY ALMANAC   WEATHER DESK MORNING UPDATES: -> Past 24-hours Observations -> Past 5-days & Monthly Overview -> Daily Summaries -> Monthly Summaries    NWS AKQ SPECIAL STATEMENTS ARCHIVE    NWS AKQ PORTSMOUTH SPECIFIC SPECIAL STATEMENTS    NWS AKQ DAILY PRECIPITATION SUMMARY    PWRS APRSWXNET OBSERVATION PAGE PWRS Main Weather Subpages observations now & then; real-time observations from West Cradock in Portsmouth, Virginia, and the world quick data links to the data files we update daily (click each phrase): desktop graphics | past 24-hours obs | accumulated monthly obs | today's preliminary summary | yesterday's summary | current monthly summary | monthly LCD summaries | graph of obs past 5-days | station day-by-day almanac webcams cams to check local, time-lapse video, archived movies from the weather observation window trends weather trends shown in graphical plots climate database daily, monthly, yearly, long-term, extremes & normals forecasts & tools get your forecast & tools for forecast here including discussions, maps, conversion calculators, satellite images astronomical data, tides marine forecasts & tides coastal waterway forecasts & tidal predictions, discussions, maps, conversion calculators, satellite images astronomical data, tides model projections computer model analyses and projections monthly summary current data updated daily radars & satellite imagery local, Virginia, national, and beyond! severe weather severe weather watches and warnings locally and across the United States tropical weather when the tropics are alive, so are we! updates the files we update each day Other Station Quickpaths: PWRS Datalogger Raw Data: [unedited] Today       Yesterday Full Desktop Display All Data Summary Almanac - Current Month Station Daily Records   Search PWRS / WEB for More Weather Enter your search terms Submit search form Search our site for data & documents below: Search this site or the web powered by FreeFind Site search Web search Copyright 1995-present by PWRS Portsmouth, Virginia	West Cradock Portsmouth, Virginia [ more cams with a click here! ]      MEDIA-READY GRAPHICS Click to check strip chart for past 30-days.   Most recent Expanded Station Observations all times are Eastern Time (US) Updated @ 6:59pm ET Visibilities Visibility @ KSFQ Suffolk Municipal Airport - Suffolk, Virginia 10 statute miles Visibility @ at KNGU Naval Air Station - Chambers Field - Norfolk, Virginia 7 statute miles Visibility @ at KORF Norfolk International Airport - Norfolk, Virginia 10 statute miles Visibility @ at KCPK Chesapeake Regional Airport - Chesapeake, Virginia 10 statute miles Temperatures Current: 58.9° at 6:59pm Comfort Level: Cool Max: 68.5° at 2:02pm Min: 55.0° at 7:08am 24-hour Difference: -20.0° Daily Average: 61.9° Wind Chill: 58.3° at 6:59pm Min: 54.7° at 8:03am Heat Index: 64.4° at 6:59pm Max: 71.5° at 1:53pm Dew Point Current: 55.7° at 6:59pm Max:  61.0° at 12:02am Min:  52.7° at 7:08am Relative Humidity Current: 89.0% at 6:59pm Max:  98.0% at 8:01am Min:  66.0% at 2:08pm Wind Speed & Direction Current max wind speed: NE  15 mph | 6:59pm Max:  20 mph at 9:32am Daily Average Direction: 315° Barometric (Sea Level) Pressure Current: 29.738" & Rising at 6:59pm Rate: 0.023" past hour 24-hour Difference: 0.282" Max: 29.738" at 6:57pm Min: 29.504" at 12:00am Average: 29.715" Rainfall Hourly: 0.00" at 6:59pm Rain Rate: 0.00" per hour Daily: 0.00" thru 6:59pm Past 24-hours ending 6:59pm: 0.00" Monthly: 1.42" Yearly: 14.35" Sun & Moon  Sunrise: 6:33am  Sunset: 7:36pm Moonrise: 7:06am Moonset: 8:17pm     Snowfall 2020-2021 Season Station Total: 3.4" 3.0" on 1/28/21 0.4" on 1/31/21 TRACE on 2/1/21 TRACE on 2/2/21  MARC Snowfall Totals Mid-Atlantic  WeatherStreet.com Virginia Snow Depth & Snow Accumulation

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