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PWRS HEADLINES & NOTES: DECEMBER 2020 KPWR STATION BASIC STATS OF CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA: (December database to 1976) DECEMBER 2020 WAS THE 7th WETTEST DECEMBER IN THE DATABASE TO 1976 SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL AVERAGE TEMP 44.1° (-0.7°) ABOVE NORMAL RAIN 4.87" (+1.52"/ 145%) 2020 RAIN TOTAL 61.42" (+10.50"/121%) 2020 WAS THE 8th WETTEST YEAR IN THE DATABASE TO 1976 NWS Wakefield (KAKQ): Area Annual Temperature & Precipitation Data Summary 2020            WINTER 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 WEATHER UNDERGROUND DASHBOARD 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! ] Some images may not be viewable in early version browsers Ghent Square Earthcam - Norfolk, Virginia 23507-1866 [ This streaming image may not be viewable in early version web browsers. ]      MEDIA-READY GRAPHICS Click to check strip chart for past 30-days.   Most recent Expanded Station Observations all times are Eastern Time (US) Updated @ 10:02pm ET Visibilities Visibility @ KSFQ Suffolk Municipal Airport - Suffolk, Virginia 10 statute miles Visibility @ at KNGU Naval Air Station - Chambers Field - Norfolk, Virginia 10 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: 39.7° at 10:02pm Comfort Level: Cool Max: 50.0° at 2:42pm Min: 33.4° at 7:20am 24-hour Difference: 1.5° Daily Average: 40.8° Wind Chill: 38.0° at 10:02pm Min: 25.8° at 8:18am Heat Index: 42.0° at 10:02pm Max: 50.5° at 2:42pm Dew Point Current: 28.5° at 10:02pm Max:  36.4° at 10:40am Min:  27.7° at 5:00pm Relative Humidity Current: 64.0% at 10:02pm Max:  91.0% at 8:20am Min:  45.0% at 1:44pm Wind Speed & Direction Current max wind speed: WNW  8 mph | 10:02pm Max:  29 mph at 1:20pm Daily Average Direction: 225° Barometric (Sea Level) Pressure Current: 30.078" & Rising at 10:02pm Rate: 0.012" past hour 24-hour Difference: 0.242" Max: 30.083" at 9:28pm Min: 29.810" at 4:00am Average: 30.066" Rainfall Hourly: 0.00" at 10:02pm Rain Rate: 0.00" per hour Daily: 0.00" thru 10:02pm Past 24-hours ending 10:02pm: 0.00" Monthly: 1.23" Yearly: 1.23" Sun & Moon  Sunrise: 7:14am  Sunset: 5:14pm Moonrise: 10:45am Moonset: 10:56pm     Station Seasonal Snowfall 2020-2021 Season Total: 0.0" "waiting" 2019-2020 Season Total: 1.5"

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