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Soil Survey of Lincoln County, West Virginia
Table 1.--Temperature and Precipitation
(Recorded in the period 1971-2000 at Logan, West Virginia.)
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| Temperature | Precipitation
|_________________________________________________________|_____________________________________
| | | | 2 years in | | |2 years in 10|Average|
| | | | 10 will have-- | Average | | will have-- |number |
Month |Average|Average| |_______________________|number of| |_____________|of days|Average
| daily | daily |Average| Maximum | Minimum | growing |Average| Less | More | with | snow-
|maximum|minimum| |temperature|temperature| degree | |than--|than--| 0.10 | fall
| | | | higher | lower | days* | | | |inch or|
| | | | than-- | than-- | | | | | more |
_________|_______|_______|_______|___________|___________|_________|_______|______|______|_______|_______
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| o F | o F | o F | o F | o F | Units | In | In | In | | In
| | | | | | | | | | |
January--| 44.0 | 25.9 | 35.0 | 73 | -3 | 70 | 3.42 | 1.94 | 4.67 | 8 | 6.8
| | | | | | | | | | |
February-| 48.8 | 27.6 | 38.2 | 76 | 3 | 100 | 3.52 | 2.42 | 4.58 | 8 | 5.6
| | | | | | | | | | |
March----| 58.2 | 34.3 | 46.3 | 84 | 13 | 245 | 4.17 | 2.48 | 5.57 | 9 | 2.2
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April----| 69.1 | 41.9 | 55.5 | 90 | 25 | 467 | 3.60 | 2.03 | 5.11 | 8 | .0
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May------| 77.1 | 51.4 | 64.3 | 92 | 34 | 746 | 5.07 | 3.22 | 6.83 | 9 | .0
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June-----| 84.2 | 61.2 | 72.7 | 96 | 46 | 977 | 4.78 | 2.91 | 6.59 | 8 | .0
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July-----| 87.4 | 65.9 | 76.6 | 97 | 53 | 1,133 | 5.00 | 3.35 | 6.56 | 8 | .0
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August---| 86.1 | 64.7 | 75.4 | 97 | 52 | 1,095 | 3.98 | 2.34 | 5.66 | 6 | .0
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September| 80.0 | 57.8 | 68.9 | 95 | 41 | 866 | 3.49 | 1.81 | 5.14 | 6 | .0
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October--| 68.9 | 45.2 | 57.1 | 86 | 29 | 525 | 2.98 | 1.77 | 4.09 | 6 | .0
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November-| 57.6 | 35.7 | 46.6 | 80 | 18 | 239 | 3.30 | 1.98 | 4.49 | 6 | .2
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December-| 46.9 | 29.1 | 38.0 | 72 | 6 | 104 | 3.66 | 2.33 | 4.64 | 7 | 2.6
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Yearly: | | | | | | | | | | |
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Average-| 67.4 | 45.1 | 56.2 | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
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Extreme-| --- | --- | --- | 98 | -6 | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
| | | | | | | | | | |
Total---| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 6,567 | 46.97 |34.27 |53.59 | 89 | 17.5
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* A growing degree day is a unit of heat available for plant growth. It can be calculated by adding
the maximum and minimum daily temperatures, dividing the sum by 2, and subtracting the temperature below
which growth is minimal for the principal crops in the area (40 degrees F).
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