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Average temperatures in January seventh warmest ever in Lawrence
Forecaster says El Niño current makes February weather difficult to predict
By Jay Williams
Kansan staff writer
A Pacific Ocean current caused a warmer January in Lawrence.
Andy Kula, a forecaster with the KU Weather Service, said the mild weather last month was caused by the El Niño current in the Pacific. El Niño is a large current of warm water that can change weather patterns in North and South America.
In Lawrence, that means a weakened jet stream from the west. The weakened jet stream causes fewer waves in the water and allows warmer air to settle in the area.
Despite the warmer temperatures,
no record hights were recorded during
The average temperature was 37.5 degrees, the seventh highest average ever recorded for the month, Kula said.
KU Weather Service records for January showed that four of the seven warmest months in Lawrence's history have occurred since 1986. The warmest January was in 1933, when the average was 41.6 degrees. The coldest average was 14.4 degrees in 1940.
"We have come within two or three degrees of a record the last couple of days."
The average high for January 1992 was 44.8 degrees, about eight degrees higher than normal.
"We have come within two or three degrees of a record the last couple of days," said Mark Mitchell, a forecaster with the KU Weather Service.
January heat waves
The warm weather meant that snow did not play a role in January.
Last month was the seventh-warmest January on record. A comparison of average temperatures:
Kula said the precipitation level was almost normal — 1 inch, a tenth above the usual figure — but all of it was rain. "The big goal was no snow," he said.
"The big deal was no snow," he said.
Source: KU Weather Service
Lawrence averages 4.9 inches of snow for January.
Jeff Meesey, Daily Kansam
This week's forecast could cause people to forget the mid month. Kula said there was a chance of rain today and it will create conditions for the remainder of the week.
Robert Wavrin, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Topeka, said he predicted normal temperatures for February. Averages are highs in the low-to-mid 40s,lows in the low 20s and 1 inch of precipitation.
But Kula said El Niño's pattern
indicating February weather
Phil the groundhog predicts more winter, but competitors differ on their forecasts
"it's hard to say," he said. "The pat- tern tries to keep things the same."
The Associated Press
PUNXSUAWNEY, Pa. — More winter. That was the not-so-spontaneous forecast attributed to Phil, the groundhog awakened yesterday to further a 105-year tradition in homespun American meteorology.
A shivering crowd of about 3,000, including comic actor Bill Murray, who was doing research for an upcoming part, cheered as the sleepy rodent was held aloft to peer through blinding camera flashes for its shadow.
Prognosticating groundhogs-comelately in Wisconsin, Georgia and West Virginia also got into the act, with differing outcomes.
Superstition imported from Europe says when a groundhog sees its shadow on Feb. 2, expect six more weeks of winter. No shadow means spring in two weeks.
Since Punxsutawney inaugurated this forecasting method in 1897, a
groundhog has predicted an early thaw 10 times, the last in 1990
"He's right about 90 percent of the time," said Jimmy Means, president of the Puxunxuawong Groundhog Club's Inner Circle. "It's just instinct."
Well, almost. The result is actually decided in advance by the Inner Circle's 14 members, who don tuxedos and top hats for the event.
The annual ritual began at 7:20 a.m., when Means rapped three times on Phil's hutch and handler Bud Dunkle gently pulled the rodent into the 15-degree weather.
Phil was passed to Means for a pretend conversation in "groundhogese" before a proclamation was read declaring a long winter. With that, the crowd's cheers turned to boos.
Murray was there as part of plans to star in a film titled, "Grounding Day." He will play a newspaper reporter cov-
The spectators began gathering around 5:30 a.m., two hours before sunup. Some stayed warm with coffee and doughnuts and blankets, others with pretzels and beer.
Glenn Warners, 34, drove all the way from Grand Rapids, Mich., to seeit.
"Some locals told us not to expect too much, but it's great," he said.
too much, but it's great," he said. Chad Neidigh, 19, and Shannon Barlow, 18, crossed the state from Lock Haven University to this town 62 miles northeast of Pittsburgh on the advice of Barlow's mother.
In Sun Prairie, Wis., where it was 42 degrees outside, Jimmy the Groundhog saw a shadow in a local custom that includes a Groundhog Day breakfast and a Groundhog Ball.
"She told us that Groundhog Day should be a family day," Barlow said. "She has a warped sense of humor."
Gen. Beauregard Lee, a groundhog in Lilburn, Ga., waddled on a 28-degree morning, reportedly saw no shadow and presaged an early spring.
"Dogwoods and daffodils to rise again — that is the official, lowdown word, y'all, from the Yellow River Game Ranch," said Ruth Letosky, a representative for the 11-year-old event there.
In West Virginia, Concord Charlie, a 15-year-old groundhog at Concord College in Athens, saw a shadow, college President Jerry Beasley said. But French Creek Freddie in Upshur County, W.Va., only peeked at the snow-covered ground before vanishing again into its hole, game farm warden Bill VanScoy said.
"I guess groundhogs are smarter than humans, because he knows when to stay in when it's cold," VanScoy said.
ON THE RECORD
Stereo equipment, valued at $1,145, was taken between Dec. 24 and Jan. 13 from a room at the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, 2000 Stewart Ave., Lawrence police reported.
An identified person took 10 cartons of cigarettes, valued at $154.70, at 7:56 p.m. Thursday from Dillons, 1015 W. 23rd St. When an assistant manager tried to record the person's license plate number, the person attempted to run over the assistant manager. Officers stopped the person at 8:07 p.m. and found that the license plates had been stolen from a Topeka resident, Lawrence police reported.
ON CAMPUS
The Homeless Awareness: Week Committee is sponsoring a candlelight vigil at 7:30 tonight in front of Wescoe Hall.
■ The University Placement Center is sponsoring a workshops and internships fair. The "Beginning the Job Search" workshop will be at 3:30 p.m. today at 110 Burge Union. "Preparing for the Interview" will be at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at 110 Burge Union. "Successful Interviewing" will be at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at 110 Burge Union. The Summer Employment Fair will be from 10a. m. to 2p. m. Wednesday at the Kansas Union Ballroom. "Resumes and Letters" will be at 3:30 p.m. Thursday at 110 Burge Union.
The English Alternative Theatre
is celebrating Black History Month with a staged reading of Athol Fugard's *My Children! My Africa!* at 8 tonight at 100 Smith Hall. Admission is free.
The KU coalition of the Lawrence Alliance will meet at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow at 64 Twente Hall.
The Dr. Seuss Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Oread Room in the Kansas Union.
The office of study abroad will sponsor an informational session about studying in French-speaking countries at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the French Department Library. An informational session about studying in Spanish-speaking countries is at 4 p.m. Wednesday at 4039 Wescue Hall.
ENVIRONS will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Parlors A and B in the Kansas Union.
Support Group for Individuals with Eating Problems will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the conference room in Watkins Memorial Health Center.
The Women's Concerns Committee of Gay and Lesbian Services of Karas will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Maisy Hills Room in the Burge Union.
GLSOK will meet at 7:30 p.m. The Turbine in the Daisy Hill Room in the Tower
- Women's Student Union will meet at 5 p.m. Friday at the Oread Room in the Kansas Union.
INTERNSHIP/SUMMER EMPLOYMENT FAIR
AdiaMartin-Smith Personnel ARA/Denali Park Hotels Baxter Hospital Supply Business Men's Assurance Co. Camp Birchwood Camp Soaring Hawk Camp Winadu Camps Lincoln & Lake Hubert CDM Federal Programs Corp. Cheley Colorado Camps cottonwool, Inc. Creative Consumer Concepts Deluxe Check Printers Dillard's Dept. Stores Douglas County AIDS Project Douglas County Historical Society E & E Specialities Federal Reserve Bank Girl Scouts Greenpeace Herff Jones, Inc. IDS Financial Services Jewish Comm. Center of KC Johnson Co. Park & Recreation Kelly Services KLTH-FM/KMZ-AM
KMBC TV Channel 9
KS City Parks & Recreation
KS Dept. of Soc. & Rehab. Sen
KSMO TV 62
Lawrence Convention Bureau
Lawrence Parks & Recreation
Marion Merrel Dow
Menorah Medical Dow
Mt. Oread Book Shop
Muscular Dystrophy Assn.
People to People International
Pizza Hut
KMBC TV Channel 9
PRC Environmental Mgmt.
R & D Publications
Ritz-Carlton Hotel
Rock Springs 4-H Center
Salvation Army, Mo-Kan Camp
Sears, Roebuck & Co.
Security Benefit Group
Southwestern Company
Student Financial Aid
Study Abroad Office
Sunflower Cable, UPS
US General Accounting Office
Vector Marketing Corp.
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