News: A March to remember across Northeast Ohio

by Frank Macek, WKYC Web Weather Producer

CLEVELAND -- March goes out like a lamb and sets some new records along the way.

The month of March wound up being a very wet and snowy one across Northeast Ohio.

Our average temperature for the month was 40.6 degrees with an average low of 26.4 degrees. That put us about 4 degrees cooler than normal.

Precipitation wise, the Cleveland area wound up with 5.51" of precipitation - about twice as much as normal. This put us at the 6th wettest March on record. (The all time record is 8.31" inches set in 1913.)

Our snowfall tallied at 30.4" or about 19.7" above normal. This was enough to give Cleveland a new record for snowiest March ever.

Elsewhere around the area, several other notable events occured during March..

AKRON CANTON...
*4th wettest March on record with 5.80" (The record is 10.46" set in 1913.)
*2nd snowiest March on record with 20.4" (The record is 20.9" in 1960.)

MANSFIELD...
*8th coldest March on record at 33.6 degrees. (The record is 23.9 degrees in 1960.)
*4th wettest March on record with 5.70" (The record is 7.04" in 1964.)
*Snowiest March on record with 21.4"

TOLEDO...
*2nd snowiest March on record with 17.4" (The record is 17.7" in 1993.)

YOUNGSTOWN...
*Wettest March on record with 6.38"
*4th snowiest on record with 21.7 inches. (The record is 30.9" in 1993)

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