May shaping up to be coldest on record
By Sean Ellis, Idaho Statesman, May 30, 2010 [here]
POCATELLO — If you think this spring has been wetter than normal, you would be wrong. If you think it’s been colder than usual, you would be spot on.
Through Sunday, three all-time record low temperatures had been set this month. Depending on what today’s average temperature is, this could be the coldest May ever recorded in Pocatello.
“It has been very cold pretty much the entire spring,” said Greg Kaiser, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Pocatello.
The average temperature for May in Pocatello is 53 degrees.
With Sunday and Monday still to be factored in, the average temperature this May has been 48.1 degrees, a full 5 degrees below normal. The coldest May ever recorded in the Gate City was in 1953, when the month’s average temperature was 48.8 degrees. … [more]