wunderground.com-2/25/13, Christopher C. Burt
Blizzard conditions raged in and around Amarillo, Texas this morning (February 25) depositing 19.0” of snow with drifts of 4-6’. Photo by Michael Schumacher, The Amarillo Globe News.
Wichita is forecast to pick up 8-10” additional accumulation through Monday night. Should this verify, it will make for February being the single snowiest month in Wichita records (which go back to 1888). Wichita’s snowiest month on record was 20.5” that fell during February 1913. So far this month the 14.2” from last week’s storm has comprised their monthly total, so an additional 6.4” needs to fall today and Tuesday to break the monthly record. Wichita’s greatest single snowstorm on record brought 15.0” on January 17-18, 1962. Its 24-hour record (which still stands) is 13.5” on March 15-16, 1970. During last week’s storm the peak snowfall amount reported in Kansas was 22” at Russell. This was well short of the Kansas state record for a single snowstorm of 37.0” set at Olathe on March 23-24, 1912. The state 24-hour snowfall record is 30.0” at Pratt on March 28, 2009.
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