Sheldon, Iowa — The month of December 2024 was warmer than normal in Sheldon, with close to average precip, but more of it fell as rain than is normal, and we received less snow.
According to the weather facts collected by KIWA Radio, the highest high was 59 degrees, recorded on December 8th. The lowest high temperature was 9 degrees, recorded on both December 11th and 12th.
The lowest low in the month was -8 on December 11th. We recorded below-zero low temperatures only on the 11th. The highest low was 32 degrees on December 26th.
The average high for the month was 34. The normal is 30. The average low was 16. The normal is 11. The average temperature as-a-whole for the month was 25 degrees, and normally it’s 20.5.
We received 0.91 of an inch of precipitation for December. A normal December sees 0.93, so we were below normal for the month by just two-hundredths of an inch. In all of 2024, we received 40.15 inches. A normal year sees 27.63 inches, so we ended 2024 at 12.52 inches above normal. The day with the most precip in December was the 30th, when we received 0.65 inches of rain.
The snow received in December only added up to 2 inches. Normal snowfall for December is 7.7 inches, so we ended the month 5.7 inches below normal. Since September first, we’ve received 2.2 inches. Normal would be 12.2 inches, so we’re ten inches below normal for season-to-date snowfall. The day with the most snow was December 1st. Even on that day, we only got an inch of snow.
