Weather report for homesick viewers

For viewers homesick for Akron, here are some notes courtesy of a Beacon Journal story today by Bob Downing:

The Akron-Canton area has already gotten 44.8 inches of snow this winter. Normal snowfall is 26.2 inches. The 8.6 inches of of snow this week was the biggest snow of January in Akron-Canton. Through Friday there has been at least a trace of snow on 24 of the 20 days so far. The average temperature has been 16 degrees, nine below normal. In 1932 Akron recorded only a trace of snow all month.

Top 10 snowiest Januaries recorded at Akron-Canton airport:

1978...... 37.5 inches
2009.......28.6 inches
1999.......24.3 inches
1994.......23.5 inches
1904.......22 inches
1979.......21.9 incches
1914.......21.4 inches
1976.......25.1 inches
1919.......21 inches
1985,,,,,,,,20.9 inches