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Climate & Environment

Climate Normals

Climate Normals
Average Annual Temperature		54.1°F	12.3°C
High	January	36.0°F	2.2°C
	July	88.8°F	31.6°C
Low	January	17.8°F	-7.9°C
	July	68.2°F	20.1°C
Annual precipitation		37.98 in.	94.95 cm
Annual snowfall		20.1 in.	50.3 cm
Annual days of snowfall in excess of 1.0 in. (2.54 cm)		6.8 days
Annual average wind speed		10.6 mph	17 kph
Annual relative humidity		68%

Source: U.S. National Climatic Data Center, Local Climatological Data, International Airport, Kansas City, Missouri.

Environment

The Kansas City region met the new, stricter federal standard for ozone air pollution, otherwise known as smog, in 2005. At that time, the metro area was the geographically largest in the nation to be in compliance with the new eight-hour standard. Kansas City continues to be in attainment status for all Clean Air Act standards.

Achieving the ozone standard was a cooperative effort involving businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, state and local governments and environmental and consumer groups. These groups are working together to develop a long-term strategy for maintaining compliance of the federal standards.

Maintaining regulatory compliance, in turn protects the health of the regional economy and makes the Kansas City metro area more competitve nationally in attracting new growth and development, providing jobs and a better quality of life for area residents.

Local clean-air planning and programs are coordinated through the Air Quality Forum of the Mid-America Regional Council, a coalition of governments serving the bi-state Kansas City region.

 

DEFINING THE GREATER KC METRO AREA

Kansas City is a Missouri/Kansas bi-state metropolitan area. All statistical references made to Kansas City Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) include the counties of Cass, Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Lafayette, Platte and Ray in Missouri, and Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami and Wyandotte counties in Kansas. The greater Kansas City area also includes the adjoining Lawrence, KS, St. Joseph, MO, and Topeka, KS MSAs, as well as the Atchison, KS, Chillicothe, MO, Ottawa, KS, and Warrensburg, MO areas.