Topic: How was your July?

[AWL]

.DISCUSSION...
AFTER RECORD TEMPERATURES IN JULY FOR BOTH OKLAHOMA CITY AND
WICHITA FALLS...THE BEGINNING OF AUGUST WILL REMAIN JUST AS HOT
IF NOT A LITTLE HOTTER. JULY 2011 STANDS ALONE AS THE "WARMEST" OF
ANY MONTH SINCE TEMPERATURE RECORDS BEGAN AT BOTH STATIONS.....

THE HEAT ADVISORY WAS REPLACED WITH AN EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING AS
TEMPERATURES DURING THE EARLY TO MID WEEK WILL BE MAINLY IN THE
105 TO 110 RANGE AND HIGHER.

Southern Oklahoma
My stats(6yrs of data):
Every day in July >100°  12 days >105°
High temp:     108.6°
Average high: 105.0° (6yr avg) 96.6°
Mean:             90.6° (6yr avg) 84.0°
Average low:    76.2° (6yr avg) 72.5°
Rain                0.45" (6yr avg) 2.37"
I am now at 35 days in a row >100° with a total of 40.

[Downlinerz2]

     I will just say it's been too hot like most places.  I am looking forward to Fall!

[chief-david]

Here are the stats for Minneapolis

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=mpx&storyid=71406&source=0

Three highest averages for heat-and a record high dew point of 83F

[BigOkie]

This is what my weather station recorded:

http://www.tulsatrafficcirclewx.com/201107.html

[ArmySlowRdr]

Here in the Ft Hood area every day in July reached 100+--many days well over 100.  There was only ONE day where the minimum temp was below 75.

In June we had only 5 days that did not make it to 100.

[Downlinerz2]

   Here is my history from WU.

[GregJ]

Thanks to all you folks hogging all the heat.... We had the coldest July on record.  On the water side of my place our average high temp was 62 degrees.  That is a full 3 degrees cooler than normal.  The heat dome that covered the center of the country blocked all the low pressure systems sitting off our coast from moving inland.  So.... we were in a constant influence of cold, marine onshore flow.  Here is just one of the many blogs about our cold weather: http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2011/07/cold-truth.html

Greg

[Bunty]

Thanks to all you folks hogging all the heat.... We had the coldest July on record.  On the water side of my place our average high temp was 62 degrees.  That is a full 3 degrees cooler than normal.  The heat dome that covered the center of the country blocked all the low pressure systems sitting off our coast from moving inland.  So.... we were in a constant influence of cold, marine onshore flow.  Here is just one of the many blogs about our cold weather: http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2011/07/cold-truth.html

Greg

You'll love your low utility bills, assuming you didn't have to turn on the heating much.  In a small neighboring town from mine, Pawnee, one mom and pop restaurant is closing, because customers can't afford to go out to eat much any more, because their utility bills are so high from running air conditioning.

Here, every day in July had at least 100 degrees, except for one.  The highest was 110.  .7 of rain fell.   Compare that to 2010 when July had 3.4" and only one day had as much as a 100 degrees.

Counting today, there has been 39 days in 2011 with temp at least 100.  At this time in 2010 there had only been 2 days.

[Chris H.]

Hot and dry in the beginning, hot and wet in the middle, and then semi-hot and wet in the end.

[TNETWeather]

Fairly dry July for the Phoenix area.  Made for a fairly comfortable July (Hot with lower dewpts) which is normally more sticky and wet.

July 2011
Average temperature     94.0°F
Average humidity        36%
Average dewpoint        60.8°F
Average barometer       29.712 in.
Average windspeed       2.0 mph
Average gustspeed       3.9 mph
Average direction       217° ( SW)
Rainfall for month      0.551 in.
Rainfall for year       2.472 in.
Maximum rain per min    0.020 in on day 24 at time 23:03
Maximum temperature     119.1°F on day 02 at time 14:51
Minimum temperature     66.6°F on day 15 at time 05:55
Maximum humidity        86% on day 25 at time 03:25
Minimum humidity        12% on day 14 at time 19:22
Maximum dewpoint        77.2°F on day 04 at time 16:41
Minimum dewpoint        36.0°F on day 14 at time 19:22
Maximum pressure        29.97 in. on day 24 at time 22:42
Minimum pressure        29.51 in. on day 02 at time 19:43
Maximum windspeed       36.8 mph from 180°( S ) on day 05 at time 19:53
Maximum gust speed      52.9 mph from 158°(SSE) on day 05 at time 19:50
Maximum heat index      123.3°F on day 02 at time 14:48
Avg daily max temp      107.1°F
Avg daily min temp      79.5°F
Total windrun           1480.7 miles

Funny, I compared last year with this year and it seemed fairly similar.  We didn't have much of a monsoon that year either.  Need to go back to July 2008 to see a more typical July for Phoenix.. We have been off for a number of years though this year compared with the rest of the country seems to be more pronounced.

[TNETWeather]

Interesting chart from the US Drought Monitor

Data is (at this time) updated to July 26th.

[DJMWX86]

HOT & DRY: http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KOHMOREL1&graphspan=month&month=7&day=1&year=2011

But I'll take that over the very wet and record breaking start to the spring or lack there of we hade here and the white stuff and cold a few months from now. 

[chief-david]

From the MPLS star trib'


Rainfall for July, 5.23 inches, was 29 percent above normal, and rain fell on 13 days. For those whose work wasn't affected, it fell on four out of five weekends.

The high temp on July 1 reached 99, and nine more days in the 90s followed. No daily high temperature records were set, but several others were, indicating how oppressive the conditions were:

•The Twin Cities reached a record 82-degree dew point July 19.

•The same day brought a record heat index of 119.

•The temperature never dropped below 80 on July 20, a record "high low." The monthly average low was 69.7 degrees, third-highest on record behind only the Dust Bowl years of 1936 and 1935.

•July pushed the Twin Cities tally of dew points of 75 degrees or higher to 96 hours for the summer, smashing the old record of 78 hours for the entire summer, set in 2001. By 3 p.m. Monday, we'd climbed to 98 hours.

[kanewolf]

This is what my weather station recorded:

http://www.tulsatrafficcirclewx.com/201107.html

That is a nice looking chart.  What software created it?

[Cienega32]

My July wasn't all that bad temp-wise:

[DanS]

Pretty much the usual around here with a little more rain than normal for the time of year.

[Cienega32]

Jeez, the 26th looks like it was beautiful day...

[DanS]

Yeah but it's a moist heat. Can't remember the last time I got zapped when combing my hair.

[SLOweather]

Cooler than normal... Second summer in a row like that...

From today's local paper...

Central Coast having a chillier summer for second year in a row

For the second straight summer, San Luis Obispo County is experiencing cooler-than-normal weather.

Local weather expert John Lindsey said Monday that daily high temperatures for July across San Luis Obispo County were below historical averages, mirroring what took place in 2010.

In San Luis Obispo, the high last month averaged 75.1 degrees. The historical average for the month in the city is 78.3 degrees.

In Paso Robles, the high last month averaged 89.7 degrees — well below the historical average of 93.8, said Lindsey, a communications specialist at PG&E and longtime Central Coast weather forecaster.

More at the link above...

[chief-david]

The Exceptionally Muggy Summer of 2011

The National Weather Service is forecasting a break in the high dew point temperatures over the next few days after the muggy day today. So far this summer as of 3pm August 1, there have been 274 hours of dew point temperatures of 70 degrees or higher recorded at the Twin Cities International Airport. The record is 512 hours in 2002. What really stands out are the counts of extremely muggy dew point temperatures. So far this summer as of 3pm August 1, there have been 98 hours of dew point temperatures of 75 degrees or higher. This breaks the old record of 78 hours that was set back on 2001.

Twin Cities International Airport
Greatest Number of hours with dew point
temperature of 70 degrees F
(1945-2011)

Rank  Year   Hours
----------------------
1.    2002   512
2.    1983   392
3.    1995   387
4.    2001   357
5.    1955   345

1981-2010 average = 182

so far in 2011 274
(through 3pm August 1)


Twin Cities International Airport
Greatest Number of hours with dew point
temperature of 75 degrees F
(1945-2011)

Rank  Year   Hours
--------------------
1.    2011   98 (as of 3pm August 1)
2.    2001   78
3.    1999   64
4.    1987   60
5.    1995   56

1981-2010 average = 18

[Cienega32]

I can almost hear NeonDesert chuckling in the distance...

[PaulMy]

July, very hot here:
2011 average Maximum 30.1 vs Environment Canada historical 26.3 = +3.8c
2011 average Minimum 17.2 vs 13.7 = +3.5c
2011 average Average 23.7 vs 20.5 = +3.2c
Total rain = 37.6mm = very low
Sunshine = every day http://www.komokaweather.com/weather/sunrecorder/Days30_10013.png
Paul

[chief-david]

Moorhead has set a new Minnesota record for mugginess.

The State Climatology Office said the 88-degree dew-point temperature at Moorhead on July 19 is a state record. Minnesota's previous dew-point record was 86 degrees, set at Pipestone and St. James on July 23, 2005.

Moorhead's 88-degree dew point was recorded from 7 to 9 p.m. The climatology office said that at the time, wind speeds were decreasing and air temperature rising, which suggests there were local influences helping to drive the dew point to "this extreme level."

[Bunty]

[BigOkie]

Yep, that about sums it up.  You guys in the rest of the state have been hit harder, but the NE part of Oklahoma has always historically had more rain because of our climate.  Believe it or not there are several different eco-regions in this state.  NE Oklahoma is more like the Ozarks; central and south a little more flat (even though the elevation is a little higher on average there).

But we could all use the rain.