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13 of past 14 months have been above normal temps
(Clinton) -- The warmer than usual weather continued in the Clinton area in June
The latest trend of above normal temperatures continued in June. Clinton area weather observer Jim Blaess says the overall temperature for June was 73 which is nearly two degrees above normal for the month.
Blaess says that over the past 14 months-from May of 2011 through this June-that only September 2011 was below normal for overall temperature. In that period, Blaess says the area had the 5th warmest winter and warmest spring in records back to 1879.
For the June, Blaess recorded eight days with temperatures of 90 or above and the average is four days. The highest reading during the month was 96 on the 28th and the lowest was 45 on the first.
It was also the 9th driest June on record to 1879 with about 1.5 inches of precipitation. That’s nearly 2.9 inches below average for the month.
The year-to-date precipitation is now about 13.3 inches is about three inches below normal
For July the average precipitation is about 3.7 inches with six days of 90 or above temperatures. Blaess says the average high and low remain about the same through-out the month at 85 and 63.
Written 7/2/2012 by Dave Vickers - KROS News
