Scott's July Summary
By Scott Cimini on August 3, 2012, 8:08am
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July turned out to be a pretty hot month as temperatures were above average for yet another month this year. The normal high is 82° and my average in North Haven was 86.2°. That’s a good 4° above normal. The normal low temp is 66° and that’s exactly what my average was from my weather station.
The hottest day of the month was on 7/18/12 (my birthday) when I topped out at 98°. That was one of the days where severe storms were forecasted across the state. I chased a storm that day but had car trouble and had to call it quits early unfortunately. I remember the temperature going from 98° to 76° in about 30 minutes in one of those thunderstorms in Plainville. It didn’t cool down much more that day as I recorded my highest daily low temperature of the month also on the 18th at 75°.
The normal rainfall for July is 3.48 inches and I recorded slightly above average rain for the month. I had 3.79 inches of rain in July and received the most daily rain on July 28th with 1.16”.
The busiest day of the month was on Tuesday, July 24th when a strong thunderstorm knocked out power to 400 people in North Haven. I recorded only .15 inches of rain at my station but the other side of town had much more. There were trees down all over town and several streets were closed. I also recorded a wind gust of 18.3 mph during that storm.
Below is a summary of the data from my weather station. Those are just numbers but the numbers sure do tell a story!
Temperature (°F):
Average Low 66.2
Average High 86.2
Minimum 59.9 on 7/20/2012
Maximum 97.9 on 7/18/2012
Highest Minimum 75.7 on 7/18/2012
Lowest Maximum 68.4 on 7/20/2012
Rainfall (in):
Total for Month 3.79
Wettest day 1.16 on 7/28/2012
High rain rate 2.60 day 7/28/2012
Wind (mph):
Highest Gust 18.3 on 7/24/2012
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