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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
328 PM CDT FRI JUL 4 2008
..JUNE 2008 CLIMATE SUMMARY FOR HUNTSVILLE AND MUSCLE SHOALS
MONTHLY AVERAGE TEMPERATURES FOR JUNE 2008 WERE ABOVE THE
CLIMATOLOGICAL AVERAGE AT HUNTSVILLE AND MUSCLE SHOALS. WHILE
DAYTIME HIGH TEMPERATURES WERE A LITTLE WARMER ON AVERAGE AT MUSCLE
SHOALS...OVERNIGHT LOWS WERE 1.5 DEGREES WARMER AT
HUNTSVILLE...MAKING THE OVERALL MONTHLY TEMPERATURE WARMER THERE.
THE MONTH GOT OFF TO A WARM START...WITH TEMPERATURES AVERAGING
AROUND 5 TO 10 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. DAYTIME HIGHS SOARED INTO THE
UPPER 80S TO MID 90S ON MOST DAYS...WITH OVERNIGHT LOWS ONLY IN THE
UPPER 60S TO LOW 70S. A COUPLE OF WEAK FRONTS THEN MOVED THROUGH THE
AREA COOLING THE TEMPERATURES TO A FEW DEGREES BELOW NORMAL BY THE
MIDDLE OF THE THIRD WEEK. SOUTHERLY WINDS AND WARMING THEN OCCURRED
AT THE ONSET OF THE FOURTH WEEK AS TEMPERATURES CLIMBED BACK INTO
THE 90S. IN FACT...THE WARMEST DAYS FOR THE MONTH AT EACH LOCATION
OCCURRED ON THE 25TH...AS THE TEMPERATURE REACHED 97 AT THE SHOALS
AND 95 AT HUNTSVILLE. THEN...AN UNUSUALLY STRONG LATE SEASON FRONT
MOVED ACROSS THE AREA ON THE 29TH...WITH TEMPERATURES FALLING BELOW
SEASONAL LEVELS ON THE 30TH AND INTO THE FIRST FEW DAYS OF JULY.
ACROSS THE UNITED STATES...SURFACE TEMPERATURE REANALYSIS FOR THE
MONTH SHOWS THAT TEMPERATURES AVERAGED ABOVE NORMAL ACROSS MUCH OF
THE SOUTHERN TIER OF STATES...INTERIOR CALIFORNIA...AND ESPECIALLY
THE MID-ATLANTIC REGION. MEANWHILE...TEMPERATURES AVERAGED BELOW
NORMAL ACROSS MUCH OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS INTO THE GREAT LAKES...AND
IN COASTAL AREAS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
FOLLOWING ARE TEMPERATURE STATISTICS FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE FOR
HUNTSVILLE AND MUSCLE SHOALS...
- THE MONTHLY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR JUNE 2008 AT HUNTSVILLE WAS
79.1 DEGREES...WHICH IS 3.1 DEGREES ABOVE THE NORMAL JUNE
TEMPERATURE OF 76.0 DEGREES BASED ON A 1971-2000 CLIMATOLOGY. IN
101* YEARS OF NEARLY CONTINUOUS RECORD KEEPING...THIS RANKS AS THE
14TH WARMEST JUNE. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 95
DEGREES WHICH OCCURRED ON THE 8TH AND 25TH...AND THE LOW TEMPERATURE
WAS 57 DEGREES...WHICH OCCURRED ON THE 19TH. THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE
EVER RECORDED IN JUNE AT HUNTSVILLE IS 108 DEGREES...WHICH OCCURRED
ON THE 29TH IN 1931. THE COLDEST JUNE TEMPERATURE FOR HUNTSVILLE IS
42 DEGREES...WHICH OCCURRED ON THE 3RD IN 1956. THREE DAILY RECORD
HIGH MINIMUM TEMPERATURES WERE SET FOR THE MONTH...INCLUDING 73
DEGREES ON THE 4TH...72 ON THE 5TH...AND 73 ON THE 7TH. THE WARMEST
JUNE ON RECORD OCCURRED IN 1952...WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF
83.0 DEGREES...AND THE COOLEST JUNE WAS IN 1974 WITH AN AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE OF 70.5 DEGREES.
- THE MONTHLY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR JUNE 2008 AT MUSCLE SHOALS
WAS 78.6 DEGREES...WHICH WAS 2.1 DEGREES ABOVE THE NORMAL JUNE
TEMPERATURE OF 76.5 DEGREES BASED ON A 1971-2000 CLIMATOLOGY. IN
116** YEARS OF NEARLY CONTINUOUS RECORD KEEPING...THIS RANKS AS THE
20TH COOLEST JUNE AT THE SHOALS. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH
WAS 97 DEGREES WHICH OCCURRED ON THE 25TH...AND THE LOW TEMPERATURE
WAS 54 DEGREES WHICH OCCURRED ON THE 19TH. ONE DAILY RECORD HIGH
MINIMUM TEMPERATURE WAS SET FOR THE MONTH...WHICH WAS THE MORNING
LOW OF 73 DEGREES THAT OCCURRED ON TH 5TH. THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE
EVER RECORDED IN JUNE AT THE SHOALS IS 108 DEGREES...WHICH OCCURRED
ON THE 26TH IN 1914...AND THE COLDEST TEMPERATURE IS 42 DEGREES ON
THE 1ST IN 1894. THE WARMEST JUNE ON RECORD OCCURRED IN 1952...WITH
AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 83.5 DEGREES...AND THE COOLEST ON RECORD
WAS IN 1903 WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 70.5 DEGREES.
RAINFALL FOR THE MONTH WAS CONSIDERABLY BELOW NORMAL AT BOTH
LOCATIONS. THIS MAKES THE 20TH CONSECUTIVE MONTH THAT PRECIPITATION
HAS BEEN BELOW NORMAL AT HUNTSVILLE. HUNTSVILLE RECORDED ONLY 0.03
INCHES FOR THE FIRST TWELVE DAYS...THEN A WEAK FRONT BROUGHT NEARLY
ONE INCH OF RAINFALL TO THE AREA ON THE 13TH AND 14TH. MUSCLE SHOALS
STARTED OUT THE MONTH QUITE WET...AS HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS DUMPED
NEARLY ONE INCH OF RAIN AT THAT LOCATION ON THE 1ST. THEN A DRY
PERIOD SET IN...WITH NO MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION UNTIL THE 10TH. IN
SIMILARITY TO HUNTSVILLE...THE FRONTAL SYSTEM AT THE END OF THE
SECOND WEEK BROUGHT NEARLY A HALF INCH OF RAIN TO THE SHOALS AREA.
PRIMARILY SUMMERTIME PULSE CONVECTION BROUGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS TO THE REGION THROUGH THE LATTER HALF OF THE
MONTH...UNTIL A STRONGER COOL FRONT BROUGHT A MORE ORGANIZED LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA ON THE 29TH. THE SHOALS MISSED OUT ON THIS
ACTIVITY...AS THE LINE INITIALIZED JUST TO THEIR SOUTH.
HOWEVER...THE HUNTSVILLE AIRPORT RECEIVED JUST UNDER A QUARTER OF AN
INCH FROM THIS ACTIVITY...WITH OTHER OBSERVATION LOCATIONS REPORTING
HIGHER AMOUNTS IN AREAS TO THE SOUTH AND EAST.
FOLLOWING ARE PRECIPITATION STATISTICS FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE FOR
HUNTSVILLE AND MUSCLE SHOALS...
- PRECIPITATION FOR JUNE 2008 AT HUNTSVILLE TOTALED 1.61
INCHES...WHICH IS 2.61 INCHES BELOW THE NORMAL AMOUNT OF 4.22 INCHES
BASED ON A 1971-2000 CLIMATOLOGY. THIS RANKS AS THE 17TH DRIEST JUNE
ON RECORD IN 115 YEARS OF NEARLY CONTINUOUS RECORD KEEPING. THE
GREATEST CALENDAR DAY PRECIPITATION TOTAL OCCURRED ON THE
14TH...WHEN 0.61 INCHES WAS RECORDED. THE SINGLE WETTEST DAY IN JUNE
HISTORY AT HUNTSVILLE OCCURRED ON THE 14TH IN 1969 WHEN 4.46 INCHES
OF RAIN WAS RECORDED. THE WETTEST JUNE ON RECORD OCCURRED IN 1989
WHEN 14.99 INCHES WAS REPORTED...AND THE DRIEST WAS IN 1988 WHEN
ONLY 0.17 INCHES WAS RECORDED FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH.
- PRECIPITATION FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE AT MUSCLE SHOALS TOTALED 2.29
INCHES...WHICH WAS 2.61 INCHES BELOW THE NORMAL AMOUNT OF 4.90
INCHES BASED ON A 1971-2000 CLIMATOLOGY. THIS RANKS AS THE 26TH
DRIEST JUNE ON RECORD IN 116 YEARS OF NEARLY CONTINUOUS RECORD
KEEPING. THE GREATEST CALENDAR DAY TOTAL OCCURRED ON THE 1ST...WHEN
0.96 INCHES WAS RECORDED. THE SINGLE WETTEST DAY IN JUNE HISTORY AT
THE SHOALS WAS ON THE 12TH IN 1992 WITH 5.60 INCHES OF RAINFALL. THE
WETTEST JUNE ON RECORD OCCURRED IN 1989 WHEN 13.43 INCHES OF
RAINFALL WAS RECORDED...AND THE DRIEST WAS IN 1944 WITH A MEAGER
TOTAL OF ONLY 0.43 INCHES.
THE MONTHLY OUTLOOK FOR JULY FROM THE CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER...
THE ONE MONTH OUTLOOKS FOR JULY INDICATES EQUAL CHANCES FOR
BELOW...NEAR...OR ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND PRECIPITATION AT
BOTH LOCATIONS.
* TEMPERATURE DATA FOR HUNTSVILLE GO BACK TO 1907...WHILE
PRECIPITATION DATA ARE AVAILABLE SINCE 1894.
** TEMPERATURE DATA FOR MUSCLE SHOALS GO BACK TO 1893...HOWEVER
SPORADIC OUTAGES OF DATA OCCUR IN THE 1910S AND AGAIN FROM SEPTEMBER
1995 THROUGH MAY 1997.
NOTE...ALL DATA ABOVE ARE PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TO CORRECTION. ALL
TEMPERATURE DATA ARE EXPRESSED IN DEGREES FAHRENHEIT.
OFFICIAL CLIMATE DATA ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE NCDC WEBSITE AT...
HTTP://WWW.NCDC.NOAA.GOV.
ONE MONTH AND SEASONAL TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION OUTLOOKS MAY BE
OBTAINED FROM THE CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER WEBSITE AT...
HTTP://WWW.CPC.NCEP.NOAA.GOV.
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