weather records
Posted by
CypressTX on 8/3/2009, 1:46 pm
full info at the link:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hgx/climate/reviews/080109.txt
a snippet:
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
1018 AM CDT SAT AUG 1 2009
...JULY 2009 - MORE HEAT...MORE TEMPERATURE RECORDS...
...SUMMER OF 2009 IS NOW THE WARMEST IN CITY OF
HOUSTON WEATHER HISTORY...
...CITY OF HOUSTON SUFFERS DRIEST MAY THROUGH JULY...
A PERSISTENT UPPER LEVEL RIDGE CONTINUED TO EXERT CONSIDERABLE
INFLUENCE OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS DURING THE MONTH OF JULY. THE RIDGE
SHIFTED SLIGHTLY WEST DURING THE MIDDLE PART OF THE MONTH AND THIS
ALLOWED A WEAK UPPER LEVEL TROUGH TO RETROGRADE INTO EAST TEXAS.
SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPERATURES AND SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED IN THE WAKE OF THE UPPER TROUGH. RAINFALL
WAS STILL BELOW NORMAL FOR MOST LOCATIONS. BUT COMPARED TO THE
PALTRY AMOUNTS THAT FELL IN MAY AND JUNE...RAINFALL IN JULY WAS
DOWNRIGHT TROPICAL.
THE MONTHLY AVERAGE TEMPERATURES FOR JULY WERE BETWEEN 2.5 AND 4.5
DEGREES WARMER THAN THE 30 YEAR CLIMATOLOGICAL NORMALS. RECORD HIGH
TEMPERATURES PLAGUED THE REGION DURING THE FIRST WEEK OF JULY BUT AS
THE RIDGE SHIFTED WEST...HIGH TEMPERATURES BEGAN TO MODERATE BELOW
RECORD LEVELS. INCREASING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND SLIGHTLY STRONGER
WIND SPEEDS DID NOT ALLOW FOR MUCH COOLING OVERNIGHT. IT WAS THE
OPPRESSIVE OVERNIGHT LOW TEMPERATURES...BARELY FALLING BELOW 80
DEGREES...THAT FUELED THE RECORD MONTHLY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE. JULY
2009 WAS THE WARMEST JULY IN RECORDED HISTORY FOR COLLEGE STATION
AND HOUSTON HOBBY AIRPORT. THE CITY OF HOUSTON HAD IT`S SECOND
WARMEST JULY ON RECORD...FALLING JUST SHORT OF JULY 1980 DUE TO RAIN
COOLED TEMPERATURES ON THE LAST DAY OF THE MONTH. GALVESTON TIED
IT`S FOURTH WARMEST JULY ON RECORD.
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