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July was cold, but no record

Month ranked 2nd coolest, with temps 5 degrees below normal.

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By Margo Rutledge Kissell, Staff Writer Updated 10:53 PM Friday, July 31, 2009

This month will go down as the second coolest July on record in the Dayton area, according to the National Weather Service in Wilmington.

“That’s fairly significant. We haven’t had a July that’s been this cool since 1984. It’s been a quarter of a century,” meteorologist Mike Ryan said on Friday, July 31.

The record average temperature stands at 69.2 degrees back in 1947.

“We are currently sitting at 69.5, which puts us into solid second position,” Ryan said in the late morning.

The third coolest July on record came in 1984, when the average temperature was 69.9 degrees.

The average July temperature is 74.3 degrees, so this month has been about five degrees below normal.

Ryan said he expects the general trend for August temperatures to be near or slightly below normal, putting them more in the low to mid-80s.

“I do not see any extended period of hot dry weather at this point,” he said.

He attributes the cooler weather this summer to a persistent trough of low pressure over the eastern part of the United States.

Although this has been a wet month, it’s nowhere near the record July rainfall of 8.55 inches in July 1990. That year ranks as the wettest year on record, Ryan noted.

This month saw about 4.01 inches of rainfall, including 0.78 measured at Dayton International Airport early Friday morning. The average monthly precipitation is 3.74 inches.

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When will OwlGore finally share a "weekend at Bernie's" (Madoff that is)for perpetrating his massive fraud? Weird Al's global warming, umm...sorry, climate change scam makes Madoff look like a petty shoplifting!

William Rush
2:08 AM, 8/4/2009

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Yes climate change (warming) could be bad for human civilization and a lot of animal species, but cooling would be far worse. Try gardening under 5000 ft of ice. End of the world, not a chance. The earth use to be far warmer that it is now and there was plenty of life. Remember 30 million years ago there were plants growing in Antarctica. We (humans) might be screwed and there might be another mass extinction but live will go on, nature is a lot tougher then a lot of people think.

Jay In Virginia
4:59 PM, 8/3/2009

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On the one hand, I see that the planet has not warmed for the past 10 years or so - and in fact, may have cooled slightly. Although I might jump to the conclusion that global warming has stopped, or at least, paused, I then remember that as a white male, I do not have the life exprience of a latina female. As such, the lack of richness of my experience will, more often than not, allow me not to come to a better conclusion than a latina female.

So, I am probably wrong on this.

E
4:01 PM, 8/3/2009

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The people bought into the global warming fearmongering so it's funny seeing them realize they were duped as karma, ie legislation, robs them of their liberty, jobs, and standard of living.

Steve
1:09 PM, 8/3/2009

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if only the climate change issue were as simple as the opinions expressed in these comments.

z
3:16 PM, 8/1/2009

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