Wednesday, June 27, 2007
HAIL TO THE SUMMER OF 2004
Drew’s blog entry prompted me to do some meteorological digging in the dregs of archived data and thankfully I didn’t have to go back that far to find a year that was “relatively” cool. Back in school, as part of the course work for Climatology, we had to collect and analyze over one hundred years worth of data that we collected from microfiche! Just the thought is giving me a headache and blurring my vision. Onwards, we march towards tales of cool.
OK, are you sitting down? The summer of 2004 was void of triple digit heat!
In fact, the highest temp recorded that summer was 97 F in Fort Smith and 92 F in Fayetteville. Interestingly, both June and July were very wet. Getting ideas or hopes? Rainfall totaled some15” for the two month period!
So, let’s move it to present times. The warmest day thus far has been June 19th of the present month when Fort Smith reached 93 F and Fayetteville topped out at 89 F.
Could the rest of the summer be “cool”? Let’s hope so.
OK, are you sitting down? The summer of 2004 was void of triple digit heat!
In fact, the highest temp recorded that summer was 97 F in Fort Smith and 92 F in Fayetteville. Interestingly, both June and July were very wet. Getting ideas or hopes? Rainfall totaled some15” for the two month period!
So, let’s move it to present times. The warmest day thus far has been June 19th of the present month when Fort Smith reached 93 F and Fayetteville topped out at 89 F.
Could the rest of the summer be “cool”? Let’s hope so.
Posted by Ted Zarras at 11:45 AM
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