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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
900 AM EDT FRI JUL 31 2009
...UNUSUALLY COOL JULY AND FIRST TWO MONTHS OF SUMMER FOR CENTRAL
PARK...
...JUNE AND JULY 2009 ARE THE SECOND WETTEST JUNE AND JULY PERIOD ON
RECORD AT CENTRALPARK...
FOR SOME PERSPECTIVE...HERE ARE THE TOP TEN COOLEST JULYS AND FIRST
TWO MONTHS OF SUMMER (JUNE/JULY) ON RECORD SINCE 1869 FOR CENTRAL
PARK IN NEW YORK CITY:
COOLEST JULY COOLEST JUNE/JULY
AVG. TEMP. YEAR AVG. TEMP. YEAR
70.7 1888 69.4 1881
71.9 1884 69.8 1903
72.1 1914 70.0 2009*
72.3 2000/1871 70.3 1902
72.4 1891 70.6 1916
72.6 1895/2009* 70.7 1927
72.8 1902/1869 71.0 1915/1924/1926
72.9 1956 71.2 1888/1918
73.1 1890 71.5 1893/1920
73.2 2001 71.7 1928/1958
73.4 1996 71.8 2000
*THROUGH JULY 30TH
DUE TO THE UNUSUALLY COOL CONDITIONS THUS FAR IN JULY...HERE ARE
SOME INTERESTING FACTS TO NOTE...
WITH AN AVERAGE DAILY TEMPERATURE OF 72.6...CURRENTLY RUNNING 3.9
DEGREES BELOW NORMAL...SO FAR THIS IS THE SIXTH COOLEST JULY ON
RECORD AT CENTRALPARK. THIS VALUE IS EXPECTED TO RISE AS
TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO AVERAGE NEAR TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL
THROUGH THE END OF THE MONTH.
DAILY AVERAGE TEMPERATURES HAVE BEEN AT OR BELOW NORMAL EVERY DAY
BUT TWO THIS MONTH (THE 28TH AND 30TH)...FOR 46 OF 48 DAYS DATING
BACK TO JUNE 13TH...AND FOR 54 OF THE 60 DAYS SINCE JUNE 1ST.
CENTRALPARK HAS ONLY REACHED ABOVE 85 DEGREES ONCE THIS SUMMER...ON
THE 17TH OF JULY...AND HAS NOT YET REACHED 90 DEGREES THIS SUMMER.
IF THIS CONTINUES THROUGH THE END OF THE MONTH...IT WILL ONLY BE THE
SECOND TIME SINCE 1869 THAT 90 DEGREES WAS NOT REACHED IN JUNE OR
JULY. THE ONLY OTHER TIME THIS OCCURRED WAS 1996.
FOR THE MONTHS OF JUNE AND JULY...THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE SO FAR IN
2009 IS 70.0 DEGREES...MAKING THIS THE THIRD COOLEST JUNE AND JULY
ON RECORD AT CENTRALPARK. WHILE THIS VALUE WILL INCREASE A LITTLE
BIT...IT VERY LIKELY WILL END UP IN THE TOP TEN. OF NOTE IS THAT 7
OF THE 10 COOLEST JUNE AND JULY/S ON RECORD AT CENTRALPARK WENT ON
TO BEING ONE OF THE 10 COOLEST SUMMERS ON RECORD.
IN ADDITION...THE AVERAGE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE IN JUNE/JULY IS 77.4
DEGREES SO FAR...MAKING IT THE THIRD COOLEST AVERAGE MAXIMUM
TEMPERATURE FOR THE FIRST TWO MONTHS OF THE SUMMER ON RECORD (LOWEST
76.1 IN 1903).
AS FAR AS RAINFALL...HERE ARE THE TEN WETTEST JUNE/JULYS ON RECORD
SINCE 1869 AT CENTRALPARK:
WETTEST JUNE/JULY
AMOUNT YEAR
19.35 1975
16.46 2009*
15.93 1928
14.71 2006
14.37 1922
14.28 1889
14.02 2003
13.92 1989
13.84 1972
13.70 1903
* THROUGH JULY 29
WITH 16.46 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE JUNE 1ST...THE JUNE/JULY OF 2009 IS
ALREADY THE SECOND WETTEST ON RECORD INCLUDING THE SECOND WETTEST
JUNE ON RECORD (10.06 INCHES - WETTEST WAS 2003 - 10.27 INCHES) AND
6.40 INCHES SO FAR THIS MONTH. WHILE THE RAINFALL THIS MONTH IS
ABOVE NORMAL BY 2.08 INCHES SO FAR...IT IS NOT IN THE TOP TEN. 1.43
INCHES OF RAIN ARE NEEDED TO TIE JULY 1872 AS THE TENTH WETTEST JULY
ON RECORD (WETTEST JULY - 11.89 INCHES IN 1889). ALSO OF NOTE...IS
THAT ONLY 5.97 INCHES OF RAIN IS NEEDED BETWEEN NOW AND AUGUST 31ST
TO MAKE THIS THE WETTEST SUMMER ON RECORD (WETTEST 1975 - 22.40
INCHES).
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