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NICK DILLER July 2019 weather summary: Hot and very dry

In 18 of the 31 days dewpoints were 70 or higher and on one occasion, the DP hit 80, an unheard of reading.

Great Barrington —Two of the three H’S would pretty much describe it. Hot with 10 days of 90 degrees or hotter. Add to that 10 days of upper 80’s.  As a matter of fact, on only three days did temperatures fail to make 80.

The humidity at times was brutal. In 18 of the 31 days dewpoints were 70 or higher and on one occasion, the DP hit 80, an unheard of reading, but the second in as many years.

Now on to precipitation, or lack of it. The total of 2.49 inches was deceiving.  2.13 inches came in a 24 hour period. The rest of the month was bone dry in Great Barrington and much of the rest of South Berkshire.

If we discount the 2 plus inches of rain in that 24-hour period, we had less than a half inch which would have been the driest by far. The reason! Rain and thunderstorms went around us. A good case in point: July 31. All the storms went by to our south and ended up slamming the central and eastern part of the region. The National Weather Service had no plausible answer except “those things happen.”

So, it looks like a few days of comfortable weather, then back to heat and humidity next week.

Enjoy it while you can.

DATE        HI TEMP    LO TEMP          SKY                                   RAIN

1-Jul            83            55                   FAIR

2-Jul       81           55           CHANGING

3-Jul       89           60           FAIR

4-Jul       92           59           FAIR

5-Jul       90           61           FAIR

6-Jul       91           71           CHANGING         0.10

7-Jul       81           51           CHANGING         0.01

8-Jul       83           52           FAIR

9-Jul       85           59           FAIR

10-Jul    88           54           FAIR

11-Jul    86           64           CHANGING         0.04

12-Jul    81           64           CHANGING

13-Jul    86           62           FAIR

14-Jul    85           63           FAIR

15-Jul    82           57           FAIR

16-Jul    90           54           FAIR

17-Jul    90           71           CHANGING         0.14

18-Jul    75           69           CHANGING

19-Jul    93           68           CHANGING

20-Jul    94           73           CHANGING         0.06

21-Jul    92           69           FAIR

22-Jul    75           63           CHANGING         1.22

23-Jul    75           62           CHANGING         0.91

24-Jul    80           59           FAIR

25-Jul    82           54           FAIR

26-Jul    87           55           FAIR

27-Jul    86           57           FAIR

28-Jul    89           62           CHANGING         0.01

29-Jul    90           66           FAIR

30-Jul    92           65           FAIR

31-Jul    82           67           CHANGING  

Month  86           61          MEAN: 73.5         2.49

 

AVERAGE since 1965:  83/59 Mean 71   Rain  4.6″

AVERAGE since 2000: 83/60 Mean 71.5 Rain 4.93

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