June is in the books.

June Daily Temps

Welcome to July and the beginning of our 75 days of summer, here in the 'Couv'. June began quite warm, was mostly mundane and a little drippy in the middle then finished like a new furnace. What a ride! The numbers tell of a warmer than average June with less than average rainfall, but honestly, it felt like it rained more than that. There were a number of localized squalls that poured down like a spring waterfall at times. The squalls just missed the gauge, I guess.

June Daily Precipitation

My rain bucket had a mere 1.69 inches for the month nearly an inch off the average for June. Temps were just a touch above normal both overnight and daytime.

July has started off just like June ended with high temps and a little more moisture than typical for hot days in Southwest Washington. Relative humidity has been running around 50% with temps in the high 80s to mid 90s. That puts the heat index up near 100 at times. Toasty warm for sure.

Wettest day officially at my station was 0.38 inches on the 19th. The warmest day was the last day at 92.6 and the first 90 plus day of the year. I measured 89.9 on the 28th. The highest heat index came on the 30th as well with 97 degrees. (NOAA calculation 92.6, 44% humidity). Coolest evening low was 44.4. Every day broke sixty degrees. We had twenty days of sunshine and nine days with rain.

My location tends to run a tad cooler than the official weather stations in the area. Several areas were reporting heat index values over 100 degrees. Personally I can do without high heat and our summers tend to have very few days over 90. Sit back and relax for Independence Day should be a mild eighty-five-ish. Soak it up.