The warmest day was a 100.1º mark on the 26th which was part of a string of consecutive days above 90º and keep in mind that I average about a dozen 90 plus days a year! To get eight in a row is very unusual. The coldest temp was a comfortable 55.6º the morning the 18th. The coolest daytime high arrived on the 2nd when the mercury barely topped 70 with a 70.3º reading. The warmest overnight low was a warm 70.2º on the 30th. July delivered 18 sunny days with one day over the century mark and 11 days over 90º. The average daily high last month was a whopping 4º over normal and the overnight lows were about 2º over. The real interesting part of this was the humidity which was a bit higher than normal for warm weather. Typically 90º days are met with warm dry interior air that keeps things bone dry but this 8 day streak had humidity levels in the 30-40% range which is the sticky south, but it did lead to heat indexes a few degrees above the actual temps.
As for rainfall July did not disappoint as there was just three days with rain and not much at all totaling a mere 0.26 inch for the month well under the July average of 1.02 inch.
August begins warm and a bit cloudy so we shall see if August plays the same tune.
