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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
226 AM CDT MON AUG 27 2007

TNZ005>011-022>034-056>066-075-077>080-093>095-271700-
BEDFORD-BENTON-CANNON-CHEATHAM-CLAY-COFFEE-CUMBERLAND-DAVIDSON-
DEKALB-DICKSON-FENTRESS-GILES-GRUNDY-HICKMAN-HOUSTON-HUMPHREYS-
JACKSON-LAWRENCE-LEWIS-MACON-MARSHALL-MAURY-MONTGOMERY-OVERTON-PERRY-
PICKETT-PUTNAM-ROBERTSON-RUTHERFORD-SMITH-STEWART-SUMNER-TROUSDALE-
VAN BUREN-WARREN-WAYNE-WHITE-WILLIAMSON-WILSON-
226 AM CDT MON AUG 27 2007

...NASHVILLE BROKE A 53 YEAR OLD RECORD YESTERDAY...AND ENDED
ANOTHER STRING...

YESTERDAY WAS THE 32ND CONSECUTIVE DAY OF 90 DEGREES AND ABOVE IN
NASHVILLE. THIS BROKE...A 53 YEAR OLD RECORD...FOR THE MOST
CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF 90 DEGREES AND ABOVE IN NASHVILLE. A STRING THAT
BEGAN BACK ON JULY 26TH. THE PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 31 DAYS SET IN
JUNE...OF 1952...AND TIED IN JUNE...OF 1954.

YESTERDAY'S HIGH TEMPERATURE IN NASHVILLE OF 94 DEGREES...ENDED AN
UNPRECEDENTED STREAK...OF 24 CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF 95 DEGREES AND
ABOVE IN NASHVILLE. THE OLD RECORD WAS 19 DAYS SET BACK IN JUNE
1952.

TO PUT THE RECENT HEAT WAVE IN PERSPECTIVE...THE 15 DAYS OF 100
DEGREES AND ABOVE IN NASHVILLE THIS MONTH...IS MORE THAN TWICE WHAT
OCCURRED IN THE PREVIOUS 15 YEARS. FROM 1991 TO 2006...NASHVILLE ONLY
HAD 6 DAYS OF 100 DEGREES AND ABOVE.

NASHVILLE HAS BROKEN FIVE DAILY HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORDS THIS
MONTH...AND EITHER BROKEN OR TIED...SEVEN...HIGHEST DAILY MINIMUM
TEMPERATURE RECORDS.

THERE HAS BEEN 15 DAYS OF 100 DEGREES OR ABOVE IN NASHVILLE THIS
MONTH...THIS SUMMER AND THIS YEAR SO FAR. THIS IS MORE THAN TWICE AS
MANY DAYS AS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST. THE PREVIOUS
RECORD WAS 7 DAYS SET BACK IN 1954. IT IS ALSO THE MOST EVER RECORDED
IN ANY MONTH. THE PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 11 DAYS BACK IN JUNE 1952. AS
FOR THE SUMMER...BACK IN 1954...NASHVILLE HAD 20 DAYS OF TRIPLE DIGIT
TEMPERATURES...AND IN 1952...WE HAD 19.

CURRENTLY...AUGUST 2007 IN NASHVILLE IS AVERAGING 9.4 DEGREES
ABOVE NORMAL. THIS IS 4.3 DEGREES HOTTER THAN THE HOTTEST AUGUST
ON RECORD...WHICH WAS IN 1995. AUGUST 2007 COULD ALSO END UP BEING
THE HOTTEST...OF ANY MONTH SINCE RECORD KEEPING BEGAN IN NASHVILLE...
NEARLY 137 YEARS AGO.

THE DAILY HIGH TEMPERATURE IN NASHVILLE THIS MONTH IS AVERAGING
99.7 DEGREES THROUGH AUGUST 26TH. THIS IS MORE THAN 12 DEGREES
ABOVE THE 30 YEAR AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH OF
AUGUST.

THE 106 DEGREES ON AUGUST 16TH NOT ONLY BROKE THE RECORD HIGH
TEMPERATURE FOR THAT DATE...BUT ALSO BROKE THE ALL TIME RECORD HIGH
FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST...WHICH HAD BEEN 105 DEGREES SET BACK IN
AUGUST 1930. THIS ALSO WAS THE HOTTEST TEMPERATURE IN NASHVILLE IN
THE LAST 55 YEARS...ONLY SURPASSED BY THE ALL TIME RECORD HEAT OF
107 DEGREES BACK ON JULY 27TH AND 28TH 1952.

THE DRIEST AUGUST ON RECORD...WAS BACK IN 1929 WHEN ONLY 0.51
INCHES FELL. OTHER DRY AUGUSTS INCLUDE...1936...1968 AND 1987.

SINCE THE FIRST OF JUNE...NASHVILLE HAS RECORDED ONLY 3.92 INCHES
OF RAINFALL. THE DRIEST JUNE THROUGH AUGUST ON RECORD...WAS IN
1954...WHEN 4.74 INCHES OF RAIN FELL. OTHER YEARS WITH A DRY JUNE
THROUGH AUGUST INCLUDE...1925...1948 AND 1943. RAINFALL SINCE JANUARY
1ST HAS TOTALED 17.39 INCHES...WHICH IS 14.71 INCHES BELOW NORMAL.

IN THE LAST 32 DAYS...NASHVILLE HAS MEASURED ONLY 0.08 INCHES OF
RAIN. THIS TIES THE STRING THAT STARTED ON AUGUST 17TH 1998. DURING
THIS STRING THERE WERE 21 DAYS IN WHICH NO RAIN FELL IN NASHVILLE.

A RECORD SETTING STRING OF 36 RAINLESS DAYS IN NASHVILLE BEGAN ON
SEPTEMBER 11TH 1923.

SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER ARE NORMALLY NASHVILLE'S DRIEST MONTHS.

MIDDLE TENNESSEE CURRENTLY IS CLASSIFIED AS HAVING AN EXTREME TO
EXCEPTIONAL DROUGHT CONDITIONS. SOME RAIN HAS FALLEN THE LAST
COUPLE OF DAYS ACROSS SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND ALONG THE
PLATEAU...BUT LITTLE IF ANY OVER THE NORTHWEST.
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BOBBY BOYD

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