[BNAWX] Public Information Statement

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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
223 AM CDT MON AUG 31 2009

...COOLER THAN NORMAL THIS SUMMER IN NASHVILLE BUT NOT BY MUCH...

AFTER A WARM JUNE...BOTH JULY AND AUGUST WERE BELOW NORMAL IN
TEMPERATURE FOR 2009. TAKEN COLLECTIVELY...THE SUMMER MONTHS IN
NASHVILLE WERE ONLY SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL IN TEMPERATURE...BY A
HALF OF A DEGREE...WHILE RAINFALL WAS ABOVE NORMAL BY MORE THAN
AN INCH AND A HALF.

THE HOTTEST TEMPERATURE THIS SUMMER WAS 95 DEGREES ON JUNE 22ND AND
27TH...WHILE THE COOLEST CAME ON JUNE 6TH WITH 51 DEGREES. NASHVILLE
HAD ONLY 28 DAYS OF 90 DEGREES OR ABOVE...WHICH IS WELL BELOW THE
NORMAL OF 43 FOR JUNE THROUGH AUGUST. THE LEAST NUMBER OF 90 DEGREE
DAYS OR ABOVE ON RECORD IS 9 WHICH OCCURRED WAY BACK IN THE SUMMER
OF 1889.

RAINFALL TOTALED 12.70 INCHES THIS SUMMER WHICH IS 1.57 INCHES ABOVE
NORMAL. BOTH JUNE AND JULY WERE ABOVE NORMAL WHILE AUGUST WAS BELOW
NORMAL.

MONTH RAINFALL/INCHES   ABOVE/BELOW

  JUNE  4.53            +0.45
  JULY  6.03            +2.26
AUGUST  2.14            -1.14

METEOROLOGIST AND CLIMATOLOGISTS TRADITIONALLY HAVE CONSIDERED
JUNE THROUGH AUGUST THE METEOROLOGICAL SUMMER...WHILE THE ASTRONOMICAL
SUMMER BEGINS WITH THE SUMMER SOLTICE AND ENDS WITH THE AUTUMNAL EQUINOX.
THE INFORMATION ABOVE IS BASED ON THE METEOROLOGICAL SUMMER.

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BOYD




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