Clinton area weather observer Jim Blaess reports above normal temperature and nearly double the precipitation.
Clinton area official weather observer Jim Blaess reports the overall average temperature was nearly 75 degrees (74.8). He says that’s about two degrees (2.2) above average (72.6).
Blaess says it was the 19th warmest August in the records to 1879.
The average overnight low during the month was about 66 degrees (66.5) and tied for the 5th warmest average low to 1891. The lowest reading was 56 degrees on August 21st and Blaess says that was also the 5th warmest overnight low to 1891.
The highest temperature recorded was 88 on the 3rd and the 10th. The weather observer says that’s the 10th time since 1893 there were not days with 90 degrees or higher in an August. The normal is 4 days.
Blaess says the precipitation for the month was about 8-point-6 inches (8.62) which is more than four inches (4.2) above the normal of about 4-point-4 inches (4.41). He says it is the 10th highest rain fall since 1878.
Blaess says that’s the most in the month of August since nearly 8-point-8 inches of rain in August 1993.
Through the first eight months of the year Blaess says the precipitation is nearly 32 inches (31.89) which is nearly seven inches more than the normal (24.92).
For the meteorological summer of June, July and August it was the 9th wettest summer period since 1878.
Blaess says there was about 20 inches of precipitation which compares to the normal of about 12-and-a-half inches (12.61)/
The wettest summer period was 1993 with over 24 inches of precipitation (24.57).
For September there is normally just under three inches of rain (2.95) with one day of 90 and above temperatures.
The average high on September first is 81 and average low is 60. Blaess says those drop to 71 and 48
Blaess adds that September 2015 was the 3rd warmest September in the records to 1879.
