PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
639 AM CDT MON OCT 1 2007

SEPTEMBER 2007 TEMPERATURES WELL ABOVE NORMAL

TEMPERATURES ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS WERE WELL ABOVE NORMAL DURING
SEPTEMBER. THE AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE WAS ONE TO THREE
DEGREES WARMER THAN NORMAL. HOUSTON INTERCONTINENTAL AIRPORT HAD
AN AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE OF 81.9 DEGREES. THIS IS THE EIGHTH
WARMEST SEPTEMBER ON RECORD. THE WARMEST SEPTEMBER OCCURRED BACK
IN 2005. GALVESTON WAS ALSO QUITE WARM AND SCHOLES FIELD HAD A
MONTHLY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 83.0 DEGREES WHICH IS THE TENTH
WARMEST SEPTEMBER ON RECORD. COLLEGE STATION ALSO ENDURED ABOVE
NORMAL TEMPERATURES WITH AN AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE OF 81.6
DEGREES (17TH WARMEST ON RECORD). DESPITE THE UNSEASONABLY WARM
TEMPERATURES THERE WERE NO HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORDS DURING THE
MONTH.

THE OTHER WEATHER STORY OF THE MONTH WAS THE DEVELOPMENT AND
IMPACT OF HURRICANE HUMBERTO. THE STORM DEVELOPED CLOSE TO THE
UPPER TEXAS COAST ON THE 12TH. HUMBERTO BECAME A TROPICAL DEPRESSION
BY MID- MORNING AND INTENSIFIED INTO A TROPICAL STORM BY EVENING.
THE STORM CONTINUED TO STRENGTHEN AS IT MOVED PARALLEL TO THE
COAST. THE CENTER OF HUMBERTO CROSSED THE COAST EAST OF HIGH
ISLAND AND PRODUCE BETWEEN 6 AND 8 INCHES OF RAIN OVER A SMALL
PART OF THE BOLIVAR PENINSULA AND EXTREME EASTERN CHAMBERS COUNTY.
THE STORM ALSO PRODUCED SUSTAINED WINDS OF 50 TO 60 MPH WITH
HIGHER GUSTS. AGAIN...MOST OF THE DAMAGE WAS CONFINED TO THE
BOLIVAR PENINSULA AND EASTERN CHAMBERS COUNTY.

BELOW IS A TABLE WITH TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL DATA FOR SOME
CLIMATE SITES ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS:

SITE     AVG     AVG     AVG
         HIGH    LOW     DAILY     DEP     RAIN    DEP

IAH      91.5    72.2    81.9      +3.0    3.05    -1.28
GLS      88.1    77.7    83.0      +1.9    8.15    +2.39
CLL      91.4    71.7    81.6      +1.9    1.72    -2.19
HOU      90.1    74.5    82.3      +1.8    6.31    +0.69
CXO      89.9    68.9    79.4      +1.1    2.62    -1.84
UTS      90.0    70.2    80.1      +2.1    3.11    -1.62
DWH      91.0    71.3    81.2      +2.5    2.31    -2.79
SGR      90.8    72.4    81.6              2.36
LBX      88.4    70.7    79.5      +0.3    3.24    -1.52
LVJ      88.5    73.0    80.8      +0.9    5.00    +0.39
PSX      89.1    72.9    81.0      +2.0    2.51    -4.07
HGX      87.2    72.3    79.7      +1.4    4.35    -2.76

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