July 2008 Climate Statistics/Information
...JULY 2008 BROUGHT ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES...
...NORTH PLATTE WAS ALMOST ONE INCH BELOW NORMAL JULY PRECIPITATION...
...VALENTINE WAS SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL JULY PRECIPITATION...
AT NORTH PLATTE...THE AVERAGE DAILY MEAN TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH OF
JULY WAS 75.9 DEGREES...WHICH WAS 1.6 DEGREES ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 74.3
DEGREES. THE AVERAGE DAILY MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE WAS 89.9 DEGREES OR 1.5
DEGREES ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 88.4 DEGREES. THE AVERAGE DAILY MINIMUM
TEMPERATURE WAS 61.8 DEGREES DURING JULY 2008...OR 1.6 DEGREES ABOVE
THE NORMAL OF 60.2 DEGREES.
AT VALENTINE...THE AVERAGE DAILY MEAN TEMPERATURE FOR JULY WAS 75.2
DEGREES...OR 1.5 DEGREES ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 73.7 DEGREES. THE AVERAGE
DAILY MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE WAS 89.5 DEGREES...OR 1.2 DEGREES ABOVE THE
NORMAL OF 88.3 DEGREES. THE AVERAGE DAILY MINIMUM TEMPERATURE WAS 60.9
DEGREES...OR 1.8 DEGREES ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 59.1 DEGREES.
JULY 2008 PRECIPITATION AT LEE BIRD FIELD IN NORTH PLATTE TOTALED
2.23 INCHES...WHICH WAS 0.94 OF AN INCH OF AN INCH BELOW THE NORMAL
JULY PRECIPITATION AMOUNT OF 3.17 INCHES. A TRACE OR MORE PRECIPITATION
OCCURRED ON 17 DAYS DURING JULY IN NORTH PLATTE. SEVEN TENTHS OF AN INCH
(0.70) FELL DURING A 24 HOUR PERIOD FROM JULY 24TH TO JULY 25TH...AS THE
GREATEST 24 HOUR PRECIPITATION AMOUNT DURING THE MONTH OF JULY 2008.
THE MOST PRECIPITATION EVER RECORDED IN JULY IN NORTH PLATTE WAS 8.47 INCHES
DURING JULY 1879. 7.05 INCHES FELL DURING JULY 1979 FOR THE SECOND HIGHEST
MONTHLY TOTAL RECORDED...WHILE 6.79 INCHES FELL DURING JULY 1907 TO TAKE THE
THIRD SPOT IN HIGHEST JULY PRECIPITATION RECORD KEEPING. THE LOWEST JULY
PRECIPITATION EVER RECORDED WAS 0.34 OF AN INCH IN 1901.
FOR VALENTINE...PRECIPITATION DURING JULY 2008 TOTALED 3.66 INCHES WHICH
WAS 0.29 INCHES ABOVE THE NORMAL JULY PRECIPITATION OF 3.37 INCHES. A TRACE
OR MORE PRECIPITATION OCCURRED ON 14 DAYS DURING JULY IN VALENTINE.
THE RECORD HIGHEST PRECIPITATION TOTAL FOR VALENTINE DURING JULY WAS 8.96
INCHES DURING JULY OF 1983. 7.97 INCHES OF RAINFALL OCCURRED DURING JULY 1900
...RANKING AS THE SECOND HIGHEST MONTHLY JULY PRECIPITATION EVER. THE THIRD
HIGHEST JULY PRECIPITATION WAS 7.40 INCHES DURING JULY 1915. THE LEAST AMOUNT
OF JULY PRECIPITATION FOR VALENTINE WAS ONLY FOUR HUNDREDTHS (0.04) OF AN INCH
IN 1936. THE SECOND DRIEST JULY ON RECORD WAS TWENTY SIX (0.26) HUNDREDTHS OF
AN INCH IN JULY 1952. IN RECENT HISTORY...JULY 2006 RANKS AS THE THIRD DRIEST
JULY ON RECORD FOR VALENTINE...WITH ONLY TWENTY EIGHT (0.28) HUNDREDTHS OF AN
INCH RECIEVED. THE GREATEST 24 HOUR PRECIPITATION AMOUNT DURING JULY WAS 1.86
INCHES...DURING A 24 HOUR PERIOD FROM THE 18TH INTO THE 19TH OF JULY 2008.
THE LATEST 30 DAY OUTLOOK FOR AUGUST 2008 IS CALLING FOR EQUAL
CHANCES OF ABOVE...NORMAL...OR BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND
PRECIPITATION FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.
...NORTH PLATTE AND VALENTINE PRECIPITATION FOR THE LAST 12 MONTHS....
PRECIPITATION DEPARTURE
LBF VTN LBF VTN
MONTH
AUGUST 2007 0.76 3.39 -1.39 1.19
SEPTEMBER 2007 1.94 0.90 0.62 -0.71
OCTOBER 2007 1.17 2.79 -0.07 1.57
NOVEMBER 2007 0.02 0.02 -0.74 -0.70
DECEMBER 2007 0.84 0.91 0.44 0.58
JANUARY 2008 0.03 0.24 -0.36 -0.06
FEBRUARY 2008 0.10 0.48 -0.41 0.00
MARCH 2008 0.90 1.04 -0.34 -0.07
APRIL 2008 3.67 1.39 1.70 -0.58
MAY 2008 7.45 3.53 4.11 0.33
JUNE 2008 2.79 4.48 -0.38 1.47
JULY 2008 2.23 3.66 -0.94 0.29
TOTALS 21.90 24.34 2.24 3.31
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