PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 105 PM CDT THU AUG 10 2006 ...JULY 2006 MUCH WETTER THAN NORMAL... ...TEMPERATURES COOLER THAN NORMAL... WHILE OTHER PARTS OF THE NATION BAKED UNDER A HOT SUMMER SUN... SOUTHEAST TEXAS SUSTAINED NEAR TO SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES. PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AND ABUNDANT CLOUD COVER HELPED TO KEEP TEMPERATURES BELOW NORMAL. DESPITE THE LACK OF TROPICAL SYSTEMS...RAINFALL DURING JUNE AND JULY AVERAGED BETWEEN 10 AND 15 INCHES ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS. A FEW SPOTS RECEIVED BETWEEN 25 AND 30 INCHES OF RAIN DURING JUNE AND JULY. COLLEGE STATION RECEIVED 5.86 INCHES OF RAIN FOR THE MONTH. THIS IS THE EIGHTH WETTEST JULY ON RECORD. GALVESTON RECEIVED 9.39 INCHES OF RAIN DURING THE MONTH AND THIS WAS THE NINTH WETTEST JULY IN RECORDED HISTORY. AT INTERCONTINENTAL AIRPORT IN HOUSTON...JULY RAINFALL TALLIED 7.85 INCHES. THIS IS THE 11TH WETTEST JULY IN RECORDED HISTORY. ALTHOUGH OUR NEIGHBORS TO THE NORTH ARE ENDURING A SEVERE DROUGHT...SEVERAL COMMUNITIES IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARE APPROACHING THEIR ANNUAL RAINFALL AVERAGES. SO FAR IN 2006... LIBERTY HAS RECEIVED 52.87 INCHES OF RAIN (AVG ANNUAL 60.83) AND ANAHUAC AND HOUSTON PORT HAVE RECEIVED 44.76 AND 40.29 INCHES OF RAIN RESPECTIVELY. MATAGORDA HAS RECEIVED 39.39 INCHES OF RAIN THIS YEAR AND THE ANNUAL AVERAGE RAINFALL IS TYPICALLY 43.07 INCHES. IN A STATISTICAL ANOMALY...ALL THREE PRIMARY CLIMATE SITES HAD THE SAME AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE IN JULY AS OBSERVED IN JUNE. HERE IS THE JULY TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL DATA FROM A FEW SITES ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS SITE AVG AVG AVG DEP RAIN DEP HIGH LOW DAILY IAH 91.2 75.3 83.3 -0.3 7.85 +4.67 GLS 88.3 79.0 83.6 -0.7 9.39 +5.94 CLL 92.7 74.8 83.7 -0.9 5.86 +3.94 HOU 89.5 75.3 82.4 -2.1 7.76 +3.40 CXO 91.6 72.4 82.0 -1.5 4.30 +1.06 UTS 92.5 74.5 83.5 -0.1 3.80 +1.13 DWH 91.5 75.1 83.3 +0.4 8.00 +3.94 SGR 90.1 74.0 82.0 -1.3 9.14 +4.84 LVJ 90.5 76.1 83.3 +0.7 12.88 +7.80 HGX 88.0 73.5 80.8 -1.5 10.06 +6.83 LBX 89.3 74.0 81.7 +0.5 9.04 +5.27 PSX 88.7 77.4 83.0 -0.4 14.28 +10.29 && HERE ARE SOME TWO MONTH (JUNE-JULY) RAINFALL TOTALS FOR A FEW CO-OP SITES ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS SITE JUNE JULY TOTAL ANAHUAC 9.26 15.94 25.20 BAY CITY 7.28 9.11 16.39 BAYTOWN 6.44 12.24 18.68 CLODINE 5.83 11.39 17.22 DANEVANG 5.72 11.73 17.45 FREEPORT 7.90 9.02 16.92 DEER PARK 5.60 10.50 16.10 HOUSTON HEIGHTS 8.34 8.99 17.33 HOUSTON PORT 20.38 8.25 28.63 JAMAICA BEACH 5.34 11.46 16.80 KATY 4.36 7.83 12.19 LIBERTY 16.17 13.68 29.85 MATAGORDA 16.45 13.47 29.92 NEW CANEY 7.20 7.56 14.76 RICHMOND 2.91 13.68 16.59 SOMERVILLE DAM 5.61 4.43 10.04 WEST COLUMBIA 6.95 7.27 14.22 WHARTON 4.02 8.14 12.16 RECORDS RECORD LOW MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE GALVESTON 82 DEGREES ON THE 5TH (TIED) 82 DEGREES IN 1985 HOUSTON 86 DEGREES ON THE 2ND 87 DEGREES IN 1963 82 DEGREES ON THE 3RD 85 DEGREES IN 1989 85 DEGREES ON THE 4TH 88 DEGREES IN 1955 RECORD HIGH MINIMUM GALVESTON 83 DEGREES ON THE 31ST (TIED) 83 DEGREES IN 1993 HOUSTON 80 DEGREES ON THE 17TH 79 DEGREES IN 1987 COLLEGE STATION 78 DEGREES ON THE 20TH (TIED) 78 DEGREES IN 1925 RECORD RAINFALL GALVESTON 2.86 INCHES ON THE 3RD 1.73 INCHES IN 1942 HOUSTON 2.08 INCHES ON THE 26TH 0.60 INCHES IN 1963 COLLEGE STATION 1.56 INCHES ON THE 4TH 1.50 INCHES IN 1948 $$