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April Climate Recap April ended cool and slightly wetter than normal in Memphis. Temperatures averaged almost two degrees below normal, driven more by below average high temperatures than below average low temperatures. The warmest day of the month actually ended up being early in April, when on the 4th, the average temperature was 18 degrees…

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March Climate Recap Temperatures for the month of March in Memphis averaged 0.9 degrees above normal, though that departure was driven exclusively by overnight lows averaging more than two degrees above normal due to extensive cloud cover and precipitation. Those same conditions actually resulted in daytime high temperatures averaging below normal for the month.  March…

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February Climate Recap Temperatures for the month of February in Memphis averaged over 5 degrees above normal.  The month started out cold with highs in the low 30’s due to freezing rain on the 1st, but by the 5th highs were back to the 60’s.  Highs climbed to the low 70’s on the 7th, but…

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January Climate Recap Temperatures for the month of January in Memphis averaged above normal with high temperatures almost 6 degrees above average, and low temperatures over 6 degrees above average. The month started out warm with highs in the 70’s, but by the 4th highs were back to the 50’s.  A brief warmup occurred from…

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December Climate Recap Temperatures for the month of December in Memphis averaged very close to normal with high temperatures about a degree below average, but low temperatures about a degree above average. With a couple of exceptions, most days in the first half of the month were warmer than average with highs in the 50s…

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November Climate Recap Temperatures for the month of November in Memphis averaged just below normal, though about two-thirds of the month was actually above normal. The average was skewed down by a 10-day cold snap mid-month with multiple days 10-16 degrees below average, several of them sporting highs only in the 40s. That also drove…

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October Climate Recap Temperatures for the month of October in Memphis averaged just below normal, though the number of above and below average days were fairly equal. Most of the above average days were in the last third of the month, while a cold spell mid-month (highs in the 50s) helped to skew the monthly…

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September Climate Recap Temperatures in September started above normal for the first week of the month as highs routinely reached the 90s, however, a cold front brought the mercury back down to near average into the second week of the month. Another warming trend took hold as strong high pressure built over the middle of…

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August Climate Recap The heat of late June and July continued into the first week or so of August, before settling in near average for the next couple of weeks. The last week of the month turned to above average once again, with the end result being an average temperature for the month near one…

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July Climate Recap Heat was the story in the month of July as the hot and dry pattern from the second half of June blasted right through the calendar change and continued for nearly the entire month. Only four days failed to reach a high of at least 95 and three were the final three…

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June Climate Recap The first third of the month of June was overall relatively decent, with seven of the first 11 days featuring temperatures below average and about an inch of rain falling. However, the pattern changed starting on the 12th. From that day through the end of the month, there were only three days…

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May Climate Recap Conditions warmed rather dramatically in May after a cooler than average April. Only three days were below average temperature-wise in the first three weeks of the month before cooler weather settled in during the last week of the month. Multiple 90 degree days occurred beginning mid-month with daily record highs set or…

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April Climate Recap Coming out of a slightly warmer than average month of March, April returned to the slightly below average temperatures that marked the first couple of months of 2022. As typical for spring, temperatures varied from above normal to below normal as fronts crossed the region. By mid-month, the first 80s of the…

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March Climate Recap The first two months of 2022 ended up cooler than average, and although March was overall warmer than normal, one cold spell in particular resulted in a late winter snowstorm. The first week of the month was very warm, with three temperature records being set or tied. Then, five days after a…

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January Climate Recap Following the second warmest December on record, the “heat” broke on January 2 after a record warm New Year’s Day that topped out at 79 degrees. Temperatures roller-coastered throughout the month but ended up nearly 2 degrees below normal. Twenty-three days recorded below freezing low temperatures while nine days had high temperatures…

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December Climate Recap While November was cooler and much drier than average, December turned the tables as the majority of the country ended above normal, and the central and eastern portions finished, in most cases, warmer than the month of November. This was especially true in Memphis where the average temperature for the month was…

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November Climate Recap Coming out of a warmer than average October, November cooled off quite a bit and ended below average by more than a degree. There was one significant, if brief, warm spell mid-month as highs reached the mid 70s, but overall there were fairly large swings during the month. Nineteen days ended at…

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October Climate Recap With October typically introducing the first cool air of the year, this month was a little less cool than might be expected. The first half of the month (15 days) were all above average temperature-wise with most days in the 80s for highs and 60s for lows. In fact, for the first…

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