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July Climate Recap The month of July ended slightly above normal in the temperature category, but by less than a half degree. While the first three weeks of the month featured only 2 days below normal (and both by a mere degree), a cool spell to end the month helped bring the average down. There…

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June Climate Recap Continuing the trend from May (but not quite the anomaly that May was), June temperatures averaged well above normal, to the tune of over 2 degrees, placing the month twelfth warmest on record. Twenty-four of the thirty days in June were above normal (although four of those six that were below normal…

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May Climate Recap After an April that will be remembered as the third coldest on record, averaging over six degrees below normal, May flipped the script and went into the record books as the warmest on record, nearly six degrees above the long-term average! The average temperature for the month was over 21 degrees warmer than…

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April Climate Recap April will be remembered as much cooler than average with temperatures over six degrees below the climatological average. In fact, the month featured one sub-freezing morning low (30 degrees on the eighth) and a monthly high of only 80 degrees (just four days after the 30-degree reading in fact)! The overall average…

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March Climate Recap As is typical for early spring in the Mid-South, temperatures fluctuated quite a bit in March, however the monthly average ended up right at average. No records were set despite have high temperatures that ranged from the mid 40s to upper 70s and lows that swung from the near 60 degrees to…

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February Climate Recap With a wet pattern dominating the weather in February, temperatures also were well above average due to increased moisture content in the atmosphere. For the month, the average temperature was 4.3 degrees above average, which ranks in the 88th percentile for warmth or 17th warmest February on record. High and low temperatures…

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January Climate Recap 2018 started off brutally cold, in the midst of a spell of cold weather that began around Christmas 2017. Though temperatures warmed by the second week of the month, another lengthy cold spell gripped the Mid-South during the middle of the month. The second half of the month was generally warmer than…

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December Climate Recap The month of December was marked by a series of frontal systems that brought large temperature swings and periods of wet weather. After starting very warm, multiple days of cool weather followed a front that brought about an inch of rain. Despite a couple of warmer days, temperatures were a bit below…

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November Climate Recap Temperatures ended up a bit above average for the month, with warm temperatures to start and end the month but a string of cooler than average days in the middle of the month. The highest temperature of the month (83°) occurred on the second during a strong of days that reached the…

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October Climate Recap Temperatures ended up slightly above average for the month, though the first half of the month featured more above average days, while the second half of the month saw more below average temperatures. In the early half of October, there were several days in the upper 80s and one day reached 92…

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September Climate Recap After a (relatively speaking) cool August, September continued the trend, as the first two weeks (actually 13 days) were the second coolest on record for that time of year. Every day from the 1st through the 14th registered at or below normal in the temperature department. However, it warmed up quickly during…

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August Climate Recap July temperatures were slightly above normal, but August returned to cooler than average weather for the third out of the previous four months. By the end of the month, only six of the previous 35 days had recorded an average temperature above normal, resulting in the coolest August in 13 years! I…

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July Climate Recap After consecutive months of below average temperatures, an anomaly in recent history, July moved back above average, but just barely. The average temperature of 83.1 degrees was about one-half degree above normal. The month as marked by a very hot spell in the third week of the month with mid to upper…

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June Climate Recap For the first time in recent memory, Memphis International Airport experienced consecutive months of below average temperatures in May and June. May 2017 was the first month that was cooler than average in a calendar year and this month was the first June that was cooler than average in 13 years, according…

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May Recap For the first time in a calendar year, May was actually cooler than average in Memphis, the first below normal monthly average since last May. The average first 90° day in Memphis is May 24, but the month came and went with the highest temperature being 89° reached twice at the end of…

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April Recap April continued playing from the same sheet of music as most other months over the past year.  Of the previous 12 months, 9 were in their respective top 10 warmest, with April 2017 ending as tenth warmest. Daily temperatures were above normal on all but 7 days last month. With respect to precipitation,…

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March Recap After a string of 8 of the past 9 months ending in their respective top 10 warmest, March yielded just slightly, but was still three degrees above normal. A string of days from the 11th-16th produced well below normal temperatures, otherwise every other day except one was at or above the normal daily…

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February Recap February ended very warm and dry overall. It marked the eighth month of the past nine in which the average temperature ranked in the top 10 for that month. In fact, February was the second of those eight months that ranked warmest on record, averaging 54.8°, or a full degree warmer than the…

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January Recap After December broke a streak of six consecutive months ranked in the top 10 warmest for their respective months, January returned to the top 10 rankings, tied for eighth warmest January on record.  The warmth lasted nearly all month with just one spell of multiple days that were well below average temperature-wise, which…

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