3,000 Low Temp Records Set This July!

It's not just the surface land temps -- Blog reader Tim points out "Water temps at Frying Pan Shoals (off Cape Fear) fell to 78 degrees a few days ago; NDBC historical data shows this occurs only 0.3% of the time in July!"

Weather and Climate Through the Eyes of Mark Vogan: 15 Years since Minneapolis has failed to hit 90, even longer since it's failed to get above 85 by July 23rd!

Amazingly it's been 15 years since Minneapolis failed the 90-degree mark for the month of July. In July 1994 the Twin Cities topped off at 88 for a max, ironically the peak high so far in July 2009 is only 85 degrees and with a few record low high's and some cool nights, this month in likely to end 5-6 degrees below normal. Chicago which has seen a max so far this month of only 86, it's running 5.6 below normal.