Friday, August 13, 2010

Great question from the National Weather Service: "WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO SUMMER IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?"

National Weather Service - NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO SUMMER IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?
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AFTER A JUNE IN WHICH TEMPERATURES WERE BELOW NORMAL ACROSS MOST
OF SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA...JULY CONTINUED TO BE VERY COOL. IN
FACT...IT WAS AMONG THE COOLEST JULYS EVER RECORDED ACROSS PORTIONS
OF THE SOUTHLAND.

AT LOS ANGELES AIRPORT...JULY 2010 TIED WITH JULY 1948 AND JULY 1965
AS THE COOLEST SINCE RECORDS BEGAN THERE IN AUGUST 1944. THE AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 65.7 DEGREES...OR 3.6 DEGREES BELOW
THE NORMAL AVERAGE OF 69.3 DEGREES. THE AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR
THE MONTH AT LOS ANGELES AIRPORT WAS A CHILLY 70.5 DEGREES...4.8
DEGREES BELOW NORMAL...AND BY FAR THE COOLEST SINCE 1944. THE
PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 71.6 DEGREES...SET IN 1965.
...
DAILY RECORD LOW MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES WERE SET OR TIED AT SOME
LOCATION IN SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA ON 24 DAYS DURING THE MONTH.

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AT LOS ANGELES AIRPORT...DAILY RECORD LOW MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES WERE
SET OR TIED ON 14 DAYS IN JULY...INCLUDING THE LOWEST DAILY MAXIMUM
TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED IN THE MONTH OF JULY...65 DEGREES ON THE
8TH. THAT WOULD BE BELOW NORMAL EVEN FOR JANUARY!
...
SO FAR THE MONTH OF AUGUST HAS CONTINUED THE VERY COOL THEME.
THROUGH THE FIRST 10 DAYS OF THE MONTH...THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE AT
LOS ANGELES AIRPORT WAS 63.8 DEGREES...6.3 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. IN
ADDITION...THE AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE WAS 68.8...NEARLY 8 DEGREES
BELOW THE NORMAL OF 76.4 DEGREES. RECORD LOW MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES
WERE SET OR TIED ON EACH OF THE FIRST 9 DAYS OF THE MONTH AT LOS
ANGELES AIRPORT.

[Southern California: Still more record cold] - SignOnSanDiego.com
Record book: Vista and Oceanside Harbor experienced record "low maximum" temperatures on Thursday. In Vista, the temperature only reached 73, the lowest maximum for Aug. 12 since a reading of 75 in 1979. And Oceanside Harbor reached only 65 degrees, which is four degrees cooler than the previous record for that date, set in 2005.

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