2008.08.28
Thermometer reveals a very different August than '07
Taking a break from the tropical talk ... the cloudy, rainy weather has brought down the averages for what was already a much cooler August than last year's stiflingly hot one. On Wednesday, Roanoke's high of 65 beat by one degree the record for coolest high temperature on Aug. 27, previously set in 1937. Blacksburg tied a 45-year-old mark with a high of only 62. Roanoke's temperatures the past three days, highs and lows, have been 75/64, 65/60 and 70/61, when the average runs 84/62. As a result, Roanoke is almost a degree below normal in average temperature for the month at 74.1, which is a whopping 8 degrees below the average last August ended with. With three days of highs no higher than the low to mid 80s -- and that only if there's substantial sunshine --- and lows in the 60s expected to close out the month, this will likely go down as a slightly cooler than normal August overall, and a radical departure from last year's hottest month on record.
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