2009.07.31
A cool July reaches the finish line
Due to some weather data issues and other problems, I've scrapped what was on this blog entry altogether and recapped July on a later entry that can be found by clicking here.
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Kevin Myatt works on the copy desk for The Roanoke Times and is its principal weather geek, writing a weekly weather column and advising the newsroom on weather topics. He helps guide students on a storm chasing trip to the central U.S. each May and was an editor for "Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States."
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Someone asked me about the hottest Julys on record. Here is a link to that and a large number of other historical superlatives for Roanoke, Blacksburg, Lynchburg, Danville and Bluefield, WVa. from the National Weather Service in Blacksburg.
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/rnk/climate/top10s/top10s_temps.html
Comment by Kevin Myatt — July 31, 2009 @ 6:17 pm
And here's a New York Times perspective on the cool summer in the Big Apple:
http://tinyurl.com/kr9djt
Comment by Kevin Myatt — August 1, 2009 @ 1:53 pm