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Daily highs
Record highs
The first half of the year was marked by drought, with temperatures that were mostly higher than usual. The Normal highs
trend was capped by a brutal late-June/early-July heat wave that produced record-breaking high temperatures for Normal lows
nearly two weeks. A strong El Niño in the Pacific helped to end the pattern, and also put a damper on hurricane Daily lows
season. By December, we had nearly wiped out a yearlong rainfall deficit and even saw some snow. Record lows
JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER
Record highs April 22 (90°) June 23 (101°) July 3 (100°)* Oct. 15 (92°)* One inch of
110°
TEMPERATURE for dates: June 24 (104°) July 4 (101°) snow fell at Bush On track to be
Jan. 3 (83°)* June 25 (102°) July 5 (102°) Intercontinental tied for 7th-
Daily highs and lows, June 26 (104°) Airport on Dec. coolest December
with normal and record June 28 (102°) 4, making it the on record, with
100° temperatures for each day: an average
June 29 (103°) earliest snowfall
temperature of
on record 50.1° (through
90° Wednesday)
80°
70°
60°
60˝
Normal: 47.84˝
50˝ RAINFALL 3rd-wettest 8th-driest 4th-driest
April on May on June on
Cumulative record, with record, with record, with Actual Normal
40˝ precipitation, 10.38 inches 0.38 inches 0.27 inches rainfall rainfall
in inches: of rain of rain of rain 2009
30˝ total:*
6th-driest
5th-wettest
47.01˝
20˝ January on October on
record, with
record, with
10˝ 0.49 inches * Through
May 1 - Sept. 1: Driest period on record, with 5.6 inches of rain 13.16 inches
of rain 7 p.m.
of rain Thursday
4.0˝
3.5˝ Daily April 18: 2.98˝ Oct. 22: Oct. 26: 2.43˝
April 17: 1.90˝ April 27: 1.76˝ 3.05˝
3.0˝ precipitation, Oct. 29: 2.45˝
2.5˝ in inches, with April 12: 1.01˝ April 18: 2.40˝
July 7: Sept. 22:
2.0˝ significant 1.61˝ Oct. 12: Dec. 1:
rainfall events March 12: 1.48˝
1.5˝ 1.05˝ 1.24˝ 1.38˝
1.0˝ highlighted:
0.5˝