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Posted by National Weather Service on 7/1/2009, 10:09 pm
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ACROSS THE BOARD...THE WEATHER IN THE MCGRATH LAST MONTH WAS
REMARKABLY AVERAGE. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 56.7 DEGREES WAS
RIGHT AT AVERAGE...WITH THE LOW TEMPERATURE ABOUT 1 DEGREE WARMER
THAN NORMAL...AND THE HIGH TEMPERATURE 1 DEGREE BELOW NORMAL. THE
HIGH TEMPERATURE ROSE ABOVE 70 DEGREES IN 8 DAYS OF THE MONTH...TIES
FOR THE 13TH LEAST ON RECORD...AND IS 3 DAYS LESS THAN NORMAL. THE
HIGH TEMPERATURE ALSO FAILED TO CRACK 80 DEGREES IN JUNE...WHICH
SHOULD NORMALLY OCCUR TWICE.
RAINFALL LAST MONTH WAS MOSTLY DOMINATED BY AFTERNOON AND EVENING
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE UPPER KUSKOKWIM. A TOTAL OF 1.62
INCHES OF RAIN WAS OBSERVED...WHICH IS 0.17 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL...AND
THE 26TH WETTEST JUNE ON RECORD. OF THIS TOTAL...ROUGHLY 60 PERCENT
WAS FROM AFTERNOON SHOWERS...AND THE REMAINING 40 PERCENT OCCURRED
DURING THE LONG LASTING AND WETTING RAINS OF THE 24TH AND 25TH. LAST
MONTHS RAINFALL WAS ALSO JUST A SHADE OVER HALF OF THE RAIN RECEIVED
LAST JUNE WHEN ALMOST 3 INCHES OF RAIN FELL...THE 4TH WETTEST JUNE ON
RECORD.
A 36 MPH SOUTHEAST WIND GUST IN THE EARLY EVENING OF THE 21ST WAS THE
ONLY NEW RECORD SET FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE. THE PREVIOUS RECORD WAS
35 MPH SET IN JUNE OF 2006.
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