Summer Stats

I just finished crunching the numbers for this past summer (June through August). Surprisingly, it was warmer than average at 68.9 degrees. This is 3.7 degrees warmer than the long term (1926 thru 2006) average of 65.2 degrees. Looking at the shorter term average (2000 through 2006), it was only 0.3 degrees warmer. So, it was a warm summer historically speaking, but not much warmer than recent summers. The warmest summer since 2000 has been 70.1 degrees in 2004.

Summer rainfall was 1.28", pretty close to the long term average of 1.39".

Wind speed averaged 4.9 mph, with the long term average being 4.8.

This weeks web poll asks your opinion/wild guess as to what this Fall's weather will be. I'm guessing warmer and drier than average. We shall see. Oregon's official climate experts (Oregon Climate Service), are predicting slightly warmer temps with average rainfall through December.