July 2010 Revisited

Compared to historical averages, July in Hood River was either warmer or cooler (depending on long term vs short term averages), drier, and slightly windier.

At my weather station, the average temperature of 69.3° was warmer than long term averages (67.3°), but cooler than more recent (2000-2009) averages of 71.7°, making it the coolest July at my weather station since 2001. The high heat index for the month was 97°, and the low wind chill was 46°.

There were brief hot spells around the 8th and 24th, but other than that, no major heat waves.

There was no measurable rainfall, which isn't unusual for July in Hood River.

The 24 hour avg wind speed was 5.1 mph against an average of 5.0 mph. This broke the long stretch of lower average wind speeds that had held for the previous 10 months. July was windy, for sure, but then July is, on average, the windiest month in Hood River.

There was 1 local weather record set in July. On July 10th, the "high low" temperature of 68° surpassed the old record of 66° (1985).

The tabular data below is from my home weather station. To view its July 2010 monthly summary and graphs at Weather Underground, click here.

The "historical average" numbers for temperature and rainfall are from the Hood River MCAREC data. Historical wind average is from my station's 2000 to 2009 data. Note that average wind speeds include all 24 hours of the day and night, which is why they are way lower than daytime peak winds. In addition, the wind speed at this station is considerably lower than on the Columbia River.

	High	Low	Average	Historical Average
Temperature (F)	100	46	69.3	67.3
Wind (mph)	38		5.1	5.0
Rainfall (in)	0.00		0.00 (total)	0.22

A gorgeous Gorge sunset, shot by local videographer Tyler Shortt