June 2009 Revisited

Compared to historical averages, June in Hood River was warmer, drier, and slightly windier.

The temperature was 3.9 degrees warmer than long term averages, and 1.8 degrees warmer than more recent averages (2000-2008). This was the warmest June since 2003. Precipitation was only 0.10" against a long term average of 0.80". The wind speed was slightly higher than average.

This was definitely not a repeat of last year's chilly "June-uary", which was 5 degrees cooler than this June. All in all, it was a very pleasant month, if a bit on the dry side. We were taunted and teased by approaching thunderstorms several times, but the storm cells had this annoying habit of missing us and heading for points south, north and west. Anywhere but here. :(

There was 1 local weather record set in June. The low temperature of 61 degrees on the 18th exceeded the old "high low" record for the date (60 degrees in 1961)

The data below is from my home weather station. To view its 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 2008 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)	90	43	65.8	61.9
Wind (mph)	30		4.9	4.7
Rainfall (in)	0.10		0.05 (total)	0.80