"COOL" SUMMER STATS & TOP TEN CLIMATE LISTS

Written By: Brian Neudorff

This is has definitely been a strange summer. The overall pattern for the months of June and July featured an unusual position for the jet stream during the summer. It spent a good deal of the summer to our south allowing unseasonably cool air locked in parts of the Midwest, Great Lakes and the Northeast including Western New York. So far this summer season, many cities have shattered records for summer chill. Here are the 2009 statistics for Rochester which reflect the near record lack of heat so far this summer. The following information is from the National Weather Service in Buffalo:

.AT ROCHESTER...
...PERIOD OF RECORD 138 YEARS (1872 TO PRESENT)

...COOLEST JULY IN 125 YEARS (66.2)...2ND COOLEST EVER (TO 65.4 IN 1884).
...COOLEST JUNE-JULY COMBO EVER (64.9). NEXT WAS 65.1 IN 1992.
...COOLEST YEARLY MAX TEMP EVER THROUGH JULY...86 ON 6/25.
...FEWEST 80+ DAYS THROUGH JULY..12. NORM 35. (PREV MIN 15 IN 1926)
...FEWEST 86+ DAYS THROUGH JULY..1. NORM 15. (PRV MIN 2 IN 1958,2004)
...FEWEST COOLING DEGREE DAYS THROUGH JULY...144. NORM 356.

Have you ever wondered what the top 10 snowiest Januaries were? Maybe the wettest June? Well now you can, the National Weather Service has posted on their website the top 10 snowiest, least snowy, wettest, driest, warmest and coldest months for Rochester here.
Top 10 Climate List for Rochester