by Michael Clancy - Sept. 18, 2012 10:16 PM
The Republic | azcentral.com
It wasn't terribly hot, not especially cool, not too wet but not super dry. Arizona's summer was not very distinguished at all, even though in the first half of August it felt extra hot and possibly endless.
The National Climatic Data Center has put out its statistics on the months it classifies as summer: June, July and August.
Using those guidelines, Arizona had its:
12th-warmest summer, averaging 74.41 degrees. Phoenix's average for the whole year has been higher than that since 2000, according to the National Weather Service.
Eighth-wettest summer, with total rainfall of 5.37 inches. Phoenix has seen less rain annually in four of the last 11 years.
The data center bases its figures on averages of seven climate divisions around the state.
Such numbers seem positively heavenly to a resident of the Phoenix area. The temperature dropped to 74 degrees only once in each of the data center's summer months.
But the official numbers for Phoenix do not show any standout figures either. The average temperature was about 94.3 degrees, and the total rainfall was 2.41 inches -- neither figure especially high or low.
Phoenix had 85 days of temperatures over 100 during the three-month period and 108 so far this year, perfectly average. But the area had more than its fair share of 110-degree days so far this year -- 23 of them, more than the average of 18 but 10 fewer than in 2011.
Both summer and the monsoon continued well past the national data center's end-of-August cutoff. Summer ends on Friday, and the average temperature for the month through Monday was 88.4, or 2.2 degrees below normal. The addition of the September temperatures, along with the deletion of the first three weeks of June, would knock the summer temperature average down even further.
September also added 0.59 inch of rain, contributing to a total of 3 inches of rain during Phoenix's 2012 monsoon, a bit above average. No rain is forecast through next Tuesday, and the monsoon ends on Sept. 30.
19 Sep, 2012
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Source: http://www.azcentral.com/community/mesa/articles/2012/09/18/20120918arizona-summer-average.html
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