by Barney Leach
August 2020 clocked out as our hottest and driest month for the year with only 0.99 inch of rain.
We had only two days with measurable rainfall with a one-day greatest total of 0.58 inch on August 26. Normal rainfall for August is 2.43 inches.
Our total rainfall for the year now stands at 43.38 inches which puts us 0.97 inch above normal for the entire year.
Our normal rainfall through August is 26.64 inches.
Our normal annual rainfall is 42.41 inches.
Our record wettest August was 9.25 inches in 2008.
The record driest August was no measureable rainfall in 2011 and again in 2019.
August temperatures were slightly above normal with highs mostly in the mid to upper 90’s.
High temperature for the month was 100 degrees on August 15 and 16. Low temperature for the month was 72 degrees on August 1, 3, 17 and 22.
Our normally hottest month of the year is July but August takes the title this year.
Three hottest months of the year are now behind us.
Looking ahead to September: September is normally our fourth hottest month with autumn clockin in on the 22nd in the low 90’s.
However, September has produced our hottest day of the year twice in the past 26 years.
Normal rainfall for September is 2.84 inches.
Our record wettest September was 7.89 inches in 1998.
The record driest was 0.17 in 2019.
The rainfall and temperature data was recorded by Barney Leach, former co-op weather volunteer for the National Weather Service, and former weather volunteer for Channel 8 in Dallas, Chanel 10 in Waco and radio station KNES in Fairfield.
