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 Record Setting Heat

Amazingly Dry, For Some

A month for the record books, as almost daily above normal temperatures pushed the monthly average temperature into the top ten warmest July's on record for all of northern Michigan.  While not a whole lot of daily high temperature records were set, it was the persistent warm (hot) conditions that this July will be remembered for.

Perhaps even a bigger story was the wide range in rain totals for the month.  While no areas were particularly wet, areas across eastern Upper Michigan and south of M-72 over northern Lower Michigan received much more rain than those along the M-32 corridor.  While thunderstorms and their beneficial rains, by nature, are generally sporadic and scattered, they simply remained nearly non-existent for areas of northern Lower Michigan north of M-72.  Monthly rainfall totals through the M-32 corridor were mostly under an inch, especially west of I-75.  While not explicitly mentioned in the tables below (all records reserved for our Local Climate Data sites), Gaylord experienced their driest July on record (just beating out July of 1965) since consistent precipitation records began at that location back in 1940. 

July Temperature Data:

Sault Ste Marie (1888 - Present)

July Mean	Normal	Departure	Ranking*	Warmest Temp/Date	Coolest Temp/Date	Record Warm/Year	Record Cold/Year
68.7	63.9	+4.8	8th Warmest	88 / 17th	50 / 7th	74.1 / 1921	57.4 / 1992

 

Houghton Lake (1919 - Present)

July Mean	Normal	Departure	Ranking*	Warmest Temp/Date	Coolest Temp/Date	Record Warm/Year	Record Cold/Year
72.5	66.7	+5.8	3rd Warmest	93 / 19th, 20th	48 / 14th, 27th	74.4 / 1921	62.0 / 2009

 

Alpena (1916 - Present)

July Mean	Normal	Departure	Ranking*	Warmest Temp/Date	Coolest Temp/Date	Record Warm/Year	Record Cold/Year
72.2	66.7	+5.5	Tied 2nd Warmest	97 / 17th	49 / 1st	73.5 / 1921	61.3 / 1992

 

Traverse City (airport)

July Mean	Normal	Departure	Warmest Temp/Date	Coolest Temp/Date
74.8	69.6	+5.2	96 / 17th, 20th	53 / 4th

 

Gaylord (airport)

July Mean	Normal	Departure	Warmest Temp/Date	Coolest Temp/Date
71.2	67.5	+3.7	95 / 20th	48 / 14th, 27th

July Precipitation Data (inches):

Sault Ste Marie (1888 - Present)

Precipitation	Normal	Departure	Ranking*	Greatest 24-hr rainfall (in)	Days with measurable precip	Record Wettest/Year	Record Driest/Year
2.80	3.14	-0.34	N/A	1.44 on the 11th	10	7.23 / 1996	0.22 / 1906

 

Houghton Lake (1919 - Present)

Precipitation	Normal	Departure	Ranking*	Greatest 24-hr rainfall (in)	Days with measurable precip	Record Wettest/Year	Record Driest/Year
2.80	2.75	+0.05	N/A	1.65 on the 24th	7	8.09 / 1952	0.55 / 1989

 

Alpena (1916 - Present)

Precipitation	Normal	Departure	Ranking*	Greatest 24-hr rainfall (in)	Days with measurable precip	Record Wettest/Year	Record Driest/Year
1.89	3.17	-1.28	N/A	0.72 on the 18th	9	7.17 / 1975	0.22 / 1989

 

Traverse City (Coop)

Precipitation	Normal	Departure
0.99	3.14	-2.15

 

Gaylord (Coop)

Precipitation	Normal	Departure
0.52	3.22	-2.70

 

- all averages are calculated using the 1971 - 2000 period

 ( ) = Consistent years of record

* = only rankings in the top 10 will be entered, and only for our Local Climate Data (LCD) sites

**THESE DATA ARE PRELIMINARY AND HAVE NOT UNDERGONE FINAL QUALITY CONTROL BY THE NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER.  THEREFORE, THESE DATA ARE SUBJECT TO REVISION.  FINAL AND CERTIFIED CLIMATE DATA CAN BE ACCESSED AT WWW.NCDC.NOAA.GOV.**

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 * Data for Traverse City is derived from a composite of observations taken at both Cherry Capital Airport and the cooperative observing station at Munson Medical Center.  This data is for informational purposes only and does not meet climatological standards.  This data set may include periods with missing data…particularly snowfall data from 1996-2001.

**Data for Gaylord is derived from a composite of observations taken at both Gaylord-Otsego County Airport and the cooperative observing station located near downtown Gaylord.    This data is for informational purposes only and does not meet climatological standards.  This data set may include periods with missing data and data that has been recorded from different observing points throughout history.