NWS Indianapolis Public Information Statement 09:54 AM EDT Wed Jul 01 2009

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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1054 AM EDT WED JUL 1 2009 

...JUNE 2009 WAS ANOTHER WARM AND WET MONTH IN INDIANAPOLIS...

JUNE 2009 WAS YET ANOTHER MONTH WITH WELL ABOVE NORMAL RAINFALL AND 
TEMPERATURES IN INDIANAPOLIS.

THE MONTH BEGAN FIRST WITH A FEW DAYS OF VERY WARM WEATHER ON THE 
1ST AND 2ND...WHICH THEN GAVE WAY TO MUCH COOLER THAN NORMAL WEATHER 
WITH HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S AND LOW 70S AND LOWS ONLY IN THE UPPER 
40S AND LOW 50S. THE COOLEST DAY OF THE STRETCH CAME ON THE 4TH WITH 
AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE BELOW NORMAL BY 10 DEGREES. THIS WAS THEN 
FOLLOWED BY A PROLONGED STRETCH OF NEAR TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL 
TEMPERATURES FOR MOST OF THE MONTH. THE PERIOD FROM THE 
7TH THROUGH THE 28TH WAS AT OR ABOVE NORMAL EVERY DAY EXCEPT THE 
12TH AND 16TH. THE WARMTH PEAKED ON THE 25TH WITH HIGHS IN THE LOW 
TO MID 90S AND AN AVERAGE DAILY TEMPERATUE ABOVE NORMAL BY 9 
DEGREES. 

THE MONTH SAW THE FIRST 90 DEGREE READING OF THE SUMMER TO 
INDIANAPOLIS WITH A HIGH OF 91 ON THE 19TH. THIS IS CLOSE TO NORMAL 
FOR THE FIRST DAY IN THE 90S. THE MONTH FEATURED 5 DAYS IN THE 90S 
AND INCLUDED A STRETCH OF 4 CONSECUTIVE DAYS IN THE 90S FROM THE 
23RD THROUGH 26TH. A NORMAL JUNE EXPERIENCES 3 DAYS IN THE 90S AND 
LAST YEAR SAW JUST ONE DAY IN THE 90S. 

19 DAYS THIS MONTH HAD ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURE AND 8 HAD 
TEMPERATURES BELOW NORMAL. THREE DAYS WERE EXACTLY NORMAL. THE 
WARMEST READING THIS MONTH WAS 93 DEGREES ON JUNE 24TH AND THE 
COLDEST TEMPERATURE WAS 47 DEGREES ON THE 5TH. 

JUNE FINISHED WITH AN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 73.4 DEGREES WHICH WAS 
ABOVE NORMAL BY 1.7 DEGREE. 

IT WAS A TALE OF TWO WEATHER PATTERNS THIS MONTH REGARDING RAINFALL. 
INITALLY THE PATTERN FROM MAY OF VERY WET WEATHER CONTINUED. THIS 
BROUGHT ABUNDANT RAINFALL TO INDIANAPOLIS DURING THE FIRST HALF OF 
THE MONTH WITH 5.91 INCHES FALLING IN THE FIRST 18 DAYS. THE 
ATMOSPHERIC FAUCET QUICKLY SHUT DOWN AS JUST 0.69 INCHES OF RAIN WAS 
MEASURED IN THE FINAL 12 DAYS OF THE MONTH AS THE WEATHER PATTERN 
TURNED SUNNY AND HOT. 

THE MONTHLY TOTAL OF 6.60 INCHES EXCEEDED THE NORMAL VALUE BY 2.47 
INCHES. JUNE 2009 GOES INTO THE RECORD BOOK AS THE 15TH WETTEST. 
LAST YEAR...THE 7TH WETTEST JUNE ON RECORD...HAD 8.00 INCHES OF 
RAINFALL. MAY AND JUNE OF THIS YEAR HAVE COMBINED TO DROP 13.29 
INCHES OF RAIN IN INDIANAPOLIS...MAKING THIS THE 10TH WETTEST MAY 
AND JUNE COMBINED ON RECORD. LAST YEAR/S MAY TO JUNE PERIOD HAD ONLY 
0.25 INCHES MORE RAIN THAN THIS YEAR.

MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION FELL ON 15 DAYS THIS MONTH...AND 4 DAYS SAW 
MORE THAN A HALF INCH OF PRECIPITATION. SEVERAL ROUNDS OF TORRENTIAL 
DOWNPOURS ON THE 11TH OF THE MONTH BROUGHT 2.90 INCHES OF RAIN TO 
THE INDIANAPOLIS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. THIS BROKE THE DAILY 
PRECIPITATION RECORD. THE PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 1.41 INCHES SET BACK 
IN 1938.

MOST OF THE SEVERE WEATHER THIS MONTH DID NOT IMPACT THE CITY OF 
INDIANAPOLIS. WINDS OF 55 TO 60 MPH WERE RECORDED ON THE 19TH OF THE 
MONTH AND SOME MINOR TREE DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED. 

THE PEAK WIND GUST THIS MONTH WAS 56 MPH FROM THE WEST ON THE 
19TH. THUNDER WAS REPORTED ON 12 DAYS THIS MONTH...AND FOG ON 14 
DAYS. NO DENSE FOG WAS OBSERVED AT THE AIRPORT THIS MONTH. 60 
PERCENT OF OF POSSIBLE SUNSHINE WAS RECORDED THIS JUNE.

PRECIPITATION AND TEMPERATURE RECORDS AT INDIANAPOLIS BEGAN IN 1871.