PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
 856 AM CDT MON AUG 1 2011
 
 ...ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND NEAR NORMAL PRECIPITATION OCCURRED
 AT NORTH PLATTE AND VALENTINE IN JULY...

 FOR NORTH PLATTE...THE AVERAGE DAILY MEAN TEMPERATURE FOR JUNE WAS
 78.2 DEGREES...WHICH WAS 3.9 DEGREES ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 74.3
 DEGREES. THE AVERAGE DAILY HIGH TEMPERATURE WAS 90.4 DEGREES WHICH
 WAS 2.0 DEGREES ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 88.4 DEGREES. THE AVERAGE DAILY
 LOW TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS 66.0 DEGREES WHICH WAS 5.8 DEGREES
 ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 60.2 DEGREES. NO DAILY TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE
 SET FOR THE MONTH OF JULY IN NORTH PLATTE.

 FOR VALENTINE...THE AVERAGE DAILY MEAN TEMPERATURE FOR JUNE WAS 78.3
 DEGREES...WHICH WAS 4.6 DEGREES ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 73.7 DEGREES.
 THE AVERAGE DAILY HIGH TEMPERATURE WAS 91.3 DEGREES...WHICH WAS 3.0
 DEGREES ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 88.3 DEGREES. THE AVERAGE DAILY LOW
 TEMPERATURE WAS 65.2 DEGREES...WHICH WAS 6.1 DEGREES ABOVE THE
 NORMAL OF 59.1 DEGREES. NO DAILY TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE SET FOR
 THE MONTH OF JULY AT VALENTINE.

 FOR NORTH PLATTE...PRECIPITATION FOR JUNE TOTALED 3.45
 INCHES...WHICH WAS 0.28 INCHES ABOVE THE NORMAL OF 3.17 INCHES. ONE
 DAILY PRECIPITATION RECORD WAS SET FOR THE MONTH AT NORTH PLATTE. ON
 THE SIXTH...1.95 INCHES OF RAIN FELL AT LEE BIRD FIELD. THIS BROKE
 THE RECORD OF 1.45 INCHES SET PREVIOUSLY IN 1949.

 AT VALENTINE...PRECIPITATION FOR JUNE TOTALED 3.08 INCHES WHICH WAS
 0.29 INCHES BELOW THE NORMAL OF 3.37 INCHES. NO DAILY PRECIPITATION
 RECORDS WERE SET DURING THE MONTH AT MILLER FIELD.

 THE 30 DAY OUTLOOK FROM THE CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER FOR AUGUST CALLS
 FOR EQUAL CHANCES OF ABOVE...BELOW OR NEAR NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND
 FOR ABOVE NORMAL PRECIPITATION.

  ...NORTH PLATTE AND VALENTINE PRECIPITATION TOTALS FOR THE 12
 PREVIOUS MONTHS...

 PLEASE NOTE...NEW NORMALS COVERING THE YEARS 1981 TO 2010 WILL BE
 INCORPORATED INTO THIS PRODUCT AS WELL AS ALL OTHER CLIMATE PRODUCTS
 ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE BEGINNING LATER TODAY. THIS WILL RESULT IN
 SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT DEPARTURES FROM NORMAL FOR TEMPERATURES AND
 PRECIPITATION...AS WELL AS HEATING AND COOLING DEGREE DAYS.

                           PRECIPITATION             DEPARTURE

                          LBF       VTN           LBF        VTN

 MONTH

 AUGUST 2010             2.35      2.01          0.20     -0.19
 SEPTEMBER 2010          1.29      0.89         -0.03     -0.72
 OCTOBER 2010            1.05      0.70         -0.19     -0.52
 NOVEMBER 2010           0.62      0.15         -0.14     -0.57
 DECEMBER 2010           0.44      0.86          0.04      0.53

 JANUARY 2011            1.05      0.74          0.66      0.44
 FEBRUARY 2011           0.68      0.87          0.17      0.39
 MARCH 2011              0.90      1.42         -0.34      0.31
 APRIL 2011              2.19      1.89          0.22     -0.08
 MAY 2011                5.69      3.87          2.35      0.67
 JUNE 2011               4.17      3.56          1.00      0.55
 JULY 2011               3.45      3.08          0.28     -0.29

 TOTALS                 23.88     20.04          4.22      0.52

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