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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
723 PM EDT FRI SEP 1 2006
 
...PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...
 
...A WARM WET SUMMER FOR HARRISBURG...

FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW AVERAGE TEMPERATURES FOR THE
METEOROLOGICAL SUMMER...JUNE THROUGH AUGUST...AVERAGED ABOVE
NORMAL IN HARRISBURG. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE THREE MONTH
PERIOD WAS 75.2 WHICH WAS 1.7 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. WHILE IT WAS
ABOVE NORMAL...IT DID NOT MANAGE TO CRACK THE TOP FIVE WARMEST
SUMMERS...ENDING UP AS JUST THE 14TH WARMEST IN HISTORY. THE
WARMEST SUMMER IN THE BOOKS WAS BACK IN 1966 WHEN THE AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE WAS 77.6 FOR THE SUMMER. THAT WAS 4.1 DEGREES ABOVE
NORMAL. IT MIGHT BE NOTED THAT LAST SUMMER ENDED UP BEING THE 3RD
WARMEST SUMMER IN HISTORY. ALSO...DESPITE BEING WARMER THAN
NORMAL THIS YEAR...NO DAILY HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE SET
FROM JUNE THROUGH AUGUST.

IN A NORMAL SUMMER THE WARMTH CAN SOMETIMES BE GAUGED BY HOW MANY
TIMES THE MERCURY TOPS 90 ON A GIVEN DAY. IN THE CAPITAL CITY THE
AVERAGE SUMMER SEES ABOUT 16 DAYS WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES 90 OR
ABOVE. THIS PAST SUMMER WAS JUST A BIT BELOW NORMAL IN THAT REGARD
WITH ONLY 14 DAYS SEEING 90 DEGREE READINGS.
 
FIVE WARMEST SUMMERS
 
 77.6 DEG  1966
 76.8 DEG  1999
 76.6 DEG  2005
 76.4 DEG  1991
 76.1 DEG  1900
 76.1 DEG  1943
 
FIVE COLDEST SUMMERS 
 
 69.2 DEG 1903 
 69.4 DEG 1927 
 70.0 DEG 1982
 70.7 DEG 1907 
 70.9 DEG 1946
 
PRECIPITATION FOR THE SUMMER WAS 15.16 INCHES...WHICH WAS 4.72
INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS WAS MAINLY COURTESY OF A WET JUNE AND
JULY. AUGUST SAW JUST 1.41 INCHES OF RAIN WHICH PLACED 12TH ON THE
LIST FOR DRIEST AUGUSTS. OVERALL HOWEVER IT ENDED UP BEING THE
24TH WETTEST SUMMER IN THE HISTORY BOOKS.
 
DURING AN AVERAGE SUMMER...MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION CAN BE
EXPECTED TO FALL ON ABOUT 32 DAYS. THIS SUMMER WAS VERY AVERAGE
WITH 32 DAYS SEEING SOME RAINFALL.
 
FIVE WETTEST SUMMERS
  
 23.33" 1972 
 19.36" 2004 
 18.77" 1933 
 18.59" 2003
 18.21" 1937
 
FIVE DRIEST SUMMERS
 
 2.41"  1966
 5.60"  1980
 5.64"  1901
 5.93"  1909
 5.96"  1968
 
 
 
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LA CORTE