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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
743 PM EDT FRI SEP 1 2006

...PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...

...A WARM WET SUMMER FOR WILLIAMSPORT...

FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW AVERAGE TEMPERATURES FOR THE
METEOROLOGICAL SUMMER...JUNE THROUGH AUGUST...AVERAGED ABOVE
NORMAL IN WILLIAMSPORT. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE THREE MONTH
PERIOD WAS 72.1 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 28TH WARMEST IN HISTORY. THE
WARMEST SUMMER IN THE BOOKS WAS BACK IN 1901 WHEN THE AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE WAS 75.0 FOR THE SUMMER. THAT WAS 4.6 DEGREES ABOVE
NORMAL. 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 WILLIAMSPORT THE
AVERAGE SUMMER SEES ABOUT 13 DAYS WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES 90 OR
ABOVE. THIS PAST SUMMER WAS JUST A BIT BELOW NORMAL IN THAT REGARD
WITH ONLY 10 DAYS SEEING 90 DEGREE READINGS.

FIVE WARMEST SUMMERS

 75.0 DEG  1901
 74.2 DEG  1949
 74.2 DEG  1900
 74.1 DEG  1955
 74.0 DEG  1995
 73.9 DEG  2005
 
FIVE COLDEST SUMMERS 
 
 67.4 DEG  1965
 67.4 DEG  1982
 67.5 DEG  1927
 67.6 DEG  1903
 68.1 DEG  1897
 68.3 DEG  1946
 
PRECIPITATION FOR THE SUMMER WAS 16.58 INCHES...WHICH WAS 4.67 INCHES
ABOVE NORMAL. THIS WAS GOOD ENOUGH TO TIE FOR THE 5TH WETTEST
SUMMER IN HISTORY.
 
DURING AN AVERAGE SUMMER...MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION CAN BE
EXPECTED TO FALL ON ABOUT 34 DAYS. THIS SUMMER WAS A LITTLE ABOVE
AVERAGE WITH 36 DAYS SEEING SOME RAINFALL.
 
FIVE WETTEST SUMMERS
  
 22.30" 1972
 20.72" 1928
 16.72" 1920
 16.62" 1903
 16.58" 2003
 16.58" 2006
 
FIVE DRIEST SUMMERS
 
 6.00"  1909
 6.15"  1929
 6.36"  1995
 6.51"  1953
 6.83"  1951
 
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LA CORTE