...A MILD JULY IN VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA...

IN VIRGINIA... LYNCHBURG RECORDED THE 4TH COOLEST JULY ON RECORD...WITH A PERIOD OF RECORD THAT GOES BACK OVER 100 YEARS. IN FACT...SINCE ONE PRIOR YEAR WAS A TIE...THERE HAVE BEEN ONLY TWO MONTHS THAT WERE COOLER THAN JULY 2009.

WITH A SHORTER PERIOD OF RECORD...BLACKSBURG ALSO RECORDED ITS 4TH COOLEST JULY IN A LITTLE OVER A HALF CENTURY.

ROANOKE HAD THE 7TH COOLEST JULY ON RECORD BUT...SINCE SEVERAL PRIOR YEARS WERE TIED...ONLY 4 YEARS HAD A COOLER JULY THAN THIS YEAR.

DANVILLE HAD ITS 8TH COOLEST JULY...BUT ONLY 5 WERE COOLER SINCE 1948.

BLUEFIELD WEST VIRGINIA WAS WARMER THAN BLACKSBURG...AND ONLY MANAGED 18TH COOLEST.

IN ADDITION...THE NUMBER OF DAYS REACHING OR EXCEEDING 90 DEGREES WAS MUCH LOWER THAN NORMAL.

IN ROANOKE...11 DAYS IN JULY NORMALLY REACH 90 OR ABOVE. THIS YEAR THAT HAPPENED ONLY ONCE...ON THE 16TH. THE LAST TIME ROANOKE HAD ONLY ONE 90 DEGREE DAY WAS IN 1950.

IN LYNCHBURG...10 JULY DAYS WILL NORMALLY BE AT OR ABOVE 90...THIS YEAR THERE WERE ONLY 3.

DANVILLE HAD 9 DAYS AT OR ABOVE 90...THE AVERAGE NUMBER IS 16. IN A STATISTICALLY AVERAGE YEAR DANVILLE WILL HAVE ONE 100 DEGREE DAY IN JULY. THIS YEAR THE HIGHEST JULY TEMPERATURE WAS 94.

NEITHER BLACKSBURG VIRGINIA...NOR BLUEFIELD WEST VIRGINIA HAVE YET REACHED 90 THIS YEAR.