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By: MICHELLE WILLARD, Post Staff Writer

Posted: Monday, August 3, 2009 1:38 pm

July was the fourth coolest on record in Nashville and the coolest in more than 40 years.

“A persistent upper-level trough kept temperatures cooler than normal and rainfall above normal during the month of July across Middle Tennessee,” said Bobby Boyd, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Nashville.

Overall, July averaged 75.7 degrees at the Nashville Airport, which is 3.4 degrees below normal. In Murfreesboro, the average temperature from the month was 76, 2 degrees below normal.

The highest temperature for the month in Nashville was 92 degrees on July 15. Murfreesboro’s hottest days in July were the 5th and 16th, which both recorded highs of 92 degrees.

“There were only four days during the month of July in which the temperature reached or exceeded the 90 degree mark,” Boyd said. “This ties the all time record also set in 1967 for the fewest days with 90 degrees and above during the month of July.”

The cool temperatures carried over into the nights also with Nashville recording a coolest temperature of 57 degrees July 19 and Murfreesboro marked down 57 degrees the night of July 2.

The coolest July temperature ever recorded in Nashville is 51 degrees set in 1947. In total there were six lowest daily temperature records either tied or broken during the month.

The mid-state in general received abundant rainfall during the month of July, which ranged from 6 inches around Nashville to more than 14 inches at Livingston to nearly 18 inches at Waynesboro.

The ‘Boro recorded 4.70 inches of rain through the month, which is around normal for this time of year.

Nashville saw more rain totaling 6.03 inches, which is 2.26 inches above normal.

“This was the wettest July in Nashville since 1984 and the 22nd wettest out of the last 138 years that records have been kept,” Boyd said.

On the Fourth of July, a round of severe thunderstorms moved across the mid-state during the early evening and through the early morning hours of July 5.
An EF-0 tornado destroyed a barn and damaged a grain silo in eastern Warren County.

The system also produced an EF-1 tornado in northeastern Sumner County, which had a 3-mile long path and lightly damaged some homes.

Michelle Willard can be contacted at 615-869-0816 or mwillard@murfreesboropost.com.

Tagged under Bobby Boyd, Weather

Member Opinions:

By: SocEtTuem on 8/3/09
Must be global warming.

By: Who_Cares on 8/3/09
Ask AL to explain this ...lol

By: archosignis on 8/4/09
I sure enjoyed it!!

By: Farmall on 8/4/09
This is the reason ole Al changed the name from Global Warming to Climate Change. To handle situations like this. If the weather deviates from the average just one little bit then its the work of the evil mankind.