cold july... El Nino, where are you?

Im still waiting for el nino to show up. Here is our climate plot for July 2009 from the national weather service. Our July average temp is 65.3 putting us 4.8 below normal. Our high this month has been 82, which we hit a couple of times.

















in any case, at least we are not alone. From weather underground...

Unusually cool July for Central Park in NYC...

For some perspective... here are the top ten coolest julys on record
since 1869 for Central Park in New York city:

coolest
avg. Temp. Year
70.7 1888
71.9 1884
72.1 1914
72.3 2000/1871
72.4 1891
72.6 1895
72.8 1902/1869
72.9 1956
73.1 1890
73.2 2001


Due to the unusually cool conditions thus far in July... here are
some interesting facts to note...

With an average daily temperature of 71.7... currently running 4.6
degrees below normal... this July is on track for the 2nd coolest
on record. Below average temperatures have occurred on 20 out of
22 days... with the other two days being normal. There have been
zero above normal days.

Central Park has only reached 85 degrees once this month... on the
17th... and has not yet reached 90 degrees this Summer. If this
continues through the end of the month... it will only be the
second time since 1869 that 90 degrees was not reached in June or
July. The only other time this occurred was 1996.