If you found yourself muttering about the chilly weather last month, and glad that summer finally feels like it, you may be interested to know that numbers from the meteorologists back up your suspicion that this was a ridiculously cool July.
Meteorologists say the upper Midwest saw record setting cool weather last month.
Kevin Sullivan is a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Gaylord.
He has some numbers to ponder.
"We have a number of sites, Traverse City for instance, their mean temperature for the month of July is 64.1 degrees, and they actually were 5 and a half degrees below normal for the month of July. Houghton Lake had their top coolest July since 1917. Their average temperature for the month was 62 degrees which is 4.7 degrees below normal. And Gaylord much the same, it was their coldest summer on record since 1950, they were 61.3 degrees and that's 6.2 below average."
Sullivan says the next couple of weeks show temperatures in the normal range. With the heat perhaps extending into September
Meteorologists say the upper Midwest saw record setting cool weather last month.
Kevin Sullivan is a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Gaylord.
He has some numbers to ponder.
"We have a number of sites, Traverse City for instance, their mean temperature for the month of July is 64.1 degrees, and they actually were 5 and a half degrees below normal for the month of July. Houghton Lake had their top coolest July since 1917. Their average temperature for the month was 62 degrees which is 4.7 degrees below normal. And Gaylord much the same, it was their coldest summer on record since 1950, they were 61.3 degrees and that's 6.2 below average."
Sullivan says the next couple of weeks show temperatures in the normal range. With the heat perhaps extending into September
