NWS Dallas/Fort Worth Public/Media Guide - Monthly Climate Summary Frame

<body bgcolor="#ffffff" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0"> <table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0"> <tr bgcolor="#cccccc"> <td width="10"> </td> <td align="left">National Weather Service</td> <td align="right">Dallas/Fort Worth</td> <td width="10"> </td> </tr> </table> <div align="center"><table width="90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tr><td><div align="center"><br><h3>Monthly Climate Summary</h3> (CLMFTW (ACT), CXUS54)</div><br><br> The monthly climate summary provides an overview of the previous month's weather. Two summaries are issued, generally on the first day of the current month; one for DFW and the other for Waco. <h4>Example</h4> <div align="center"><table width="430" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="1" bgcolor="#eaeaea"> <tr> <td><pre> CXUS54 KFWD 010641 CLMFTW DALLAS/FT WORTH MONTHLY CLIMATIC SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 2000 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 141 AM CDT FRI SEP 01 2000 TEMPERATURE DATA AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE..... 101.9 DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL +5.7 AVERAGE LOW TEMPERATURE..... 78.5 DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL +4.9 AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE.. 90.2 DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL +5.3 HIGHEST...................... 108 ON THE 31ST. LOWEST....................... 73 ON THE 1ST & 11TH. NUMBER OF DAYS WITH- MAX 32 DEGREES OR BELOW 0 MAX 90 DEGREES OR ABOVE 31 MIN 32 DEGREES OR BELOW 0 MIN 0 DEGREES OR BELOW 0 HEATING DEGREE DAYS (BASED ON 65 DEGREES) TOTAL THIS MONTH 0 DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL 0 SEASONAL TOTAL 0 DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL 0 COOLING DEGREE DAYS (BASED ON 65 DEGREES) TOTAL THIS MONTH 787 DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL +170 SEASONAL TOTAL 2496 DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL +400 PRECIPITATION DATA TOTAL FOR THE MONTH...... 0.00 INCHES ... -2.21 TOTAL FOR THE YEAR....... 21.19 INCHES ... -1.47 GREATEST IN 24 HOURS..... 0.00 INCHES SNOWFALL, ICE PELLETS INCHES DATE TOTAL FOR THE MONTH GREATEST IN 24 HOURS GREATEST DEPTH ON GROUND PRESSURE DATA HIGHEST SEA-LEVEL PRESSURE 30.16 INCHES ON THE 23RD. LOWEST SEA-LEVEL PRESSURE 29.79 INCHES ON THE 31ST. WEATHER NUMBER OF DAYS - WITH 0.01 INCH OR MORE PRECIP 0 WITH 0.10 INCH OR MORE PRECIP 0 WITH 0.50 INCH OR MORE PRECIP 0 WITH 1.00 INCH OR MORE PRECIP 0 ...RECORDS...TEMPERATURES... A NEW RECORD HIGHEST LOW...82 DEGREES...WAS SET ON THE 7TH...OLD RECORD ... 81 DEGREES ...SET IN 1951 AND TIED IN 1999. THE RECORD HIGHEST LOW...80 DEGREES...WAS TIED ON THE 15TH...OLD RECORD PREVIOUSLY SET IN 1954 AND TIED IN 1993. A NEW RECORD HIGHEST LOW...83 DEGREES...WAS SET ON THE 18TH...OLD RECORD ....81 DEGREES...PREVIOUSLY SET IN 1952 AND TIED IN 1956. THE RECORD HIGHEST LOW...80 DEGREES...WAS TIED ON THE 28TH...OLD RECORD PREVIOUSLY SET IN 1943 AND TIED IN 1984. THE RECORD HIGH...106 DEGREES...WAS TIED ON THE 30TH...OLD RECORD PREVIOUSLY SET IN 1954. A NEW RECORD HIGH WAS SET ON THE 31ST...108 DEGREES...OLD RECORD... 106 DEGREES ...PREVIOUSLY SET IN 1990. THE AVERAGE DAILY TEMPERATURE OF 90.2 DEGREES IS THE 3RD WARMEST AUGUST ON RECORD. THE AVERAGE DAILY HIGH OF 101.9 DEGREES IS THE 3RD WARMEST ON RECORD...AND THE AVERAGE DAILY LOW OF 78.5 DEGREES IS ALSO THE 3RD WARMEST ON RECORD. THERE WERE 27 "TRIPLE DIGIT" DAYS DURING THE MONTH...WHICH TIES AUGUST OF 1952 FOR THE MOST "100" DEGREE OR HIGHER DAYS IN A MONTH. THERE HAVE BEEN 39 DAYS SO FAR THIS YEAR WITH A TEMPERATURE OF 100 DEGREES OR HIGHER. THIS CURRENTLY RANKS 7TH IN THE RECORD BOOK. THE LONGEST CONSECUTIVE STRING OF "TRIPLE DIGIT" DAYS SO FAR THIS SUMMER IS TEN (10) . ...RECORDS...PRECIPITATION... THIS IS THE FIRST AUGUST SINCE RECORDS WERE KEPT (1898) WITH NO MEASURABLE RAINFALL. THERE HAVE BEEN 6 OTHER YEARS IN WHICH ONLY A "TRACE" WAS RECORDED. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT NO MEASURABLE RAINFALL HAS BEEN RECORDED IN 2 CONSECUTIVE MONTHS...JULY = TRACE, AUGUST = 0. AUGUST 31ST WAS THE 62ND CONSECUTIVE DAY WITHOUT MEASURABLE RAINFALL... AND EACH ADDITIONAL DAY ADDS TO THE CURRENT RECORD STRING. AUGUST 2000 RAINFALL OF 0.00 INCHES...TIES NOV 1903 AND JULY 1993 AS THE DRIEST MONTHS ON RECORD. REMARKS: THE PEAK WIND FOR THE MONTH WAS 31 (MPH)...FROM THE SOUTH... ...ON THE 3RD...AND WAS CAUSED BY A STRONG PRESSURE GRADIENT FORMED AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT WHICH STALLED IN OKLAHOMA. THUNDER WAS NOT RECORDED DURING THE MONTH AT THE DFW AIRPORT. THE MONTHLY TOTAL OF 0.00 RAINFALL HAS NOW DROPPED THE YEARLY EXCESS TO A NEGATIVE 1.47 INCHES FOR THIS TIME OF THE YEAR. 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