000 NOUS42 KTAE 010653 PNSTAE FLZ017-030700- PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 253 AM EDT SAT SEP 1 2007 ...AUGUST 2007 WAS THE WARMEST AUGUST ON RECORD FOR TALLAHASSEE... ...THIRD WARMEST MONTH EVER RECORDED FOR TALLAHASSEE... THE AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE FOR AUGUST AT TALLAHASSEE WAS 84.9 DEGREES WHICH WAS 2.8 ABOVE NORMAL AND MAKES IT THE WARMEST AUGUST ON RECORD AND THE 3RD WARMEST MONTH EVER FOR TALLAHASSEE. THE PREVIOUS WARMEST AUGUST WAS IN 1999 WITH A MONTHLY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF 84.2 DEGREES. THE ONLY OTHER MONTHS WARMER THAN THIS PAST MONTH WERE JULY 1932 WITH A MONTHLY AVERAGE OF 85.5 DEGREES AND JUNE 1998 WITH AN AVERAGE OF 85.3 DEGREES. WHAT MAKES THIS RECORD BREAKING AUGUST EVEN MORE IMPRESSIVE IS THAT THE MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE NEVER REACHED THE CENTURY MARK. THE MAX TEMPERATURE REACHED OR EXCEEDED 100 DEGREES ON 7 DAYS IN JULY 1932 AND 12 DAYS IN JUNE OF 1998. THE HIGHEST TEMPERATURE FOR AUGUST 2007 WAS 99 DEGREES ON THE 22ND... 15TH...14TH...10TH AND 9TH AND THE LOWEST WAS 72 DEGREES ON THE 18TH. THE FOLLOWING ARE OTHER TEMPERATURE RECORDS THAT WERE TIED OR BROKEN DURING THE MONTH. HIGHEST DAILY MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE: AUG 2007 PREVIOUS RECORD 9TH 99 98 2000 10TH 99 98 1987 11TH 97 97 1925 14TH 99 98 1995 HIGHEST DAILY MINIMUM TEMPERATURE: AUG 2007 PREVIOUS RECORD 7TH 78 77 2002 11TH 76 76 1903 15TH 78 76 1995,1940,1902 20TH 78 77 2005,1909 23RD 77 77 2005 HIGHEST DAILY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE: AUG 2007 PREVIOUS RECORD 6TH 87.0 86.5 1954,1953 7TH 87.5 87.0 1954 9TH 87.0 85.5 1987,1935 10TH 87.5 87.5 1987 11TH 86.5 86.0 1925 14TH 87.0 86.0 1948 22ND 87.0 86.5 1980 24TH 86.0 86.0 1993,1968,1903 AUGUST WAS WETTER THAN NORMAL WITH 8.05 INCHES OF RAIN MEASURED AT THE TALLAHASSEE REGIONAL AIRPORT WHICH WAS 1.02 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL. THE GREATEST AMOUNT IN A 24-HOUR PERIOD WAS 3.09 INCHES ON THE 9TH WHICH ESTABLISHED A NEW DAILY MAXIMUM RAINFALL RECORD FOR THAT DAY. THE PREVIOUS RECORD FOR THE 9TH WAS 1.95 INCHES IN 1966. THERE WERE 11 DAYS IN THE MONTH WITH MEASURABLE RAINFALL WHICH WAS 3 BELOW NORMAL. THERE WERE 16 DAYS WITH THUNDER AT THE AIRPORT. THE AIRPORT REPORTED A PEAK WIND GUST OF 52 MPH FROM THE WEST ON THE 9TH. THE OUTLOOK FOR SEPTEMBER ISSUED BY THE CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER CALLS FOR AN EQUAL CHANCE OF EXPERIENCING BELOW...AVERAGE OR ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND AN ENHANCED CHANCE FOR ABOVE NORMAL RAINFALL. THE AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE FOR SEPTEMBER IS 78.9 DEGREES AND NORMAL RAINFALL IS 5.01 INCHES. ACCORDING TO THE CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER THERE IS A 43% CHANCE THAT THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE 3-MONTH PERIOD FROM SEPTEMBER THROUGH NOVEMBER WILL BE ABOVE NORMAL (> 69.4 DEGREES)...A 33% CHANCE NEAR NORMAL (67.6 - 69.4) AND A 24% CHANCE BELOW NORMAL (< 67.6). THERE ARE NO 3-MONTH PRECIPITATION OUTLOOKS FOR SPECIFIC POINT LOCATIONS AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...THE GENERALIZED OUTLOOK FOR THE TALLAHASSEE AREA CALLS FOR AN ENHANCED CHANCE OF EXPERIENCING ABOVE NORMAL RAINFALL. THE NORMAL 3-MONTH RAINFALL FOR TALLAHASSEE IS 12.12 INCHES. THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE CAN BE ACCESSED TO RECEIVE 3-MONTH AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FORECASTS FOR SEVERAL OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE LOCAL TRI-STATE REGION: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/CLIMATE/CALENDAR_OUTLOOK.PHP?WFO=TAE $$ BARRY