Blog: Dermot Cole
July could be driest and one of warmest in Fairbanks history
Published Tuesday, July 28, 2009
•With almost no precipitation this month, July could end up as the driest summer month in Fairbanks history and one of the two or three warmest months on record.
Dan Bross of KUAC-FM had a good story on this Tuesday. We've had 0.04 inches of rain in July, which is about 1.5 inches below normal.
"It looks like this will go down as not only the driest July on record, but the driest summer month on record in Fairbanks," Cary Freeman of the National Weather Service said in an interview with Bross. http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kuac/news.newsmain/article/1/0/1535504/KUAC.Local.News/Newscast.Tues.72809
For the year, we've had 3.93 inches of precipitation, which is about an inch below normal. In Phoenix, for comparison, they've had 2.3 inches this year.
In Valdez, they've had 22 inches this year, while Yakutat has had 51 inches, which is about 20 inches below normal.
•The Evergreen 747 Supertanker is to drop fire retardant and water on the Minto Flats South Fire Thursday, displaying its capability for those who fight wildfires in Alaska. The plane arrived in Fairbanks Tuesday. The plane holds about one-tenth as much water as it takes to fill Hamme Pool.
The company says it has spent $50 million developing this project and hopes to have a fleet of 747 tankers one day.
The company says: "With a payload of more than 20,000 gallons and a response time of 600 mph, it has more than eight times the drop capability and twice the speed of other federal air tankers currently fighting fires. The large capacity of the patented pressurized system is uniquely designed to attack urban interface wildland fires and fight multiple fires in one flight.
"The Evergreen Supertanker drops at higher altitudes, creating a significant safety buffer. This enables the aircraft to fight fires at night when wildfires are more vulnerable to firefighting tactics. With a drop pattern of three miles in length and a football field wide, the Supertanker will provide a predictable result to minimize costs and collateral damage."
No the record for fairbanks was 99 degrees in 1919.
And the minimom temp on record was in 1943 at 34 degrees for the 28 of july.
Average temperature for the entire month. It's not based on today's record.
Well the average temp for july in 1919 was in the 90's
Heck that was when the big fire in fairbanks hapened.
Corection the fire was in april. but july was the warmest and driest month on record.
coldarmyguy-
As Alaskaadam09 mentioned, I think you are looking at individual day records instead of monthly averages. The monthly average temperature in 1919 was 62.9.
The current record for warmest July is 68.4 in 1975.
Either way, it has been dry and hot.
Not to fear though, winter is around the corner!
149 shopping days until Christmas!
Google works wonders.
This is the first summer I have spent in Fairbanks in 22 yrs. I have been in the interior, but in the bush. This is the nicest summer I can remember in the 29 I have been in Alaska. Lovely weather, and truth be said, not that much smoke.
What you got to love about this area, you never know what the weather will be. Changes from year to year. Now all of you who think this is the norm, remember last year which was probably the wettest and coolest summer in a while. How many remember we can have warm winters, have been winters when it really never has gotten very cold. Winters when we have hardly had any snow or ones where we have had over 100 inches of snow. So lets see what they are predicting for this winter.
The Fair is coming up look for lots of rain then.....
Oh, Dermot!
You just HATE July. You're a July hater! July is a fabulous month; bright, warm and ambitious. It's been the best month we've had in, well, months!! You've had a vendetta against July for too long!
Driest month ever??!! What about the month of Obama!! A WAY drier month!!!!!!
WHY DOES THE NEWS MINER HAVE TO KEEP PUBLISHING STORIES ABOUT JULY. It's why I canceled my subscription and why you guys keep losing readers.
Hater...
Oh_ please your kids really get to you during the summer months don't they?
Figures.. last night I had a dream that we got a light dusting of snow. This whole warm summer thing is really getting to me. In just a few months it'll be dark and 50 below.
Love it.
Well, NotPc, haven't you noticed how Dermot NEVER reports on the dry July weather in the corrupt city of Chicago??? All he ever does is writes about ALASKA's dry July.
As part of the liberal media he simply IGNORES the dry weather in the midwest.
And you're a hater too for questioning my original post. Hater...
Not as dry as your column will become in August with Governor Palin gone now dermot.
Evergreen 747 bombing run on the Minto Flats South Fire on Thursday. Wonder what Chicken Little has to say about that?
Oh Please,
that is wonderful! I think NotPc is irritated on the other hand because he loves all the months, all 13 of them!
Remember the two day last December when it hit 50 above, for all those who are set on 50 below thinking. Have seen in the sixties when it was so warm one November we were wearing sweaters at Thanksgiving and hadn't even broke out the winter gear. Seen it go to 60 below at Christmas. Winds so hard in January that it registered 100 below with wind chill, even canceled the UAF registration that day. Always different in this area.
Oh_please you're too funny.....Lets see if Dermot can find a job for you.You can write from home and still watch the kids.
In fact you can go to Chicago,take the kids and report on the weather from there.
You wanna know what REALLY chaps my hide, NotPc? The fact that our troops are fighting and dying in Iraq to protect Dermot's right to badmouth July.
Frankly, I think Dermot and the rest of the July haters should just LEAVE if they don't like it here. Maybe a few COLD July days in some dirt-hole, third-world country in the Southern Hemisphere would make them appreciate what they have here.
Why do they hate July?
It could be and has been below in freezing in July.
I guess you can't please all the people all the time.
If it is hot they complain, if it is cold they complain, if it snows they complain.
Complaining is part of the nature of things human.
Oh_please I've been in those dirt holes in the jungle and sand hole in Iraq.It's really fun you should try it some time.
My guess is the July haters are soft on global warming and crime.
I understand they had to pull the ad out of the Newsminer of the Rush Limbaugh wooden statue supporting his stance that there is no thing as global warming - the statue burned up in the heat...
and sand hole in Iraq.It's really fun you should try it some time.
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Ummmmmmmm..... Wrong hemisphere, NotPc...
Will the honey produced this summer have a "smokey" flavor to it? Is that good? Or bad?
Oh_please are you saying they don't have sand in Iraq,or holes?
Oh_please: I hear July is about to quit its job. July says it "doesn't want to be a lame-duck month. sleepwalking through the rest of the year." And from the scuttlebutt I've been hearing, Dermot is just waiting to jump all over August, even though August is supposed to be, you know, respectable.
brianbb98:
I haven't had my annual snow dream yet
(too early) but the ash falling from
the sky is eery enough.
This is the best raspberry season I have ever seen in Alaska. This hot, dry weather is good for raspberries!
TAC .........July has been declared the month of the rubber duck.....Look for August to be the month of the Yellow Jacket.
AND...Oh_please I just checked It's currently 95 degrees in Baghdad (Southern Hemisphere and all)
(Southern Hemisphere and all)
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You slept through your geography classes, didn't you?
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