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What a summer we have had...
June started off warm, but frequent thunderstorms keeped up pretty wet. On June 16 a powerful weather system called a "derecho" surged from west to east across Kentucky. Like all derechoes, this line of strong storms generated damaging winds along its path, and caused quite a bit of damage throughout southern Kentucky. The upper level weather pattern (jet stream) changed in late June leaving us in a cool weather pattern for the rest of the summer.
July 2009 will probably be remembered as the month without a summer... It was ther first time sinc official records begin in 1872 that Louisville went the intire July without hitting 90 degrees. Making this July one of the coolest on record.
The cool weather continued into August, but we did manage to hit the 90s five times. August 2009 will be remembered for it's record flooding on the 4th with some areas in west Louisville recieving about 7 inches in less than two hours!! Leaving parts of the city under several feet of water.
2009 Summer Quick Facts
- Average Temperature: 74.9 (-1.6 departure)
- Rainfall: 21.12" (+9.65" departure)
- 3rd Wettest summer on record
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