Were you wondering throughout the month of July when summer was going to start? If you thought July was cold, it wasn’t your imagination. Minnesota’s Arrowhead region was between four and six degrees below normal during July, with one small area averaging eight degrees below normal.
The average temperature across the contiguous United States was below the longterm average, based on records going back to 1895, according to a preliminary analysis by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
In July, daily lows that were low and daily highs that were low made records across a nine-state region that included Minnesota. Minnesota and Tennessee both experienced their third coolest July on record.
Death Valley, California, on the other hand, was toasty, with a new monthly average maximum temperature of 121.3 degrees Fahrenheit. Twenty-two days in July brought temperatures of 120 degrees or hotter, beating the old record of 19 days.
While precipitation was near normal for the contiguous United States, precipitation in Minnesota was below average. Minnesota’s July was the 18th driest in the last 115 years of weather data.
Joseph and Mary Routh report Hovland weather data to the Cook County News- Herald each week. During the month of July, the average daily low was 50 degrees and the average daily high was 70 degrees. The month’s highest temperature of 81 degrees was recorded on July 13. Thelowest temperature, recorded July 7, was 40.
Dave Clutter, who reports weather from Poplar Lake, reported a July low of 39 on July 7 and a high of just under 76 degrees on July 10.
Some locals started dreading next winter as soon as they recovered from last winter (although others still haven’t recovered). Some would like to be in warmer places when cold winds start to blow in October or when the snow is still falling at the end of April.
But where could anyone go where the summers would be as sweet and precious as they are in Cook County, Minnesota?
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