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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
255 PM CDT SUN SEP 1 2002
 
...METEOROLOGICAL SUMMER (JUNE THROUGH AUGUST) WAS DRY HERE IN PADUCAH...

THE PERIOD OF JUNE THROUGH AUGUST (METEOROLOGICAL SUMMER), WAS THE 
SECOND DRIEST PERIOD ON RECORD HERE AT BARKLEY REGIONAL AIRPORT.  
TOTAL PRECIPITATION FOR THIS PERIOD MEASURED 4.71 INCHES.  NORMAL 
PRECIPITATION FOR THIS TIME PERIOD SHOULD HAVE BEEN 11.95 INCHES OF 
PRECIPITATION.  THIS WAS 7.24 INCHES BELOW NORMAL.  THE DRIEST 
PERIOD ON RECORD...WAS RECORDED IN 1988 WHEN ONLY 4.54 INCHES OF 
PRECIPITATION WAS RECORDED.  IN CONTRAST...THE WETTEST PERIOD (JUNE 
THROUGH AUGUST) EVER RECORDED HERE IN PADUCAH... WAS 22.15 INCHES OF 
PRECIPITATION...WHICH OCCURRED ONLY 4 YEARS AGO IN 1998.  

AS FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST...THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH 
WAS 79.4 DEGREES... WHICH IS THE 6TH WARMEST ON RECORD.  THE WARMEST 
AUGUST ON RECORD WAS 82.9 DEGREES THAT WAS SET BACK IN 1980.

AS FOR PRECIPITATION...THE 1.72 INCHES RECORDED HERE IN PADUCAH WAS 
THE NINTH DRIEST RECORDED.  THE DRIEST AUGUST EVER RECORDED WAS 0.11 
INCHES OF PRECIPITATION THAT WAS MEASURED BACK IN 1996.  IN 
CONTRAST...THE WETTEST AUGUST ON RECORD HERE AT PADUCAH WAS BACK IN 
1977 WHEN 7.24 INCHES OF WAS RECORDED.

MJN