#VernonBC Weather Summary - 2023 Aug 🧵
Another month of much warmer (3.0°C) and drier (7%!) than climate normals. The climatological summer (Jun-Aug) averaged 3.1°C warmer and precipitation is 15% of normal (!), 3nd warmest and 2nd driest in over a century (2017 was drier).
#VernonBC August 2023 Temperature Summary
➡️Average: 21.8°C (Normal: 18.8°C)
➡️Maximum: 38.1°C (Normal: 26.1°C; Extreme: 37.8°C)
➡️Minimum: 9.4°C (Normal: 11.3 °C; Extreme: -1.7°C)
Mean temperature was 3.0°C warmer than normal. 2023 was the 3rd warmest on record
#VernonBC Summer Heat Index: Cumulative Cooling Degree-days (A heat exposure metric summing daily average T>18°C).
Vernon had it's fourth highest CCDD Aug since 1900. Fortunately the federal Heat Warning criteria were never exceeded during the month (came close, twice).
#VernonBC Precipitation
August's precipitation was well below normal, as has been the case every month this year.
➡️Total Precipitation for August was only 3 mm.
This is 7% of the 1981-2010 normal (42.3 mm), the fifth driest back to 1900.
#VernonBC 2023 Climate Variance
Monthly temperature (l) and precip (r) differences compared to 1981-2010 climate normal.
➡️Year to date precipitation is 115.9 mm, 36.0% of the normal 279 mm.
➡️Meteorological Summer totals are 21.9 mm, only 15% of the 147 mm rain we normally get!
Credit: station actual, normal, and almanac data are from , unless otherwise noted.
📷 from me.climate.weather.gc.ca
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