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So what will July and August send our way?
San Marcos — What will August bring? For that matter, what about July?
That’s the question longtime Central Texas weatherman Troy Kimmel posed on Tuesday.
According to the National Weather Service, the average high for June was 98.2 degrees.
The same agency says the 30-year projected high for San Marcos in June is 91.5. Kimmel said the 30-year projected average high temperature for June in San Marcos is 91.5.
“That’s pretty remarkable,” he said of the seven-degree difference. “That’s a very warm month.”
San Marcos saw temperatures hit 100 degrees or more 14 days out of June’s 30. On the 25th and 29th, the mercury climbed to 106. Nighttime lows during June averaged 73.1 degrees.
The century mark was first attained on June 13.
The highest temperature ever recorded in June was 109 degrees in 1998.
Kimmel said last month was the second warmest June in Austin since record keeping began in 1856. “Looking at what we’re seeing in San Marcos we can certainly think it’s one of the warmest Junes ever,” he said.
Last year there were only nine days in June that the temperature reached 100 or more, with that month’s hottest day, June 19, coming in at 102. In June 2007 the highest temperature was 93 degrees.
As for the future, Kimmel noted that August is traditionally the hottest month of the year in Central Texas, with a 30-year average high of 95.4 in San Marcos. The 30-year average high for July is 95.1.
“August is usually our warmest month which lends itself for the question, if things were as bad as they were in June, how bad is it going to be in July and August? That’s the question at this point.”
Back to the records, the highest temperature recorded in July in San Marcos was 110 in 1954; for August, it’s 111 in 1917.
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