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July Was Very Hot, But Also Very Rainy

July Was Very Hot, But Also Very Rainy
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By National Weather Service
Aug. 03, 2020 | PADUCAH
By National Weather Service Aug. 03, 2020 | 09:07 AM | PADUCAH
You would think a very wet month would tend to be cloudy and thus cooler, but July in western Kentucky stayed hot in spite of lots of rain.

Totals compiled by the National Weather Service office at Barkley Field put last month as the 15th-hottest ever in Paducah. Temperatures for the month finished above normal by around 2 to 3 degrees.

Paducah observed 26 days reaching 90 degrees, including 19 straight from July 3-21. This was the longest streak of consecutive days in the 90s since we had 29 straight back in 2012.

Oppressive humidity was a common occurrence, with heat index readings reaching around 100  for 17 days in Paducah.

Paducah’s coldest high temperature in July was 86 degrees. There have only been two other Julys on record where high temperatures reached or exceeded 86 every single day of the month; those happened in 1993 and 1942.

In a month when rainfall averages 3 to 4 inches, most of the region finished with 4 to 8 inches. There were drastic differences within individual counties. In McCracken County, the Paducah airport on the west side of town received only 4.22 inches, while a weather station in Reidland picked up 9.96 inches.

Some localized higher totals of up to 10 to 11 inches were observed as well. The highest observing site in our area was a CoCoRaHS station near Cadiz that received 11.72 inches for the month.

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