July weather

By now everyone in Cedar Rapids has heard that July was the coldest July ever.

Here is the new top 5:

1. 2009: 66.2
2. 2004: 69.9
3. 1992: 70.0
4. 1962: 70.2
5. 1971: 70.5

Notice how the previous cold years are bunched together... only tenths of a degree apart. Then 2009 shattered the record by 3.7 degrees. That's amazing.

Also amazing is that for five days the high did not reach 70 and the average high in CR was only 76.

It was a cool July in Al Ain as well. The average high was 114.