August 2007 Second Warmest on Record for the United States
You may have expected it, but now the preliminary figures from the National Climactic Data Center are in, and they confirm that August 2007 was the second warmest on record for the country, and the warmest for Georgia and seven other southeastern states:
The average temperature of 75.4 degrees nationwide was 2.7 degrees above normal. In Georgia, the average temperature was 83.3 degrees, 4.0 degrees warmer than normal. Despite August being a record warm month for the state, the long-term temperature trend for Georgia is slowly dropping. The heat wave caused more than 30 all time temperature records to be tied or broken around the country, and more than 2,000 daily high temperature records were broken.
For precipitation, it was the 37th driest August on record, out of 113 years measured. Much of the southeast had below-normal rainfall, continuing the drought conditions we’ve had for the past year:
From looking at the map, it appears that Georgia had a relatively normal month, ranking 43rd dries, especially against the extremely dry conditions in the surrounding states. This is due to above normal rainfall in central and south-central Georgia, and normal rainfall in the southeast part of the state. The rest of the state saw below normal precipitation, with the northwest and northeast corners much below normal.
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