June's high temperatures started out being above normal. Then they cooled off for the middle of the month, and ended warmer than usual. No record high temperatures occured thus month. The low temperature trend this month was not much different. They were slightly above normal for the month. No record low temperatures occured in June. The highest high temperature was 96° on the 29th and the lowest high temperature was 63° on the 24th. This came out to a 36° range of high temperatures this month.

We received only 0.36 inches of precipitation, nearly an inch below normal. This is the second month since February that we have received below normal rainfall. There were no record setting days of rainfall this month. Even with the shortage of precipitation, we are still well above normal from where we should be this time of year. The 2002-2003 water year will have no shortage of rain when the end of the 12 month period comes around.

Table 1 - daily data recorded at the Hyslop Experiment Station.

Table 2 - access to the daily data recorded at the Corvallis Agri-Met Automated Station. You choose the station and parameters.

Summary:

Parameter                 Observed   Dep.*   Parameter                       Observed   Dep.*
 
Average maximum temperature  78.3     5.2    Days with measurable precip.      5        -2.8   
                                                                         
Average minimum temperature  49.8     1.2    Days with .10" or more precip.    1        -3.4    
                                                                       
Monthly precipitation        0.36    -0.87   Days with .50" or more precip.    0        -0.6    
                                                                                    
Growing degree days @ 50F     431     +84    Days with 1" or more precip.      0        -0.1       
                                                                   
* departure from 1971-00 normal

Looking ahead to July:

Maxima rise to about 80°
Minima rise to about 51°
Average precipitation is 0.52 inches
There are an average of 4 days with measurable precipitation

Oregon Climate Service

George H. Taylor, Oregon State Climatologist

Wayne P. Gibson, Programmer/GIS mngr.

Mandy Matzke, Research Asst./Manager of Data Services

Melanie Mitchell, Undergraduate Assistant

Derek Gilbert, Undergraduate Assistant

Emily Gibson, Student Assistant

Wolf Read, Undergraduate Assistant

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