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5th straight warmer-than-normal June at PIT, and more days with rain than normal. I rate it as a C.
Year-to-date precip: 19.14"/486 mm, −1.3% HDD since last 1 July (F): 6017, +307 Year-to-date CDD (F): 259, +57 Year-to-date GDD, base 50F/10C: 1142F/634C, +7.2% Sunshine: 3 "clear", 18 partly cloudy, and 9 cloudy days, which seems near climatology. Daily records: None. January saw several cold (and one snow) records, February thru April saw no records, and May saw a daily rainfall record. Daily data:
MDW had powerhouse rain fall this June. Second greatest at that site's history going back to 1928. I still fail to understand why NWS/Chicago hasn't computed MDW's climate normals/averages yet?? NCDC has them.
At anyrate, MDW had an average high of 27.9C, an average low 17.7C, and a Mean of 22.2C. Rain totaled to 269.2mm.
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Not surprising that Northerly Island came out below average as Lake Michigan water temps are well below normal still...
All in all a decent start to summer. Almost all Chicagoland site reported positive anomalies (away from the lakeshore). Lots of tropical air. High dew points, but no extreme heat. I give this month a C+, would be a B, but sunshine was below normal. Don't have exact figures from MDW yet.
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MDW had powerhouse rain fall this June. Second greatest at that site's history going back to 1928. I still fail to understand why NWS/Chicago hasn't computed MDW's climate normals/averages yet?? NCDC has them.
Then e-mail the NWS Romeoville, IL office. I e-mailed NWS Sterling, VA to add the Baltimore Inner Harbor station to NOWData and to fix a bug or two, and they did.
The rain days were too much despite the the relatively low precipitation amount. The sunshine hours are also lackluster. But not that bad, as the temps seem a bit comfortable if not too cool.
Hotter than average by 1.1C (2F), but more constantly hot than a single record-breaking heatwave. Only 3 days didn't reach 30C (86F) with an average high of 31.5C (88.7F). Near-normal precipitation and cloud cover.
Overall rating: D mostly because of the long stretch of days above 30C.
The first half was lovely with cloudy and wet conditions prevailing (A+) and the second half, especially the last week, awful with persistent icy and windy westerlies prevailing (Z-). Those yucky westerlies arrived far too early . No rain have fallen over the past two weeks too .
The rain days were too much despite the the relatively low precipitation amount. The sunshine hours are also lackluster. But not that bad, as the temps seem a bit comfortable if not too cool.
Oops, I was rating Buxton up there.
I'd rate my city B-/C+.
A cool and windy month, despite the nice warm start. We had a lot of sunny days though.
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. No rain have fallen over the past two weeks too 
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