Proof of the wet and cool summer

You don’t have to tell anyone it’s been a wet start to summer. Tomato and other farmers are suffering, as Bina Venkataraman noted in a recent story.

But it’s also been cool. AccuWeather.com notes that more than 1,100 daily record low temperatures were broken nationwide in July, according to the National Climatic Data Center.

Yet another gray day in Boston

And the local office of the National Weather Service notes that June was the sixth coolest at Boston Logan airport since official records began in 1872. July, averaging around 70.5 degrees Fahrenheit was 3.4 degrees cooler than normal, but didn’t even make the top ten list of coolest Julys on record. But if one combines June and July, their average temperature of 66.9 is the fourth coolest June/July on record. It hasn’t been that cold those two months since 1903.

In Boston, there were no June or July days 90 degrees or hotter. The last time that happened was back in 1996. Prior to that it was 1992, 1906 and 1889.

And for the rain? June, for all its grayness, wasn’t all that wet. In July, however, it rained 6.9 inches – almost four inches more than normal. It was the sixth wettest July since records began and the wettest since 1982.

August is looking sunny so far. Maybe today’s temperatures that are stretching toward 90 is trying to make up for something.