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Friday, July 15, 2011

Wonderful Weekend Weather Pattern Continues

We've been quite lucky with our weekend weather recently. Aside from just one-hundredth of an inch of rain each of the last two weekends, there has been only one weekend washout since the end of May. Our fair weather stretch will continue this weekend under mostly sunny skies, warm temperatures, and slowly increasing levels of humidity.


After looking at our weather record book this morning, I noticed that a little more than half of the weekends (54%) this year have been dry. Thirteen of the 28 weekends since January 1 have featured measured rain at Sikorsky Memorial Airport in Stratford. The last complete washout happened the weekend of June 11 and 12 when over an inch (1.19") of rain fell.

In case you're wondering, there were five consective weekends without any measured rain from March 12/13 through April 9/10 of this year. The worst stretch of weekend weather happened in mid-to-late April with back-to-back washouts the weekends of April 16/17 (1.57") and April 23/24 (1.25"). Although there were three straight wet weekends in May, two of the weekends delivered only five hundredths of an inch of rain.

January, March, and June featured three dry weekends each while May delivered three wet weekends. Only two of the months (March and June) had just one wet weekend. Here is the month-by-month summary of our weekend weather this year:
  • January: 2 wet, 3 dry
  • February: 2 wet, 2 dry
  • March: 1 wet, 3 dry
  • April: 2 wet, 2 dry
  • May: 3 wet, 2 dry
  • June: 1 wet, 3 dry
  • July: 2 wet, 0 dry
  • Total: 13 wet, 15 dry
If your weekend plans include the beach, the golf course, a backyard barbecue, or gardening, you'll like the forecast. We can expect sunny skies and seasonably warm temperatures tomorrow and Sunday. However, the humidity will build by the end of the weekend. Daytime highs will reach the middle 80s and nighttime lows will hold in the mid-to-upper 60s to close to 70 degrees.

Have a great weekend.

Paul