This year has left many of us wondering where is summer?
No, it has not been your imagination. Temperatures have been anything but summerlike for the tri-state.
There were 15 days during the month of July with highs in the 70's and 1 day that didn't even make it up to 70 degrees. Normally, we see highs in the mid to upper 80's in July, but this year it hasn't even made it above 85 once this month.
This doesn't mean we have been just a little bit cool, but record breaking cool. This is the coldest July on record in 140 years since data has been collected in Cincinnati.
The National Weather Service in Wilmington released data that showed our July average temperature was been 70.1 degrees. This is 6.2 degrees below our monthly average temperature of 76.3 for July.
Our previous coldest July on record was from 1947 when the monthly temperatures averaged 70.7 degrees. The second coldest July was from 1891 when the temperature averaged 71.4 degrees.
There's one big reason for this cooler than normal pattern, the location of the jet stream. During the summer months the jet stream is typically located across Canada and the Ohio Valley is left in the warmer air mass to the south of it.
This year, the jet stream has been located much farther south keeping us just on the north side of it and in a cooler air mass. Our rainfall has been higher too as disturbances have tracked along the jet across the Ohio Valley.
