Source: Corey Davis, NC CLIMATE OFFICE, 8/2/19


Headlined by a week of often-oppressive heat for humans and crops alike, July was marked by warm temperatures and scattered but near-normal rainfall. In this climate summary, we also turn our attention to the tropical Atlantic in a hurricane season update.

Summer Heat Sizzles
A mid-month spell of hot weather punctuated what was a warm month overall in North Carolina. The preliminary average statewide temperature of 78.1°F ranked as our 28th-warmest July since 1895.

Many weather stations had one of their top-ten warmest Julys based on average mean temperatures, including Cape Hatteras, where it was the 4th-warmest July out of the past 126 years.

Overnight low temperatures ranked particularly highly in the Mountains, which spent much of the month in a humid air mass that kept nighttime dew points and temperatures elevated. In Marion, the average low temperature of 68.7°F was the 2nd-warmest in any July dating back 109 years.

All across the state, the elevated high temperatures were hard to ignore. We started the month on a warm note, including the month's highest reported temperature of 105°F in Dunn on July 3.

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