Well 2007 came and went. Here’s a quick list of highlights:
January 13th-15th (link to blog post): Very cold air pulled south by a strong low positioned over the four corner states results in record low temperatures for much of Southern California. A very cold low of 22.9 degrees was recorded the morning of the 14th. Multiple reports of broken water pipes due to the freeze were reported.
Here are the high and lows for the 3 days:
Day High Low 13th 51.0°F 32.8°F 14th 53.1°F 22.9°F 15th 56.5°F 29.8°F
June 30th (blog post): Marked the end of a very dry rain season in California. Pushing the drought status to “severe”. DesertWeather.com (Thousand Palms) recorded only 29 hundredths of an inch for the rain season (June 06′ through July 07′)!
Below are the official rainfall tallies and ranking from the National Weather Service for the 06-07′ rain season:
LOCATION 2006-07 RAINFALL AVERAGE RAINFALL PALM SPRINGS 0.54 INCHES 5.23 INCHES THERMAL 0.17 INCHES 3.53 INCHES ...SEASONAL RAINFALL RANKINGS FOR PALM SPRINGS... RANK RAINFALL SEASON 1. 0.33 INCHES 2001-02 2. 0.54 INCHES 2006-07* 3. 0.81 INCHES 1998-99 ...SEASONAL RAINFALL RANKINGS FOR THERMAL... RANK RAINFALL SEASON 1. 0.17 INCHES 2006-07* 2. 0.42 INCHES 2001-02 3. 0.53 INCHES 1958-59
July through September: Southern California saw below normal activity of the Monsoon’s with only trace amounts recorded here on the valley floor. Temperatures were around normal with no days above 120°F. The summer high temperature was record on August 29th at 116.0°F.
November 30th (blog post): A cut off low off the coast of Northern Baja tapped into some tropical moisture and pulled it up into the valley. The rain total for DesertWeather was 1.33 inches, this storm ended a 227 day stretch with no rain and was the most rain we had seen since October 2005.
Rain totals for a few local areas were:
Palm Springs: 1.52 (record set for Nov 30th)
Thermal: 1.47 (record set for Nov 30th)
Yucca Valley: 2.24
Beaumont: .18
Idyllwild: 3.87
Pinyon: 2.47
Hemet: 2.65
Temecula: 4.16
Finally, here’s the complete year in one simple report, the Climatological report from DesertWeather.com for 2007:
ANNUAL CLIMATOLOGICAL REPORT
SUMMARYNAME: DesertWeather.com CITY: Thousand Palms STATE: California
ELEV: 275 ft LAT: 33° 49' 27" N LONG: 116° 23' 46" W
TEMPERATURE (°F), HEAT BASE 65.0, COOL BASE 65.0
DEP. HEAT COOL
MEAN MEAN FROM DEG DEG MAX MAX MIN MIN
YR MO MAX MIN MEAN NORM DAYS DAYS HI DATE LOW DATE >=90 <=32 <=32 <=0
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07 1 66.9 41.2 54.0 -2.0 365 25 81.6 8 22.9 14 0 0 4 0
07 2 74.0 49.7 61.5 0.5 155 61 84.7 16 38.0 25 0 0 0 0
07 3 83.7 56.5 70.3 4.3 75 239 99.0 16 39.5 4 8 0 0 0
07 4 85.5 62.5 73.3 1.3 35 285 104.1 28 48.8 19 11 0 0 0
07 5 94.5 68.7 81.2 3.2 3 505 103.3 9 59.8 5 25 0 0 0
07 6 103.3 77.6 89.7 2.7 1 741 112.2 30 61.2 7 29 0 0 0
07 7 106.2 83.4 94.2 0.2 0 904 114.8 5 78.3 11 31 0 0 0
07 8 106.6 84.8 94.9 2.9 0 924 116.0 29 76.0 10 31 0 0 0
07 9 97.5 74.9 85.4 -0.6 2 615 114.5 1 59.3 30 22 0 0 0
07 10 88.0 63.2 75.2 -0.8 9 326 99.0 3 54.5 8 14 0 0 0
07 11 81.1 55.6 67.9 3.9 90 177 92.3 6 43.5 25 6 0 0 0
07 12 64.3 41.1 52.0 -4.0 410 6 75.8 4 33.7 26 0 0 0 0
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87.7 63.4 75.1 1.0 1142 4808 116.0 AUG 22.9 JAN 177 0 4 0
PRECIPITATION (in)
DEP. MAX DAYS OF RAIN
FROM OBS. OVER
YR MO TOTAL NORM DAY DATE .01 .1 1
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07 1 0.00 -1.27 0.00 1 0 0 0
07 2 0.00 -1.15 0.00 1 0 0 0
07 3 0.01 -0.62 0.01 27 0 0 0
07 4 0.01 -0.07 0.01 16 0 0 0
07 5 0.00 -0.06 0.00 1 0 0 0
07 6 0.00 -0.05 0.00 1 0 0 0
07 7 0.00 -0.19 0.00 1 0 0 0
07 8 0.00 -0.40 0.00 1 0 0 0
07 9 0.00 -0.39 0.00 1 0 0 0
07 10 0.00 -0.11 0.00 1 0 0 0
07 11 1.18 0.89 1.18 30 1 1 1
07 12 0.58 -0.03 0.42 9 2 2 0
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1.78 -3.45 1.18 NOV 3 3 1
WIND SPEED (mph)
DOM
YR MO AVG. HI DATE DIR
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07 1 3.6 42.0 5 WNW
07 2 6.8 46.0 23 WNW
07 3 6.5 46.0 21 WNW
07 4 11.4 54.0 12 WNW
07 5 11.4 49.0 4 WNW
07 6 11.1 47.0 6 WNW
07 7 7.6 40.0 16 WNW
07 8 6.7 40.0 4 WNW
07 9 9.4 41.0 29 WNW
07 10 7.0 49.0 16 WNW
07 11 3.0 38.0 9 W
07 12 1.9 37.0 7 W
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7.2 54.0 APR WNW
Happy New Year!