Warmer In September Than August?

Have you noticed how warm it's felt recently? Mostly likely, the answer to that question is a simple "Yes!" We've been noticing in here too - in fact, I made it out to the golf course today (in case you don't know this, I have just started top play this year and am still very bad at it). While many of the hits were bad - I did get my first birdie ever... hitting the ball from about 40 yards out with my pitching wedge right into the hole!


Anyhow... about that warmth... We tabulated the data and came up with a few interesting statistics:

Not including today's warm high, we've seen an average high of 77.1 degrees for the month of September. Our average high for today is 74. The big story comes when you compare the past 8 days of September to the entire month of August.

It's been 0.2 degrees warmer so far these last 8 days than what is typically our 2nd warmest month of the year. Hopefully we can keep it up while we wait for that next cooldown to come in. We'll be talking much more about *that* over the next few days!

Have a good night!

~KDLT Chief Meteorologist Aaron Shaffer