Vermont Shared In Cool August In Much Of Nation

Vermont had a number of dry, cool, sunny
days this past August.  

Large swaths of the United States from the Great Lakes to the East Coast had a relatively cool August this year.

Not record cool, just not as hot as you'd expect in the summer.

Here in Vermont, we followed that trend. Most towns in Vermont, including Montpelier, St. Johnsbury and Springfield, had a mean August temperature of between one and nearly two and a half degrees cooler than normal.

For some reason, Burlington, in the Champlain Valley, eked out a sort of warmer than normal August, if you can call a mean temperature of 0.2 degrees warmer than average truly toasty.

The coldest corner of the state seems to be St. Johnsbury, which was 2.4 degrees chillier than normal in August. That town in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom has a decent chance of having the year 2014 end up being among the top 10 coldest on records that date back more than 100 years.

It was on the dry side in most of Vermont during August, too. Burlington just had a little more than half it's normal August precipitation, with a total of 2.05 inches. Montpelier and St. Johnsbury were an inch or two on the dry side as well. Southern Vermont was a bit wetter, with totals just a shade on the dry side.

I wouldn't worry about drought just yet. It was relatively wet in June and July, and August wasn't THAT dry. Some rain is also forecast this week.

So no dust bowl for us Vermonters just yet.