Saturday, July 9, 2011

Turn Up The Heat



TRIPLE DIGIT HEAT INDEX:
Temperatures will zoom to near 90° for your Saturday here in the Cookeville, TN area with overnight lows of 68° by Sunday at sunrise and then will hit 93° tomorrow with heat index values nearing 100°. Skies will be clear throughout the weekend.

WORK WEEK FORECAST:
Next week's weather will continue the very hot pattern of this weekend with a slight chance of storms each day. We should see a break in this oppressive heat by Friday.

BEAT THE HEAT, CHECK THE BACKSEAT:
With a rash of arrests recently of people who've left kids in the car while they've gone to do other things, I thought this would be a great time to remind folks of just what happens in a car in a short period of time. As the graphic above shows, when the temp outdoors is just 80°, a car will heat up to more than 120° in 60 short minutes. This is a death trap for children. Deaths of children left in vehicles has averaged anywhere from 30-47 annually since 1998. This is a SICKENING stat.





Cookeville's Daily Almanac
July 9, 2011
Our morning low: 68.8°
Yesterday's high: 85.4°
Yesterday's low: 68.7°
Last Year: 96° and 67°
Normal High: 87°
Normal Low: 65°
Records: 101° in 1988 and 53° in 1918


Rainfall Report
24-hour precip total: 0.00"
July monthly precip: 0.99"
2011 total precip: 44.43"
2.03" of rain fell on this date in 1916

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