CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – (CLARKSVILLENOW) July 2016 is going down in the record books as the wettest month ever for Clarksville-Montgomery County. The record was broken by just over two inches of rain according to Meteorologist Brittney Whitehead with the National Weather Service in Nashville.
Whitehead said the area got slightly under 12 inches which broke the old record of just under 10 inches set in 1981. There was also one 24-hour period in the month, July 6th and 7th, that close to 4 inches, 3.86 inches to be exact, fell.
“I think it’s interesting to note that you got 18 days of thunderstorms which is why you got up to that 11.98 inches,” Whitehead said. She added that the number of thunderstorms in the area, which is significant, is what helped break the record.
The official site for the weather service to measure rainfall is Outlaw Field at the Clarksville-Montgomery County Regional Airport. According to radar estimates and observations there were some isolated areas north and west of Clarksville that had up to 15 inches.
As far as the heat and of course the humidity Whitehead said the temperature for July in the area averaged 2.1 degrees above normal. The average high for this past July was 89.8 degrees and the average low was 70.7.
In case you are keeping track, the hottest day for the month was July 23 with 95 degrees, the coolest night was July 2 with 65 degrees and there were 17 days of 90 and above temperatures.
With all of that rain there were no reports of any dangerous flooding according to Jerry Buchanan, Montgomery County Emergency Management Director. Buchanan said there was water over some roadways for a short time and some flooding reported in agricultural fields.
