March, April, and May were all very active months for severe weather, so it was nice to finally get some quiet time in June. However, the lack of rain and big time heat eventually created their own problems before the month ended. Here's an overview of what we experienced last month.

Louisville has two official sites for data collection by the National Weather Service. One is at Bowman Field, the other is at Louisville International. Bowman recorded an average temperature (high temp and low temp combined and divided by two for each day) of 75.2 degrees (0.2 degrees below average) for the month. Louisville International ran 2.1 degrees warmer than its average for the month of June and ended up with an average temperature of 78.5 degrees. Both stations were below average in terms of rainfall, but Louisville International was particularly rough. Louisville International recorded 1.78" (-2.49") while Bowman Field picked up 2.88" (-1.80"). 

There were some warm temperature records set across Kentucky, specifically with our low temperatures. Louisville set two new records for warmest daily low temperatures: June 19th at 79 degrees and June 29th at 83 degrees. The 83 degree low temperature for June 29th is now also the warmest low temperature ever recorded in the month of June for Louisville. The official temperature records for the city of Louisville are recorded at Louisville International. Bowling Green, Lexington, and Frankfort all set record warm low temperatures on the 29th as well at 80, 78, and 79 degrees respectively. 

Not only did we have some warm morning starts, but we had a decent stretch of warm days during the second half of the month. Louisville topped out at or above 90 degrees 12 times, 7 of those in a row from the 16th to the 22nd. The 17th and the 22nd tied for the warmest day at the month at 96 degrees. An average June has 8.6 days in the 90s.

The warm days and lack of rain led to drought returning to Kentuckiana for the first time in a while. There was no drought in our area for the first half of the month, but "abnormally dry" conditions returned to Indiana during the third week. That "abnormally dry" category crept across the Ohio River and into Kentucky during the 4th week and parts of Indiana were placed in "moderate drought" at that time.