That map shows temperatures across the country, compared to average, for June/July/August, a.k.a. “Meteorological Summer.” Most of the country was below average. No argument here, with the coolest July on record in Indianapolis. June was a little above average and August was slightly below average, thanks to the big heat of the last two weeks.
If you average the “summer” temperatures in Indy you get the coolest summer in ten years, and the 25th coolest on record. (Those go back to the late 1800s.) Indy finally made it above 90 in the last week of the month. It still hasn’t happened officially in Lafayette.
The total rainfall for Indianapolis this summer was 13.09 inches. The normal rainfall total for summer is 11.93 inches, which made this summer above normal by 1.16 inches. Click here for the National Weather Service central Indiana weather summary and click here for the August weather summary.
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