National and local climatologists had predicted a drier and warmer than normal Juneau June. But meteorologist Rick Fritsch with the National Weather Service says this month has been neither.
So far, the airport has received 7.48 inches of rain, more than doubling what’s normal. Fritsch says this breaks the record for June rainfall.
“The maximum precipitation before this month was 6.69 inches and that was in 2012. We’re already at nearly seven and a half inches so we kind of stomped all over that record. Wettest June on record since at least World War II,” Fritsch says.
High temperatures in June normally average 62 degrees. Fritsch says it’s been about 3 degrees cooler than that.
It reached 69 degrees on June 16, the warmest day of the month. There’s a good chance Juneau will see even higher temperatures during the last few days of June.
“But with only four days left in the month, we’re not going to change those averages very much, so we’re going to end the month cooler than normal,” he says.
Looking ahead, the National Weather Service and Climate Prediction Center forecast a warmer and drier than normal July for all of Southeast Alaska.
