A September to Remember: Robertson County

Now that Summer is in the rear view mirror, we can look forward to all the wonderful weather the Autumn season has to offer. What’s great about this transition is that weather patterns tend to have more variation as opposed to a static form on a day to day basis. As we all know, Summer has sun, heat, humidity, and very little rainfall. However, as colder air builds in Canada and the northern United States, cold fronts will be more frequent visitors. This means rain will be part of our nomenclature more often, and temperatures will tend to fluctuate up and down easily. Despite easing our minds that wet weather will come around more frequently, September really went out with a bang.

If you were to combine the entire rainfall totals collected at the official reporting station in Hearne from May to August of this year, 7.29” was recorded. Now, compare that to the whole month of September, where an astounding 6.89” fell, in just one month. That is what I call a drought helper.

In the beginning of September, there were a few minor weather events that dropped insignificant amounts of rain, but the story was really what happened at the end of the month as cold fronts began to swoop in. On September 20^th, 2.10” of rain fell. September 28^th, 1.59” was recorded. The final knockout punch occurred September 29^th, where 2.81” fell.

I hope this keeps type of weather keeps coming in our direction because we continuously are in dire need of more wet weather. What I can tell you in the near term is that yet another cold front will move in by Saturday increasing our chance for rain, and significantly changing temperatures. Afternoon highs this weekend should remain in the 80s, but the largest contrast will occur in the mornings where temperatures could drop into the 50s for both Sunday and Monday mornings. Shorts and short sleeves now will turn to jackets sooner than you think.

Take a look up once in a while; you never know what you’ll miss.

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