Average temperature in June information, from Gary McManus, Oklahoma Climatological Survey

Source: Gary McManus, Oklahoma Climatological Survey

The average temperature at Altus and Grandfield during June has been 89.7 degrees thus far. A couple of Ticker readers have been prompting me about how close that is to a record. Well, it’s getting pretty darned close to being a record for ANY month, at least for the Oklahoma Mesonet. Here are the top-5 Mesonet average station temperatures by month.

Grandfield July 2001 90.3 degrees

Burneyville July 1998 90.0 degrees

Altus June 2011 89.7 degrees (June 1-27)

Grandfield June 2011 89.7 degrees (June 1-27)

Cherokee July 2001 89.6 degrees

The first June that shows up on the list before 2011 is Altus with 84.5 degrees back in 1998 … in 157th place. July and August dominate the first few hundred.

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