Global Warming

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
900 AM CST TUE JAN 1 2008

...2007 IS THE 2ND WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD IN NASHVILLE AND THE 9TH
DRIEST...

THE TEMPERATURE IN NASHVILLE FOR 2007 AVERAGED 62.3 DEGREES...
MAKING IT THE 2ND WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD. THE TEMPERATURE WAS 3.4
DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL...AND JUST TWO TENTHS OF ONE DEGREE SHY OF THE
WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD...WHICH WAS BACK IN 1921 WHEN THE TEMPERATURE
AVERAGED 62.5 DEGREES. THIS WAS THE 4TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR WITH ABOVE
NORMAL TEMPERATURES IN NASHVILLE. THE NORMAL ANNUAL TEMPERATURE IN
NASHVILLE IS 58.9 DEGREES.

NASHVILLE HAD ITS 9TH DRIEST YEAR ON RECORD IN 2007 AND THE DRIEST
SINCE 1988. RAINFALL TOTALED 35.66 INCHES WHICH IS 74 PERCENT OF THE
30 YEAR NORMAL ANNUAL RAINFALL OF 48.11 INCHES.