June: Wet and Wild
July: Fairly typical

By Russell Russ

A summary of June and July weather as recorded at Norfolk’s National Weather
Observer Station, Norfolk 2 SW, by the Great Mountain Forest Corporation.
JUNE: The month's high temperature of 92 degrees was observed on June 10. The low
temperature of 45 degrees was observed on June 18. The average temperature this
month was 66.2 degrees, 3 degrees above normal. There were two temperature records
set this month, both for high temperature.
The total precipitation recorded this month was 7.67 inches, 3 inches above normal.
There were nine thunderstorms in June. The storm on the evening of June 10 was the
most destructive to have hit Norfolk in quite some time. It came with heavy rain, hail,
damaging winds and perhaps most memorable of all, rolling thunder accompanied by
vivid and frequent lightning. Many roads around town were blocked by downed trees
and branches. Electricity was knocked out in some areas for nearly 48 hours. The
general conclusion from the National Weather Service was that the damage was a result
of straight-line winds, not any tornadoes.
Looking back through the records to 1932, this month of June fell within the top ten for
both warm temperatures and most rainfall.
JULY: The month's low temperature of 53 degrees was observed on July 11. The high
temperature of 87 degrees was observed on both July 19 and 20. The average
temperature this month was 70 degrees, 2.2 degrees above the July average. There were
no weather records set this month, but Norfolk did have some typical hazy, hot and
humid weather, especially during the middle part of the month.
It was generally cloudy around the Fourth of July weekend, but most of the region’s
fireworks displays seemed to go off without many weather related problems.
The total precipitation recorded this month was 5.65 inches, 1.54 inches above normal.
Thunderstorms were observed on July 20, 24, 27 (which had two), and 31.

This July continued this summer’s trend of a seemingly above average number of
thunderstorms which produce short bursts of heavy rainfall.