CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – Did you are feeling like August was a moist month?

Have been you always wiping off muddy paws and utilizing your windshield wipers?

If you happen to reside in Cleveland, you might be able to relate to these experiences.

August 2022 introduced 5.63 inches of rain to Cleveland Hopkins.

Whereas that’s 2.07 inches above regular, it doesn’t put August 2022 within the prime 10 wettest Augusts on report in Cleveland.

In Akron, only one.65 inches of rain fell final month.

That’s 1.96 inches beneath regular, nevertheless it doesn’t make it into the highest 10 driest Augusts on report in Akron.

Why the dramatic distinction between these two cities?

In spite of everything, Cleveland and Akron are solely about 40 miles aside.

The 19 First Alert Climate group attributes this to a couple issues, one being the hit-or-miss nature of summertime thunderstorms.

On many summer time afternoons, because the temperature rises and the solar heats the floor of the Earth, we expertise the event of extensively scattered showers and thunderstorms.

You’ve most likely positioned a pot of water on a range eye to boil.

As the attention will get hotter, bubbles will start to kind, however you possibly can’t predict precisely the place within the pot these bubbles will develop.

Summertime storms imitate this frequent kitchen idea.

One space can decide up an inch or so of rain out of only one high-precipitation summertime thunderstorm, whereas a city a number of miles away may even see little or no, if any, rainfall.

One more reason for August’s rainfall disparity between Cleveland and Akron could be the frequent prevalence of lake impact and lake enhanced showers final month.

Meteorologist Jeff Tanchak, who possesses almost twenty years of expertise forecasting in northeast Ohio, mentioned he can not recall an August once we had so many lake enhanced rain showers.

Lake impact precipitation typically happens north of the Akron space.

Lastly, Meteorologist Erika Paige recollects a handful of days final month the place a lake breeze developed through the day and thunderstorms moved from west to east alongside the lake breeze boundary.

This will have additionally contributed to increased rainfall totals within the Cleveland space.

Cleveland was not the one metropolis that recorded a moist August although.

On Aug. 21, three to 5 inches of rainfall fell throughout Lorain County, which is greater than some communities recorded all month.

Concerning August’s temperatures, one would anticipate August to be on the warmer aspect, however this was basically a “typical” August for us.

The typical temperature in Cleveland in August was 73 levels, which is completely regular.

The typical temperature in Akron was 74 levels, which is 1.7 levels hotter than what’s thought of typical for August.

Neither Cleveland nor Akron skilled their prime 10 warmest Augusts, however they did each report a handful of 90 diploma, or hotter, days.

Cleveland recorded two 90 diploma, or hotter, days, and Akron reported 4.

As we bid farewell to August, and Meteorological summer time, the solar will start to rise a bit later within the day and sink decrease on the horizon earlier within the evenings.

Temperatures will steadily get cooler, and leaves will slowly start to alter.

Nevertheless, September of 2022 may very well start on a heat observe.

The Local weather Prediction Heart is forecasting above-normal temperatures for the month of September.

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