WEEKLY SOUTH CAROLINA WEATHER 2007

July 23 - July 29, 2007

WEATHER SUMMARY:

Columbia AP cooled to a date record 58 degrees on Monday morning. Johnston's 52 degrees Monday was their coolest July temperature in over 50 years and N. Myrtle set date records of 62 degrees Monday and 64 degrees on Tuesday. Florence tied their July 23 record low with 59 degrees and set a new date record on July 24 with 63 degrees. The rare and welcomed cool July weather was short lived and was quickly replaced Thursday with more drying heat and afternoon temperatures climbing back into the middle 90's. Strong thunderstorms on Friday produced 2-inch hailstones and a wind gust of 63 mph at Shaw AFB in Sumter. Saturday's storms near the West Ashley community in Charleston County dropped hail the size of golf balls. Wet weather coverage was scattered into Saturday, diminishing to just isolated on a mostly cloudy Sunday. The state average temperature for the period was four degrees below normal.

The highest official temperature reported was 97 degrees at Jamestown on July 27. The lowest official temperature reported was 52 degrees at Johnston on the morning of July 23 and at Dillon on July 24. The heaviest official 24-hour rainfall reported was 1.55 inches at Orangeburg AP on July 26. The state average rainfall for the period was 0.5 inches.

PRECIPITATION:

                                Precipitation                    
                       Weekly   Jan 1  Deviation     
                        Total   Total   From Avg
         Greer           0.28   19.72    -10.6
      Columbia           0.86   19.68     -9.7
    Orangeburg           2.06   25.94     -3.4
 Charlotte, NC           0.39   19.86     -5.7            	
   Augusta, GA           0.52   20.47     -6.7 
      Florence           0.02   23.67     -2.7
N Myrtle Beach           0.01   15.82     -8.7
    Charleston           1.10   17.60    -11.6     
  Savannah, GA           1.62   21.70     -6.8


Weekly rainfall totals ending midnight Sunday.  

SOIL:

4-inch depth average soil temperature: Columbia 80 degrees.

RIVERS AND SURF:

South Carolina river stages were below normal. Ocean water temperatures at Springmaid Pier Myrtle Beach were reported at 83 degrees.


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