{"id":17760,"date":"2012-09-11T13:53:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T18:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=17760"},"modified":"2012-09-12T15:29:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T20:29:07","slug":"your-summer-report-card-not-as-hellish-as-last-year-but-a-barely-passing-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/09\/11\/your-summer-report-card-not-as-hellish-as-last-year-but-a-barely-passing-grade\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Summer Report Card: Not as Hellish as Last Year, But a Barely Passing Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Texas had decent rain this summer, but its high temperatures aren't a good sign.<\/p><\/div>\n

As a cold front made its way to Texas this weekend, you may have noticed a shift in habits. AC-addled couch-surfers took to their bikes for the first time in weeks, joggers weren’t relegated to nocturnal runs, and al fresco seating at bars and cafes was suddenly at a premium. Summer is over for Texas, so perhaps it’s time to take stock of how our season fared.<\/p>\n

If you were to give the summer a grade, you’d probably have to do it in two subjects: heat and precipitation. For the latter, we’d give it a solid ‘B.’ Victor Murphy,\u00a0meteorologist\u00a0with the National Weather Service, tells StateImpact Texas that the state had 6.71 inches of rainfall this summer, while the average over the last hundred years is 7.59 inches. “So, as a whole, we were 0.88″ below normal, or about 12% less than normal,” Murphy says in an email. “This comes on the heels of the driest summer ever on record in 2011.” That summer the state only had 2.48 inches of rain.<\/p>\n

But when it comes to heat, the GPA quickly declines. <\/p>\n

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