Heat, Yolo T W/Ne Solano/Sacramento T X Sw/X W Placer/X W Amador/S Sutter
- When
- July 1, 12:01 AM PST to July 31, 11:59 PM PST
- Where
- Yolo T W/Ne Solano/Sacramento T X Sw/X W Placer/X W Amador/S Sutter forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Heat in California, July 1 to 31, 2005
July 2005 set a new record for heat in Sacramento. 8 degrees for the month.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS STO wrote it up.
July 2005 set a new record for heat in Sacramento. The average temperature in Sacramento was 81.8 degrees for the month. This was the hottest average temperature ever recorded in Sacramento. The old record was 81.6 degrees set in July 2003. In addition, the average low temperature for the month of July was 65.2 degrees...breaking the old record of 65.1 degrees set in July 2003. However...the average high temperature record was not broken. The average for July 2005 was 98.4 degrees, which is well below the record average high of 99.6 degrees set in 1988.
Event by event
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heat
- Heat below excessive heat criteria that still caused deaths, injuries or significant impacts.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flood and Damaging Winds in Texas, July 1 to 31, 2005
- Drought in Iowa, July 1 to 31, 2005
- Drought in Illinois, July 1 to 31, 2005
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, July 1, 2005
- Flooding in South Dakota, July 1 to 10, 2005
- Drought in Missouri, July 1 to 31, 2005
- Hail in Nebraska, July 1, 2005
- Flood in Florida, July 1 to 31, 2005
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 1, 2005
- Lightning Strike in New Jersey, July 1, 2005
- Damaging Winds in Texas, July 1, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Wind in New Mexico, July 1, 2005
More
Every storm in California in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in California, July 2005
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5471103.