Feeling the heat: July continues extreme hot and dry trend

Boerne is perhaps experiencing its worst combined hot and dry summer on record as the month of July provided no relief to the extreme conditions experienced since May and before.

In fact, the daily average high temperature last month was almost 100 degrees, or about 7 degrees above normal. Also, even though 1.62 inches of rain was measured in July, it all fell on one day and still was more than an inch below normal.

Since May 1, Boerne Stage Field has experienced 18 record-high temperature days, according to information from the National Weather Service office in New Braunfels, the station that keeps track of Boerne’s weather. Five of those records were set in May, another nine in June and four in July.