The old saying goes “if you don’t like the weather in the Twin Lakes Area, wait a few minutes and it will change.” Mother Nature has proved that true, but over the course of the last two months. After May went down as the fifth wettest May in Mountain Home history, June was the third driest June in the record books.
According to weather records at KTLO, Classic Hits and The Boot, the official reporting station in Mountain Home for the National Weather Service, only 38 hundredths of an inch of rain fell during June. Rain was only recorded five days, and it’s been 21 days since any rain has fallen.
Twice in Mountain Home history, we have had a month of June with no rainfall. That happened in 1933 and 1952. This year now sits at number three on the list of driest Junes in the record books. The average rainfall for June is 3.88 inches.
Going back one month, May saw rainfall 14 days for a total of 10.92 inches.
Going into June, Mountain Home was 7.74 inches above normal rainfall, but thanks to June, that number has shrunk considerably. Through the first six months of the year, we are now 4.24 inches above normal. Average rainfall through June is 26.75 and 30.99 inches has been recorded in Mountain Home.
June was a hot month as well, with 14 days of 90 degrees or hotter and seven days with temperatures of 95 or higher. The hottest temperature was 97 on the 26th. Twenty of the month’s 30 days had high temperatures above normal.
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