September included just two days of recorded rainfall and a record high that was tied.
A total of 2.81 inches of rain was recorded at KTLO, Classic Hits and The Boot, the official reporting station in Mountain Home for the National Weather Service. Rainfall was recorded on Sept. 2 and 3, and none has fallen since then. The average rainfall for the month of September is 3.66 inches, meaning we were 85 hundredths of an inch below normal.
Year-to-date, Mountain Home continues to run above normal for precipitation. A total of 41.61 inches of rain have fallen this year, which is 3.31 inches above the normal rainfall through the first nine months of the year which is 38.3 inches.
The high recorded on Sept. 21 was 96, and that tied the previous record for the same day in 1970. A high of 96 was also recorded the next day, which was one degree shy of the record for Sept. 22 set in 1935.
The average high temperature for the month was 83.1 degrees, down exactly five degrees from 88.1 in August. The lowest temperature of the month was 46 degrees on Sept. 27 and 28.
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