August Weather at Safford Municipal Airport United States

Daily high temperatures decrease by 3°F, from 97°F to 94°F, rarely falling below 88°F or exceeding 103°F.

Daily low temperatures decrease by 4°F, from 72°F to 68°F, rarely falling below 61°F or exceeding 78°F.

For reference, on June 28, the hottest day of the year, temperatures at Safford Municipal Airport typically range from 70°F to 100°F, while on January 4, the coldest day of the year, they range from 34°F to 59°F.

The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average temperatures for the quarter of the year centered on August. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day.

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The month of August at Safford Municipal Airport experiences rapidly decreasing cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy decreasing from 44% to 30%.

The clearest day of the month is August 31, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 70% of the time.

For reference, on July 29, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 45%, while on June 8, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 83%.

A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. At Safford Municipal Airport, the chance of a wet day over the course of August is very rapidly decreasing, starting the month at 40% and ending it at 27%.

For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 41% on August 3, and its lowest chance is 3% on June 6.

Rainfall

To show variation within the month and not just the monthly total, we show the rainfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day.

The average sliding 31-day rainfall during August at Safford Municipal Airport is decreasing, starting the month at 2.0 inches, when it rarely exceeds 3.3 inches or falls below 1.0 inches, and ending the month at 1.4 inches, when it rarely exceeds 2.4 inches or falls below 0.5 inches.

Over the course of August at Safford Municipal Airport, the length of the day is decreasing. From the start to the end of the month, the length of the day decreases by 53 minutes, implying an average daily decrease of 1 minute, 46 seconds, and weekly decrease of 12 minutes, 22 seconds.

The shortest day of the month is August 31, with 12 hours, 51 minutes of daylight and the longest day is August 1, with 13 hours, 44 minutes of daylight.

The earliest sunrise of the month at Safford Municipal Airport is 5:32 AM on August 1 and the latest sunrise is 20 minutes later at 5:52 AM on August 31.

The latest sunset is 7:16 PM on August 1 and the earliest sunset is 33 minutes earlier at 6:43 PM on August 31.

Daylight saving time is not observed at Safford Municipal Airport during 2024.

For reference, on June 20, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 5:10 AM and sets 14 hours, 19 minutes later, at 7:29 PM, while on December 21, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 7:17 AM and sets 9 hours, 59 minutes later, at 5:16 PM.

The figure below presents a compact representation of the sun's elevation (the angle of the sun above the horizon) and azimuth (its compass bearing) for every hour of every day in the reporting period. The horizontal axis is the day of the year and the vertical axis is the hour of the day. For a given day and hour of that day, the background color indicates the azimuth of the sun at that moment. The black isolines are contours of constant solar elevation.

The figure below presents a compact representation of key lunar data for August 2024. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the colored areas indicate when the moon is above the horizon. The vertical gray bars (new Moons) and blue bars (full Moons) indicate key Moon phases. The label associated with each bar indicates the date and time that the phase is obtained, and the companion time labels indicate the rise and set times of the Moon for the nearest time interval in which the moon is above the horizon.

We base the humidity comfort level on the dew point, as it determines whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid. Unlike temperature, which typically varies significantly between night and day, dew point tends to change more slowly, so while the temperature may drop at night, a muggy day is typically followed by a muggy night.

The chance that a given day will be muggy at Safford Municipal Airport is gradually decreasing during August, falling from 8% to 4% over the course of the month.

The highest chance of a muggy day during August is 8% on August 3.

For reference, on August 3, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 8% of the time, while on January 1, the least muggy day of the year, there are muggy conditions 0% of the time.

This section discusses the wide-area hourly average wind vector (speed and direction) at 10 meters above the ground. The wind experienced at any given location is highly dependent on local topography and other factors, and instantaneous wind speed and direction vary more widely than hourly averages.

The average hourly wind speed at Safford Municipal Airport is essentially constant during August, remaining within 0.2 miles per hour of 6.0 miles per hour throughout.

For reference, on April 21, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 8.7 miles per hour, while on August 15, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 5.8 miles per hour.

The lowest daily average wind speed during August is 5.8 miles per hour on August 15.

The wind direction at Safford Municipal Airport during August is predominantly out of the west from August 1 to August 19 and the east from August 19 to August 31.

Definitions of the growing season vary throughout the world, but for the purposes of this report, we define it as the longest continuous period of non-freezing temperatures (≥ 32°F) in the year (the calendar year in the Northern Hemisphere, or from July 1 until June 30 in the Southern Hemisphere).

The growing season at Safford Municipal Airport typically lasts for 8.3 months (254 days), from around March 9 to around November 18, rarely starting before February 4 or after April 10, and rarely ending before October 29 or after December 9.

The month of August at Safford Municipal Airport is reliably fully within the growing season.

Growing degree days are a measure of yearly heat accumulation used to predict plant and animal development, and defined as the integral of warmth above a base temperature, discarding any excess above a maximum temperature. In this report, we use a base of 50°F and a cap of 86°F.

The average accumulated growing degree days at Safford Municipal Airport are rapidly increasing during August, increasing by 895°F, from 3,587°F to 4,482°F, over the course of the month.

This section discusses the total daily incident shortwave solar energy reaching the surface of the ground over a wide area, taking full account of seasonal variations in the length of the day, the elevation of the Sun above the horizon, and absorption by clouds and other atmospheric constituents. Shortwave radiation includes visible light and ultraviolet radiation.

The average daily incident shortwave solar energy at Safford Municipal Airport is essentially constant during August, remaining within 0.1 kWh of 6.4 kWh throughout.

For the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Safford Municipal Airport are 32.855 deg latitude, -109.636 deg longitude, and 3,169 ft elevation.

The topography within 2 miles of Safford Municipal Airport contains only modest variations in elevation, with a maximum elevation change of 404 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 3,152 feet. Within 10 miles contains only modest variations in elevation (3,901 feet). Within 50 miles also contains extreme variations in elevation (8,209 feet).

The area within 2 miles of Safford Municipal Airport is covered by shrubs (99%), within 10 miles by shrubs (89%) and cropland (10%), and within 50 miles by shrubs (81%) and trees (15%).