July Weather at Loring Air Force Base / Limeston United States

Daily high temperatures are around 75°F, rarely falling below 65°F or exceeding 84°F. The highest daily average high temperature is 76°F on July 26.

Daily low temperatures are around 57°F, rarely falling below 48°F or exceeding 66°F. The highest daily average low temperature is 58°F on July 20.

For reference, on July 26, the hottest day of the year, temperatures at Loring Air Force Base / Limeston typically range from 58°F to 76°F, while on January 29, the coldest day of the year, they range from 4°F to 20°F.

The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average temperatures for the quarter of the year centered on July. 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.

Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia (4,299 miles away); Tsovasar, Armenia (5,156 miles); and Utashinai, Japan (5,931 miles) are the far-away foreign places with temperatures most similar to Loring Air Force Base / Limeston (view comparison).

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The month of July at Loring Air Force Base / Limeston experiences essentially constant cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy remaining about 46% throughout the month.

The clearest day of the month is July 26, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 56% of the time.

For reference, on January 11, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 70%, while on August 20, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 60%.

A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. At Loring Air Force Base / Limeston, the chance of a wet day over the course of July is gradually decreasing, starting the month at 44% and ending it at 41%.

For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 46% on July 10, and its lowest chance is 20% on February 11.

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 July at Loring Air Force Base / Limeston is essentially constant, remaining about 3.7 inches throughout, and rarely exceeding 6.1 inches or falling below 1.8 inches.

The highest average 31-day accumulation is 3.8 inches on July 15.

Over the course of July at Loring Air Force Base / Limeston, the length of the day is decreasing. From the start to the end of the month, the length of the day decreases by 55 minutes, implying an average daily decrease of 1 minute, 50 seconds, and weekly decrease of 12 minutes, 47 seconds.

The shortest day of the month is July 31, with 14 hours, 54 minutes of daylight and the longest day is July 1, with 15 hours, 49 minutes of daylight.

The earliest sunrise of the month at Loring Air Force Base / Limeston is 4:41 AM on July 1 and the latest sunrise is 29 minutes later at 5:10 AM on July 31.

The latest sunset is 8:29 PM on July 1 and the earliest sunset is 25 minutes earlier at 8:04 PM on July 31.

Daylight saving time is observed at Loring Air Force Base / Limeston during 2024, but it neither starts nor ends during July, so the entire month is in standard time.

For reference, on June 20, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 4:36 AM and sets 15 hours, 53 minutes later, at 8:30 PM, while on December 21, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 7:14 AM and sets 8 hours, 31 minutes later, at 3:45 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 July 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 Loring Air Force Base / Limeston is gradually increasing during July, rising from 7% to 10% over the course of the month.

The highest chance of a muggy day during July is 10% on July 29.

For reference, on July 29, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 10% 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 Loring Air Force Base / Limeston is essentially constant during July, remaining within 0.2 miles per hour of 5.6 miles per hour throughout.

For reference, on February 26, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 8.5 miles per hour, while on July 31, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 5.3 miles per hour.

The lowest daily average wind speed during July is 5.3 miles per hour on July 31.

The hourly average wind direction at Loring Air Force Base / Limeston throughout July is predominantly from the west, with a peak proportion of 42% on July 15.

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 Loring Air Force Base / Limeston typically lasts for 4.6 months (141 days), from around May 11 to around September 30, rarely starting before April 24 or after May 27, and rarely ending before September 13 or after October 17.

The month of July at Loring Air Force Base / Limeston 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 Loring Air Force Base / Limeston are rapidly increasing during July, increasing by 490°F, from 557°F to 1,047°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 Loring Air Force Base / Limeston is essentially constant during July, remaining within 0.2 kWh of 6.1 kWh throughout.

The highest average daily incident shortwave solar energy during July is 6.4 kWh on July 2.

For the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Loring Air Force Base / Limeston are 46.950 deg latitude, -67.883 deg longitude, and 735 ft elevation.

The topography within 2 miles of Loring Air Force Base / Limeston contains only modest variations in elevation, with a maximum elevation change of 220 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 700 feet. Within 10 miles contains only modest variations in elevation (732 feet). Within 50 miles contains significant variations in elevation (2,083 feet).

The area within 2 miles of Loring Air Force Base / Limeston is covered by trees (44%), artificial surfaces (37%), and cropland (15%), within 10 miles by trees (52%) and cropland (37%), and within 50 miles by trees (85%).