{"id":2045,"date":"2014-05-14T10:33:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T16:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2014-05-14T12:47:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T18:47:37","slug":"billings-closing-in-on-longest-cool-streak-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2014\/05\/billings-closing-in-on-longest-cool-streak-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Billings closing in on longest cool streak ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2046\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 336px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard wp-image-2046 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/hold-on-pard-1-of-1.jpg\" alt=\"Hat\" width=\"336\" height=\"578\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hold onto your hats, Billingsites. In less than two weeks, we could have a new record for consecutive days below 75 degrees.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So it wasn\u2019t bad enough that we just endured the<a href=\"http:\/\/billingsgazette.com\/news\/local\/billings-zooms-past-previous-snowfall-record-set-in\/article_18f37f9c-c993-56ec-974d-86c82e6205e8.html\"> snowiest winter<\/a> in the history of Billings.<\/p>\n<p>Now we learn that we are closing in on the longest streak of sub-75-degree days in our history as well.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we could do it a couple more weeks, we could get to the top spot,\u201d said Joe Lester, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Billings. The question is whether that\u2019s a record anyone around here really wishes to break.<\/p>\n<p>According to the weather service, the record was set 20 years ago, in 1994-95, when the streak reached 243 days. It hit 75 on Sept. 28, 1994, and did not crack the barrier again until May 29, 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to 2013-14. The last time we hit 75 or above was Sept. 24, making today (Wednesday) the 232nd consecutive day of below 75-degree weather.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve actually got a pretty good streak going,\u201d Lester said, once again assuming an attitude of professional pride, rather than one of community-mindedness.<\/p>\n<p>All these records date back to 1934, by the way. Lester said it appears we\u2019ll be in the low 70s at the end of this week before cooling off a bit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would guess we\u2019re not going to hit 75 in the next week,\u201d he said. \u201cBeyond that, it\u2019s too hard to say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To break the record, we\u2019d have to stay under 75 degrees until May 26. If all that sounds slightly depressing, keep in mind that while this winter was the snowiest ever, it wasn\u2019t even close to the coldest.<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday, according to the weather service, the average temperature since Sept. 25 has been 34.5 degrees. That\u2019s 2.7 degrees below normal, but it ranks as only the 19th coolest winter on record.<\/p>\n<p>Also, be careful what you wish for. Last year, the first time the thermometer cracked 90 degrees was on May 12, when it hit 91, and last May 13 it was 94 degrees. Also keep in mind that there were 17 days of temperatures at 90 degrees or above last July, and 17 more days in August.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. Maybe a record cool streak wouldn\u2019t be so bad.<\/p>\n<div class=\"well\"><div class=\"dfad dfad_pos_1 dfad_first\" id=\"_ad_652\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/mjhWkW\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/201703_capeair_variable.jpg\" alt=\"CapreAir_Variable\" width=\"510\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18069\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it wasn\u2019t bad enough that we just endured the snowiest winter in the history of Billings. Now we learn that we are closing in on the longest streak of sub-75-degree days in our history as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[655,653,654],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-billings","tag-joe-lester","tag-national-weather-service","tag-winter","prominence-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}