Highlights

August's mean monthly temperature for Barrow was 38.1°F, 0.9°F below normal. The highest temperature for the month was 52°F, occurring on both the 2^nd and the 25^th. The coldest was 26°F on the 20^th.

While the 1.69" of precipitation measured for the month was 0.64" above normal; snowfall was a slight 0.1" below normal, with 0.8" recorded. On the 25^th, the 0.55" of precipitation measured broke the old record for that day by 0.10" set back in 1946. The average wind speed was 12.4 mph, while the highest was 49 mph, from a westerly direction on the 27^th.