Three people walk together across the Walnut Street Bridge as the sun sets.Boy, that was a cold month.
Well, not cold, actually. But it was cool, kind of, at least for July.
The average temperature in Chattanooga last month was 77.5 degrees, according to the National Weather Service’s Morristown, Tenn., office. Last July, the average temperature was 77.9 degrees.
That’s not a big drop. But since 1879, this was Chattanooga’s 30th-coldest July. Just on Wednesday night, the temperature here dipped to 54 degrees, the coldest point this month.
The weather in Chattanooga reflects a bigger picture. Temperatures have been down all over the eastern United States. Meteorologists reported record-setting lows in parts of Georgia and Alabama this month. And in Saranac Lake, N.Y., the temperature even dropped to 37 degrees.