The June 2026 Edition
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June ran about as warm as usual and came in wet, and Five Mile Creek rose over the high water line twice.
This edition was put together on September 15, 2026, after the month was over, from the records as they stood. Its calls were worked out by the same rule as every other month, from what was on file before each month began.
June along the creek
The average of the highs and lows came to 77.6 degrees, 0.7 degrees cooler than normal for June.
Our station measured 10.37 inches of rain, against a normal of 4.78 at the Birmingham airport. The wettest day was June 20, with 4.83 inches.
At the Birmingham airport, whose record goes back to 1930, it was the seventh wettest June on the books.
Weather logIt reached the high water line, 3.5 feet at Republic, on five days, in two separate rises.
Its highest reading, 8.47 feet on June 20, was higher than the 4.22 feet the creek reaches in a typical June since 2008.
The high water line is the one the masthead uses. It is not a flood stage, because this gauge does not have one.
Creek log18 species were recorded along the lower creek for the first time on file, among them Alabama Map Turtle, Banded Tussock Moth, and Pale-bordered Field Cockroach.
Nature WatchHow the calls did
Set against the same month in 1991 to 2020 at the Birmingham airport, June finished in the warm third for temperature and the wet third for rain.
NOAA's outlook, issued May 31, had no lean either way on temperature, so there was nothing to score.
On rain it leaned slightly toward a wetter than normal month, and that was right too.
FIVEMILE made no call for June, because the record had no clear lean after a middle May.
Since August 2014, NOAA's temperature outlook for these three towns has been right 62 times and missed 33 times, with no lean 46 times. FIVEMILE has not made a call yet since January 2026. A call made by guessing would be right about one time in three.
July ahead
NOAA's Climate Prediction Center gives these three towns a 40 percent chance of a warmer than normal July, and no lean either way on rain.
FIVEMILE's call is a warmer than normal July. After a warm June, July has come in warm in 14 of 26 years at the airport.
FIVEMILE does not call rain. In the airport record a wet month is followed by a wet one no more often than chance would have it.
Normal highs at the Birmingham airport rise from 90 to 91 degrees over July, and normal rain for the month is 5.42 inches.
The days lose 32 minutes of daylight over July, from 14 hours and 21 minutes on the 1st to 13 hours and 49 minutes on the 31st.
AlmanacDates in July
Calendar →Gardendale Farmers Market
Jefferson County tornado siren test
Graysville City Council meeting
Brookside Town Council meeting
Cardiff City Council meeting
Graysville City Council meeting
Back to school sales tax holiday
Perseid meteor shower begins building
Where this comes from The month's weather is the FIVEMILE weather station. Normals, ranks, records and the thirds a month is scored in are the official National Weather Service record kept at the Birmingham airport since 1930, set against 1991 to 2020. The creek is the USGS gauge on Fivemile Creek near Republic. The outlook is the monthly outlook from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, read at the middle of the three towns. The stories are the ones the news page ran, the sightings are iNaturalist's research grade records, and the dates are the calendar's. FIVEMILE's call is a rule written down in advance: it looks at how the month just gone finished and at what followed every earlier year that started the same way. Every sentence here was written ahead of time and filled in from those records, and no edition is changed after it runs.