When you subtract out the sketchy 1870s data, this July winds up tied at #4 at CON. And yes, the SNE sites are more in the 10-15 range after yesterday.
No one is realistically claiming it was top 5 down there at the big climo sites…but it was still a very hot and humid month. I know there’s probably no skill involved, but DIT still made the call in June and, for all intents and purposes, the theme of the month matched his call. And yes, some sites in the region were top 5 or top 10.