Middle Tennessee weather for 2007 can be described as nothing short of a rollercoaster.

A new record was set for the coldest temperature late in the Spring. On Easter Sunday, April 8th, we hit 23 degrees. For only the fifth time since 1870, the average temperature in April was colder than March.

But meteorologists will remember 2007 for the August heat.

“For August, I think there’s something like two, two-and-a-half pages of records that we did break in the month of August.”

Bobby Boyd with the National Weather Service says the average temperature was nine degrees above normal and 3.6 degrees higher than the all-time high. 15 days say temperatures soar above 100-degrees, making it the most triple-digit days in a single month in 137 years of record keeping. We also tied the all-time high of 106-degrees, and that’s for any month. A warm fall will likely put this year 2nd warmest on record.

Above normal rainfall in October derailed any chance of having the driest year on record, despite serious droughts through the first nine months of the year. It will likely be the driest since 1988.

Boyd says to expect the pattern of rainfall to continue but also mind temperatures will remain through the winter was well.