Ithaca Climate Summary for April 1996

Temperature

• The month of April averaged 1.7 degrees colder than normal.
• This was the 6th consecutive month with below normal temperatures.
• The month's warmest temperature was 78 degrees on the 22nd.
• The coldest temperature of the month was 16 degrees on 9th.

Precipitation

• Precipitation for the month totalled 5.11 inches, which was 176% of normal.
• This was more than the total for February, March and April of 1995 combined.
• This was the 5th wettest April since records began in 1879.
• There was 16 days with measurable precipitation, plus 10 days with a trace, leaving just 4 days with no precipitation at all.

Snowfall

• The April snowfall total was 8.8 inches, which was 4.9 inches above normal.
• This was the 13th snowiest April in the last 118 years and the snowiest since April 1983.
• The seasonal snowfall total at the end of the month was 105.9 inches, which was 39 inches more than normal.
• This seasonal total was the fourth highest seasonal snowfall total on record (only exceeded by 1993-94, 1977-78 and 1957-58).
• Snowfall totals for surrounding communities included 9.5 inches in Freeville and 9.1 inches in Groton.