Ithaca Climate Summary for August 2000

Temperature

• With a monthly average temperature of 66.4 degrees, August 2000 averaged 0.5 degrees cooler than normal.
• This was the second consecutive cooler-than-normal month. This was the first time since October-November 1997 that this has happened.
• Maximum temperatures during the month averaged 1.1 degrees cooler than normal and minimum temperatures averaged 0.1 degrees warmer than normal.
• The warmest temperature of the month was 87 degrees on the 9th.
• This was only the second time that the temperature exceeded 85 degrees this summer (through the end of August).
• The coldest temperature of the month was 39 degrees on the 21st. This tied the record low for the day, which was set in 1934.

Precipitation

• August precipitation totalled 1.71 inches, which represented 50% of normal.
• This was the second consecutive drier-than-normal month, after six consecutive wet months to start the year.
• There two strings during the second half of the month of 7 consecutive days with no measurable precipitation (17th-23rd and 25th-31st). These were separated by 0.54 inches of rain on the 24th.
• The January-August 2000 precipitation total of 27.95 inches was 4.98 inches more than normal.