Ithaca Climate Summary for August 1998

Temperature

• With an average temperature of 69.5 degrees, the month of August 1998 averaged 2.6 degrees warmer than normal.
• This was the warmest August since 1995 and was 2.8 degrees warmer than last August.
• Eight of the last nine months have had a monthly temperature that averaged warmer than normal.
• The warmest temperature of the month was 87 degrees on both the 8th and 9th.
• The coldest temperature of the month was 41 degrees on the 20th.

Precipitation

• August precipitation totalled 1.99 inches, which was 58% of normal.
• This was the third of the last nine months that was drier than normal.
• This was the driest August since 1995 and the second driest in the last twenty-five years.
• From July 10th through the August 10th, only 0.41 inches of rain fell and only two days recorded more than 0.01 inch.
• The year-to-date precipitation total of 26.34 inches was 3.37 inches greater than normal.