Ithaca Climate Summary for July 2000

Temperature

• With a monthly average temperature of 65.4 degrees, July 2000 averaged 3.2 degrees cooler than normal.
• This month's departure was the largest negative departure for any month since March 1999.
• Maximum temperatures during the month averaged 4.2 degrees cooler than normal and minimum temperatures averaged 2.2 degrees cooler than normal.
• This July was the coolest since July 1965.
• The warmest temperature of the month was 83 degrees on the 14th.
• This was the first time on record that the temperature has failed to reach 84 degrees during the month of July.
• The coldest temperature of the month was 44 degrees on the 8th.

Precipitation

• July precipitation totalled 2.90 inches, which represented 84% of normal.
• This was the year's first drier-than-normal month.
• There were only 6 days this month with measurable precipitation, about half of normal.
• There was a string of 13 consecutive days (18th-30th) with no measurable precipitation.
• The January-July precipitation total of 26.24 inches was 6.71 inches more than normal and the 8th wettest January-July total on record.