Ithaca Climate Highlights for July 1995

Temperature

• The average temperature for July was 71.9 degrees. This was 3.3 degrees warmer than normal and the warmest July since 1955.
• There were 5 days with a temperature of 90 degrees or higher. The hottest dayof these was the 14th with a high of 97 degrees. That was a new record high for the date (old record was 94 degrees set in 1954). The temperature of 95 degrees recorded the next day was also a new record for that date (old record 92 degrees in 1955).
• The coldest temperature of the month was 47 degrees on the 3rd.
  
  

Precipitation

• The July precipitation total was 2.62 inches, which is 76% of normal.
• Two-thirds of this total came on just two days (17th and 24th).
• The first half of the month was particularly dry with no precipitation events of more than 0.1 inch between the 2nd and the 16th.
• This was the sixth month in a row with below normal precipitation, yielding a six-month deficit of 5.26 inches. This was the driest such period since 1978.