Ithaca Climate Summary for July 1996

Temperature

• The month of July averaged 1.6 degrees cooler than normal and 4.9 degrees cooler than the same month a year ago.
• This was the coolest July since 1992 and the second coolest in the last 11 years.
• Eight of the last nine months have been cooler than normal.
• There were no extremely hot temperatures during July. The warmest reading was 85 degrees on the 18th.
• The coldest temperature of the month was 45 degrees on 28th.

Precipitation

• Precipitation for the month totalled 2.81 inches, which was 0.64 inches less than or 81% of the monthly normal.
• The month was wetter than the last 3 Julys (1993-95), but drier than each of the 9 years before that (1984-92).
• The greatest one-day amount was 0.45 inches for the 24 hours ending on the morning of the 4th.