Ithaca Climate Summary for July 1997

Temperature

• With an average temperature of 67.3 degrees, the month of July was 1.3 degrees cooler than normal.
• This July was 0.3 degrees warmer than last July, but significantly cooler than the Julys of 1993 through 1995.
• The temperature reached 90 degrees on two days-the 15th and 17th. The warmest reading was 93 degrees on the 15th.
• The coldest temperature of the month was 44 degrees on the 20th and 30th.

Precipitation

• July rainfall totalled 2.89 inches, which is 84% of normal.
• Of this total, 60% or 1.76 inches fell during the first 10 days of the month.
• During the last 3 weeks of the month, only 4 days had measurable rainfall and only one of these days had more than a quarter inch.
• The annual precipitation deficit at the end of the month was 3.84 inches, which represents 80% of normal.
• This year¹s January-July precipitation total was over 9 inches less than the amount received through this point last year.