Ithaca Climate Summary for June 1997

Temperature

• With an average temperature of 65.1 degrees, the month of June was 1.2 degrees warmer than normal.
• This June, however, was the coolest in the last four years.
• The first half of the month averaged a degree cooler than normal, but the second half of the month was more than three degrees warmer than normal.
• The warmest reading of the month was 89 degrees on the 25th.
• The coldest temperature of the month was 40 degrees on the 15th.

Precipitation

• June ended the string of consecutive months with drier than normal weather at five, as 3.90 inches of rain fell during the month (0.13 inches more than normal).
• This monthly accumulation was rather deceiving, since 0.82 inches of the monthly total fell between 8am on May 31 and 8am on June 1.
• The annual deficit was reduced to 3.28 inches, which represents 80% of normal.
• The greatest one-day amount was 1.06 inches on the 26th. Besides the 0.82 inches recorded on the 1st, no other days had reports of over a half inch.