Ithaca Climate Summary for March 1995

Temperature

• The average temperature for March was 35.8 degrees. This was 2.9 degrees warmer than normal and the warmest March since 1990.
• The warmest temperature of the month was 70 degrees on the 13th.
• The coldest temperature occurred on the 3rd, when the temperature fell to 6 degrees.
  
  

Precipitation

• The March precipitation total was 1.10 inches. This was less than half (48% of) the March normal.
• This was the 10th driest March since records began in 1879.
• The heaviest precipitation fell on the 9th - 0.63 inches.
  
  

Snowfall

• The monthly snowfall total was 6.8 inches. The March normal is 10.2 inches.
• All this snow came from just 2 events - 6 inches on the 9th and 0.8 inches on the 2nd.
• This amount looks especially sparse when compared to the last two Marches, which each had over 30 inches of snow.
• The seasonal total of 38.6 inches is two feet (24.4 inches) below normal.
• This accumulation is the least since the winter of 1982-83 when only 32.7 inches had fallen through the end of March. That year, however, the second half of April brought an additional 14.5 inches of snow.
• If there is no additional snowfall this winter, it will be the least snowiest winter since comparable records began in the mid-1940's.