Ithaca Climate Summary for September 2000

Temperature

• With a monthly average temperature of 59.9 degrees, September 2000 averaged just 0.1 degrees warmer than normal.
• This was the coolest September since 1997.
• The warmest temperature of the month was 86 degrees on the 2nd.
• This was only the third time that the temperature exceeded 85 degrees this year.
• The coldest temperature of the month was 26 degrees on the 29th. This broke the daily record of 28 degrees set in 1942.

Precipitation

• September precipitation totalled 3.36 inches, which represented 95% of normal.
• This was the third consecutive drier-than-normal month, after six consecutive wet months to start the year.
• The January-September 2000 precipitation total of 31.31 inches was 4.81 inches more than normal.