Ithaca Climate Summary for September 2005

Temperature

• With an average temperature of 62.9 degrees, the month averaged 3.5 degrees warmer than normal.
• This was the 14th warmest September since records began in 1873.
• The four months of June through September was the warmest such period on record, averaging 4.2 degrees warmer than normal.
• Each of the last four months have been warmer than normal.
• The warmest temperature of the month was 85 degrees on the 14th, 15th and 16th.
• The coldest temperature of the month was 36 degrees on the 30th.

Precipitation

• The September precipitation total was 2.11 inches, which was 55% of normal.
• Of this total, 60% fell on the last five days of the month and another 27% fell on the first day of the month.
• This was the driest September since 1995.
• Year-to-date precipitation has fallen below normal, as the total of 26.58 inches at month's end was 1.31 inches below normal.