Ithaca Climate Highlights for September 1995

September Temperature

• The average temperature for September was 57.8 degrees. This was 2.0 degrees cooler than normal.
• It was the coolest September since 1988.
• The month's hottest temperature was 85 degrees achieved on the 7th.
• The coldest temperature of the month was 31 degrees and was recorded on three days-the 19th, 24th and 29th. Frost was also reported at many locations on the 11th, but the temperature at the weather station that morning was 33 degrees.
• The first freezing temperature of the fall occurred on the 19th. This was nine days earlier than normal. This temperature also tied a record low for that date (set in 1959).

September Precipitation

• September precipitation totalled 1.94 inches, which is 55% of normal.
• This was the driest September since 1988.
• It rained on 15 of the month's 30 days. The long-term September average is 13 days. Amounts were quite light, however, with only one day receiving more than a half-inch.
• This was the eighth month in a row with below normal precipitation, yielding a year-to-date deficit of 8.32 inches. This trails only 1969 as the driest January-September since records began in 1880.