NRCC Northeast Regional Climate Center  

Climate Impacts - June 2002

Monthly Summary

Temperatures in the Northeast this June were close to normal, only 0.4 degrees on the warm side. However, individually the states varied from 2.5 degrees colder than normal (Maine), to 2.0 degrees warmer than normal (Maryland and West Virginia). All the New England states experienced a cold June while the rest of the region was warmer than normal. Maine's average temperature of 58.3 degrees was the 15th coldest recorded, and 72.8 degrees in Maryland was 12th warmest on the all-time list.

This June the Northeast received 119 percent of the average rainfall totals. Delaware and Maryland were the only two states with a drier than usual June at 88% and 72% of the normal value. Connecticut and New York were more than an inch over the norm and New Hampshire recorded 6.20 inches of precipitation which accounts for 160% of the usual amount. Vermont, which was by for the wettest, measured 7.63 inches making it the 5th wettest June on record for that state. This was the third straight June with above average precipitation in the Northeast.

Monthly Summary of State Temperature and Precipitation Averages.