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Northeast Regional Climate Center |
Temperatures across the Northeast averaged 1.4 degrees above normal. Both Maine and Vermont were cooler than normal with temperature depatures of -0.4 and -0.2 degrees. Rhode Island was 2.0 degrees above normal - the seventh warmest July on record for that state. Massachusetts and New Hampshire were both 0.9 degrees above normal, and the remaining states in the region were all more than a degree above normal.
July was drier than normal in the Northeast. Only 70 percent of the normal precipitation was recorded, making it the driest July since 1993. West Virginia and Maine were the only wetter than normal states with 112 percent and 104 precent of their average totals. Rhode Island recieved only 0.89 inches of precipitation, or 27 percent of normal, making it the driest state for July. This was the 3rd driest July on record for Rhode Island. New York and New Hampshire experienced their 2nd and 3rd driest Julys respectively. New Hampshire and New Jersey were both under 2 inches of rain on the month which accounts for less than half of their individual state normals. The remainder of the region was between 50-100 percent of normal.
Monthly Summary of State Temperature and Precipitation Averages.