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Northeast Regional Climate Center |
Temperatures across the region averaged out to about normal this September. The departure for the Northeast as a whole was only 0.2 degrees. But that average doesn't tell the whole story this time around. New York and New England were warmer than normal, and the rest of the region was below normal. The northern states, with the exceptions of New York and Connecticut, were a degree or more above the normal temperature. Maine was the warmest relative to its state records with a temperature departure of 2.4 degrees. The states from Pennsylvania south were all more than a degree below normal (with the exception of New Jersey).
The rainfall totals in the Northeast fell just short of normal. Pennsylvania and the three northern New England states were the only states which eclipsed their monthly averages, and none of these by more than a half inch. The rest of the region was below normal. Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey were all more than an inch drier than normal. Delaware recorded only 55% of its normal rain total. Seven of the last ten Septembers (including this year) have been drier than normal.
Monthly Summary of State Temperature and Precipitation Averages.