The Summer was Cooler and Wetter Than Normal
The National Weather Service has issued its climate report for the summer of 2014 and it shows the three-month period ended up being a little cooler and wetter than normal.
The average temperature for June through August was 69.4-degrees, which is a half-degrees below normal. The highest temperature recorded at the Rochester airport during that span was 87-degrees on August 24th. That tied 1993 and 1998 for the lowest high temperature reading during the summer period in Rochester. It was also only the seventh summer on record in Rochester during which the mercury failed to reach 90-degrees.
The coldest temperature reading of the summer was 47-degrees on June 13th. Rochester saw 14.09 inches of precipitation in June, July, and August. That was only about a third of an inch higher than normal. The wettest day of the summer was June 16th, when the city saw 1.34 inches of rain.
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