Weather summary for Fairhaven, Massachusetts/May 1996
TEMPERATURE--
Mean: 56.0F (departure: minus 1.6 deg.)
Average high: 66.8F
Average low: 45.3F
Month's high: 89F on 20th
Month's low: 34F on 7th
PRECIPITATION--
Month's total: 3.43" (departure: minus 0.01")
Year's total: 21.84" (departure: plus 3.36")
Max 24hr. total: 1.27" on 30th
Days with 0.01" or more: 13
Days with 1.00" or more: 1
Month's snow: 0.0" (departure: minus 0.1")
Season's snow: 80.7" (departure: plus 45.8")
BAROMETER--
High: 30.52" on 7th
Low: 29.38" on 12th
MISCELLANEOUS--
Days with thunder: 1 (22nd)
Days with fog: 12
High wind gust: 31 mph on 21st
Comments: Cool weather continues-May marks the 7th consecutive
month with below normal temperatures..... Record temperatures
this month-record lows for date: 34deg. on the 7th, 38 deg.
on the 13th, 35 deg. on the 14th; record highs for date: 89 deg.
on the 20th, 84 deg. on the 21st (temp. records kept since 1974)....
Hot, hazy, humid mid-summer weather 20th-23rd.... The severe
thunderstorm that swept through the Brockton area on the 21st
brought gusty winds and no precip. here. Tragically the storm
did take the life of a teenaged boy whose raft was overturned in
New Bedford harbor..... SPRING SEASON temperature averaged 45.8F
(2.2 deg. below normal), precip. total 12.52" (1.69"
above normal) and snow total 23.7" (15.7" above normal).
Regards--Dennis