Monthly weather summary for Fairhaven, Massachusetts/August 1996

TEMPERATURE--
Mean: 69.4F (departure: minus 1.2 deg.)
Average high: 76.7F (departure: minus 2.5 deg.)
Average low: 61.9F (departure: none)
Month's high: 82F on 22nd, 26th, 27th
Month's low: 55F on 20th

PRECIPITATION--
Month's total: 4.39" (departure: plus 0.45")
Year's total: 32.18" (departure: plus 3.85")
Max. 24hr. total: 1.52" on 28th
Days with 0.01" or more: 9
Days with 1.00" or more: 2

BAROMETER--
High 30.36" on 20th
Low 29.89" on 1st, 10th

MISCELLANEOUS--
Days with thunder: 3
Days with fog: 20
High wind gust: 21 mph on 1st

Comments: Another cooler than normal month, the 10th month in a
row with below average temperatures. The month averaged below normal because the daily high averaged 2.5 deg. below normal, the daily low averaged exactly normal. This made for a very comfortable month... The month's high temperature was only 82F. This ties my 23 year record for the lowest high temperature for August. August, 1992's high was also 82F...No daily temp. records were set this August... Rather wet month-about a half an inch above normal...10 days in a row with fog-July 31 to August 9...Month's low barometer of 29.89" not that low...Meteorological summer is now over--Average temp. of 68.4F was 2.2 deg below normal;Precip. total was 10.34", 0.49" above normal.

Regards--Dennis