TEMPERATURE--
Mean: 63.3F (departure: minus 0.1 deg.)
Average high: 70.5F
Average low: 56.2F
Month's high: 84F on 3rd
Month's low: 43F on 26th

PRECIPITATION--
Month's total: 11.18" (departure: plus 7.81")
Year's total: 43.36" (departure: plus 11.66")
Max. 24hr. total: 3.79" on 8th-9th
Days with 0.01" or more: 13
Days with 1.00" or more: 3

BAROMETER--
Month's high: 30.47" on 27th
Month's low: 29.33" on 18th

MISCELLANEOUS--
Days with thunder: 2
Days with fog: 15
High wind gust: 44 mph on 2nd

Comments: Wet and windy can best describe the weather here in September. The month opened up with Hurricane Edouard skirting the area. Wind gusts to 44 mph and precip. total of 2.14" were recorded here on the 2nd. Nantucket reported a gust to 90 mph, Martha' Vineyard-64 mph, Falmouth -69 mph, and New Bedford-51 mph...On the 8th the remnants of Hurricane Fran dumped 3.79" of rain here...On the 17th-18th the remnants/redevelopment of Hurricane Fausto soaked us with another 3.58" of rain with wind gusts to 27 mph...The 1996 yearly precip. total of 43.36" already surpasses the 1995 total of 41.63"...Temperatures were rather moderate. No daily records were set for the entire month.

Correction: In the the summary for August I reported the average temper- ature for the summer season as being 2.2 deg. below normal. The summer season actually averaged 1.2 deg below normal.

Regards--Dennis