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Summary for February 2023 Highest recorded temp.= 44° on the 17th (Record 66° 1992, 2016 and 2017) Lowest recorded temp.= -20° on the 24th (Record -38° on Feb. 9, 1994) Number of nights of 0° or below temps.= 8 nights (Record 24 nights 2019)...

Summary for January 2023 Highest recorded temp.— 39° on the 27th (Record 65° during January 1981) Lowest recorded temp.— -24° on the 30th (Record -29° during January 1988, 1996 & 2009) Number of days of zero or below temps.— 7 (Record 27...

Summary for 47 Decembers that I have recorded Highest recorded temp.—65° on Dec. 1, 2021 Lowest recorded temp.—  -40° on Dec. 23, 1983 Current average high temp.—  26° Current average low temp.—  5° There was never a 70° day time...

Weather Summary The average precip. for December is now .35 making it the driest month of the year along with January. 26 months of December out of 47 had precip. totals around or below .35. What I’m doing in this publication is to pick eight of...

The average high temp. for December is now 26° figuring in the last 47 years.  The average low is now 5°. Checking through my weather records I’ve found that 31 of these 47 Decembers have fell within these averages.  That leaves 16 Decembers...

Introduction to 47 Decembers December’s average high temp. drops 14° from November’s 40 to a freezing 26°. The low average drops to 5°. Because of the low day time average, just rain as precip. becomes an oddity. (This may not be the case for...

Summary for 47 Novembers that I have recorded Highest recorded temp.: 85° on Nov. 2, 1988 Lowest recorded temp.: -20° on Nov. 27, 1985 Current average high temp.: 40° Current average low temp.: 20° There was only one 80° day in 47 years and...

This week I will finish with the unusual Novembers from the last 47 years. Again the average high temp. for November now is 40° and average low is 20. The precip. average is now .62. 2001: An unusual warm month with the average high temp. at 54° ...

November Summaries Last week I mentioned that November through 47 years is mostly a dry month (.62 average precip.) and temps. in the average range of 40 degrees high during the day time and 20 night time. There are some exceptions though and last...

November is Ipswich’s third driest month at a 47 year average of 0.62. The average high temp. is 40° and low is 20. Freezing night time temps. become common and a few below zero readings are recorded. Snowfall average comes into the picture at 6...

Summary for 47 months of October that I have recorded: Most precip. in a day’s time:  2.26 during October 9, 1982 Highest recorded temp.:  90° on Oct. 6, 1993 Lowest recorded temp.: -5° on Oct. 27, 2020  Current average high temp.=  58...

The average October precip. for Ipswich is currently 1.60. October ranks 7th for amounts of precip. during a year. Snowfall is possible by the end of the month mainly because of freezing night time temps. by this time. Snowfall is rare though...

October temperatures drops off to an average high of 58° and a low of 33°. That’s a drop of 14° from September’s average high and 13° for an average low covering 47 year. Some Octobers have exceeded the average high and these three years...

Summary for 47 months of September that I have recorded: Highest recorded temp.: 105° on Sept. 2, 1983 Lowest recorded temp.: 20° on Sept. 22, 1983 Current average high temp.: 72° Current average low temp.: 46° Number of 100° temps. or higher:...

Precip. info dealing with 47 months of September Average for 47 months of September is currently at 2.04. I have never recorded any measurable snowfall for September. Precip. for September, 2022 seems very low at .11 and it sounds like that there...

Comments on 47 September temperatures 1.The current average high temp. for September is 72°. 2. The current average low temps. for September is 46° 3. There have been only four 100 or plus degree day time temps. recorded in September, two in 1976 &...

Last week I mentioned that by the end of September the chance for frost and an actual killing frost becomes a very big possibility. In looking through my records I did find that most killing frosts occur in October but they do happen at times in...

Summary of 47 months of August that I have recorded: Highest recorded temp.- 106° on Aug. 17, 1976 and 106° on Aug. 15, 1988 Lowest recorded temp.- 35° on Aug. 27, 1982 Current average high temp.- 82° Current average low temp.- 57° Number of...

This week I’ll cover the extreme rainfalls from the previous 47 months of August that I have recorded. The average precip. for these 47 months is currently 2.36 which is the 4th wettest month. The 2.36 average has been exceeded only 20 months out...

The current average high for August is 82°, current low is 57. Last week some of the warmest months of August in the last 47 years were mentioned.  This week I will deal with some of the coolest months. 1992 — Way below normal in average high at...

The average high for Ipswich is currently 82°. There were several years that August has exceeded this average by at least 5°. The following are these months: 1976: Warm month with average high way above at 89° – Four 100° days in the middle of...

The average high temp. for August is still quite high at 82° which currently makes it the second hottest month of a year to the 84 average high of July. The average low is 57°. It isn’t common but temps. in the upper 30s do appear at times as a...

Summary of 47 months of July that I have recorded Highest recorded temp. - 111° on July 15, 2006 Lowest recorded temp. - 38° on July 2, 2017 Current average high temp.- 84° Current average low temp.- 60° Number of 100 or plus days- 34 (8 of...

The average precip. for July for Ipswich is currently 3.18. For July thus far Ipswich is at 4.10 which puts us above average. It would be nice to get 3.18 every July but that doesn’t happen very often as we know. So the average of 3.18 has been...

The average high for July is 84 degrees and low is 60 which makes it the hottest month of a year for Ipswich. It also is the month that has the most 100 plus degree days which is 34 in 47 years. Some hot months in these 47 months of July are as follo...