SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) – Meteorological summer has come to an end, and we ended up with another drier than average month but a fairly seasonable one temperature-wise. We dive into the numbers below…

Dry…but as dry as July?

Coming on the heels of the sixteenth driest July on record in Syracuse, we did end up a bit below average in terms of rainfall for the month of August. However, our total of 3.08 inches of rain was well over the 1.90 inches we saw in July thanks in large part to the 20th and 24th of the month when just about 2 inches of water fell those two days! Without those two days, we would have been even drier than July.

With a couple of dry stretches, there was measurable precipitation on only nine days in August in Syracuse. This has led to abnormally dry conditions for part

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