Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
By RALPH ANSAMI
Ironwood — August was warm and wet in Ironwood, with only two days with temperatures lower than 50 degrees.
The weather wrap-up for the month from Kevin Crupi, of the National Weather Service office in Marquette, notes that a typical August would include nine days with readings under 50.
A southwest flow of air prevailed for the month, sending in all of that warmth.
The 4.49 inches of rain that fell on Ironwood in August was 1.33 percent of the normal total.
The June through August 2016 period is now the 10th wettest summer in Ironwood since 1901, Crupi said.
For the period from Sept. 1, 2015, through Aug. 31, 2016, a total of 51.44 inches of precipitation has fallen at Ironwood, a record high total for September through August and almost 150 percent above normal.
The average temperature for August was 66.3 degrees, compared to the norm of 64.1.
There were no 90-degree days in August in Ironwood, with the high being 86 on Aug. 3.
Aug. 20 set a daily rainfall record with 2.06 inches. In 1980, 2,03 inches fell on the same day.
Statistics for the Gogebic-Iron Wastewater Treatment Plant cooperative observer site are based on records which began in July 1901. Normals used are for the period 1981 through 2010.
