Tuesday is the final day of summer 2015, and in a beach town that lives and dies by the weather, it was a pretty good season. (See O.C. Breaks Record for Beach Tag Revenue, Owners Call Summer a Success.)
No tropical storm came anywhere close to Ocean City during the summer, and the weather got drier through the season.
After a June that saw 8.36 inches of rain (more than 5 inches above normal), August had just 1.25 inches of rain (2.86 inches below normal). Even in July (which saw above-average rainfall), not a single day was categorized by the National Weather Service as “cloudy.” Most of the month’s rain came in the form of brief and heavy thunderstorms.
Here’s the tale of the tape in numbers:
AUGUST
- Highest temp: 93 degrees (8/4/2015)
- Lowest temp: 55 degrees (8/29/2015)
- Avg. high temp: 86.8 degrees (3.1 degrees above normal)
- Avg. low temp: 64.7 degrees (0.5 degrees below normal)
- Rainfall: 1.25 inches (2.86 inches below normal)
- Number of days fair: 23
- Number of days partly cloudy: 6
- Number of days cloudy: 2
JULY
- Highest temp: 94 degrees (7/20/2015)
- Lowest temp: 58 degrees (7/17/2015)
- Avg. high temp: 84.6 degrees (0.9 degrees below normal)
- Avg. low temp: 68.2 degrees (1.3 degrees above normal)
- Rainfall: 6.59 inches (2.87 inches above normal … total include 3.02 inches from July 14-15 alone)
- Number of days fair: 19
- Number of days partly cloudy: 12
- Number of days cloudy: 0
JUNE
- Highest temp: 94 degrees (6/23/2015)
- Lowest temp: 50 degrees (6/7/2015)
- Avg. high temp: 80.5 degrees (0.1 degrees below normal)
- Avg. low temp: 63.3 degrees (2.1 degrees above normal)
- Rainfall: 8.36 inches (5.25 inches above normal)
- Number of days fair: 14
- Number of days partly cloudy: 10
- Number of days cloudy: 6
