September in Review: Slightly Warmer and Wetter Than Normal

By Frank Macek

CLEVELAND -- The month of September turned out to be slightly warmer and wetter than normal for 2009.

For the 30 day period, the National Weather Service in Cleveland says the area wound up a little more than two degrees warmer than the normal average for the month of September.

The highest temperature reached 81 degrees on both the 14th and 20th. The average daily high was 73.8 degrees.

The chilliest temperature recorded was 41 on the final day of the month. The average daily low was 57.0 degrees.

The area saw near normal amounts of precipitation for September with 3.84 inches of rain filling the gauge at the airport. That figure was .07 inches wetter than usual.

The greatest 24 hour rain total occured between September 29th and 30th when .96 inches of rain fell.

Since January 1st, our rainfall total tally stood at 27.94 inches of rainfall through the end of September, or 1.51 inches drier than the normal average of 29.45"

Elsewhere across northern Ohio, only Mansfield came close to record setting lows when the mercury fell to 43 degrees on September 1st. That tied a record low set at Lahm Airport in 1935.

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