Weather as Recorded at the UMass Cranberry Station:
East Wareham
Prepared by Peter Jeranyama
June had below average sunshine hours with about average temperature and slightly below average rainfall. The mean temperature for the month was 65 degrees, 0.55 degrees below average. Maximum temperature was 88 degrees on the 30th; a minimum temperature of 47 degrees was recorded on the 4th. Daytime high temperatures averaged 83 degrees, 3.4 degrees above the norm. Evening low temperatures averaged 65 degrees, 1.6 degree above the norm.
Sunshine average was 51% of the possible sunshine recorded. This is 4 percentage points below the long-term average for June sunshine recorded at the Blue Hills Observatory. Three days were rated as sunny (90% or greater of possible) with 3 days having no sunshine in the month and 2 days with 1% sunshine.
Precipitation totaled 3.59 inches, which is 0.18 inches below the 30-year average. We had measurable precipitation on 7 days, with 6 of those days having measurable precipitation of 0.10 inches or greater. The largest 24-hour rainfall was 1.44 inches on the 29th. Year-to-date rainfall for 2018 now stands at 34.33 inches, 9.17 inches above average.
The first half of 2018 has been very wet with rainfall above the long-term average for the period. The rainfall for the first half was 2.45 inches above 2017 for the same period. The winter temperature (December to February) was 2.66 degrees warmer than the average while the spring months (March to May) were slightly above the average with 0.36 degrees. Sunshine has been below average for January and May but in other months of the period sunshine has been average or above average.