Weather Extremes*

Highest Temperature: 100.5° July 21, 1991 & July 22, 1957
Lowest Temperature: -23.0° January 22, 1961
Average Yearly Temperature: 50.33°
Coldest Year: 1967 (Average Temperature 47.5°)
Warmest Year: 2006 (Average Temperature 53.2°)
Greatest Daily Temperature Range: 56.5°
Least Daily Temperature Range: 0.5°
Average Annual Precipitation: 48.90"
Maximum Annual Precipitation: 68.66" in 1989
Minimum Annual Precipitation: 34.35" in 1965
Maximum Monthly Precipitation: 22.14" in October 2005
Minimum Monthly Precipitation: Trace in June, 1949-0.18" October 1963
Maximum Daily Precipitation: 9.02" Sept 10-11, 1954-Hurricane Edna 9.00" October 14, 2005
Maximum Hourly Rainfall: 2.10" September 10-11, 1954-Hurricane Edna
Maximum Seasonal Snowfall: 90.8" 1995-96
Minimum Seasonal Snowfall: 4.5" 1997-98
Maximum Monthly Snowfall: 35.7" January 2011
Maximum Dail Snowfall 19.0" February 1978
Maximum Daily Snowfall, Single Storm: 26.3" December 2009
Longest Period Snow Cover: 55 days(December 26, 1947-February 18, 1948
Absolute First Day of Snowfall: October 17th
Absolute Last Day of Snowfall: April 27th
Peak Wind Speed: 125 mph-August 31, 1954-Hurricane Carol
Lowest Barometric Pressure: 28.375" September 12, 1960-Hurricane Donna

Measured at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY from 1949 to 2011.

Long Island Monthly Averages
Mean Temperature
Precipitation
Snowfall
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January
February		29.41
30.84		38
37.7		19.5
20.3
sk
4.05"
3.73"
sk
8.90"
10.08"

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