The Northeast's three-month summer season (June through August) saw record-setting amounts of rainfall over parts of New England. Vermont alone received an excess of 6.24 inches of rain, or 152 percent of normal (the 30-year average from 1961-1990) for the three-month period, making it the wettest summer in the state this century.

According to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University, Burlington, Vt., had its wettest summer on record, with 24.78 inches of rain beating the previous record 22.74 inches during the summer of 1892. With 15.26 inches of rain, New Hampshire reported its ninth wettest summer on record, and nature dropped 14.42 inches of rain on Rhode Island to give the state its 12th wettest summer.

In the 12-state Northeast region, summer saw 12.73 inches of rain, or 109 percent of normal. The Northeast's August precipitation of only 3.06 inches was 79 percent of normal, making it the region's 24th driest August on record.

"In some places it was wetter than normal, in other places drier, but everything this summer seems to have balanced out to very close to normal," says Keith Eggleston, a climatologist at the center.

Delaware and Maryland both reported over three-inch deficits of rain for the summer season. This represented just 71 percent of the normal rainfall for each state. For Maryland, it was the eighth driest summer on record and for Delaware, it was the 16th driest summer in the last 104 years.

During August, Maryland received 1.82 inches of rain, 45 percent of the state's normal rainfall, making it the seventh driest August there in 104 years.

New Weather Records

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