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August 2025 Summer Thread


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2 minutes ago, Go Kart Mozart said:

It looks like we will end August -2 or thereabouts.

Seems like summers these days are one month of heat, then on to fall.:axe:

I was so tempted to leave out the emoji and get the AWATT crowd all pissed off...

 

This actually may have been a BN month a few decades ago.

Impressive!

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5 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

even more impressive.. orange airport got above 90  6 times at the start of the month.. and is still going to be around -3 for the month 

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Some years Orange airport never hits 90.
 It kills me that it is the only official station in Franklin or Hampshire counties.  It’s not exactly representative of temperatures in W MA.  I think it’s basically Orange, North Adams and Westfield with a massive triangle of area in between,  with no official observations.

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32 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Some years Orange airport never hits 90.
 It kills me that it is the only official station in Franklin or Hampshire counties.  It’s not exactly representative of temperatures in W MA.  I think it’s basically Orange, North Adams and Westfield with a massive triangle of area in between,  with no official observations.

Its departures are probably within reason though… that’s really what the official stations are useful for.  Comparison to previous years.

The temperatures may differ in spots by location, elevation, topography, etc… but the departures are probably comparable.

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4 hours ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Some years Orange airport never hits 90.
 It kills me that it is the only official station in Franklin or Hampshire counties.  It’s not exactly representative of temperatures in W MA.  I think it’s basically Orange, North Adams and Westfield with a massive triangle of area in between,  with no official observations.

Ya i wish we had something up here comparable.. maybe jaffrey?

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10 hours ago, Go Kart Mozart said:

It looks like we will end August -2 or thereabouts.

Seems like summers these days are one month of heat, then on to fall.:axe:

I was so tempted to leave out the emoji and get the AWATT crowd all pissed off...

 

We shall inevitably revisit this post again on Halloween, Christmas and perhaps Valentine’s Day and get a good chuckle out of it. At least the a/cs get a respite for the time being.

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9 hours ago, powderfreak said:

Its departures are probably within reason though… that’s really what the official stations are useful for.  Comparison to previous years.

The temperatures may differ in spots by location, elevation, topography, etc… but the departures are probably comparable.


I agree, but the distance between “official” reference points across the northwestern part of Massachusetts leaves a lot of gaps.

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August 2025:

Avg max:   77.2   +2.4     Hottest: 92 on the 12th, hottest August day.  The avg is 4th warmest.
Avg min:    50.6   -2.4     Coolest: 38 on the 19th.  The avg is 5th coolest.
Mean:        63.9  +0.02

Precip:    1.32"   -2.78   Wettest day:  0.47" on the 25th
Met summer total:  5.29"   -7.55"    Previous low for met summer:  7.24" in 2002

August 2025 featured only our 3rd heat wave, with 91/92/91 on 11-13.  (The others are 90/90/91 on August 13-15, 2002 and 91/91/90 on June 25-27, 2003.)
It had the greatest available sunshine, 71%, of any month here.  (July 2019 with 69% is now 2nd.)
The month also was the first August here with no thunderstorms, and met summer had only 2.  Next lowest is 5 in 2010.
August 2025 also went against the tall minima that's been the usual in recent years, with the 2nd highest average diurnal range of 26.6°, 4.8° AN and tied for 2nd greatest after 1998's 27.8°.
 

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