The month of June will most certainly be remembered for the smoke from the Canadian wildfires which affected southwestern Connecticut. The smoke was thick and reached "very unhealthy" levels during the first week of June. Indications are that the smoke will return intermittently through the foreseeable future.
June was much cooler and drier than normal across southwestern Connecticut. In fact, there were only three days with a high temperature of at least 80 degrees, and the warmest temperature of 81 degrees happened twice, June 2 and June 28.
Twenty days featured cooler-than-normal temperatures at Bridgeport, including a nine-day stretch from June 3 through June 11 and a six-day stretch from June 18 through June 23.
Six days delivered a high temperature only in the 60s, including a high temperature of 69 degrees on June 21, which was the first day of Summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
The coolest temperature was 46 degrees, which occurred the morning of June 4.
The average monthly temperature at the Bridgeport climate station was 66.9 degrees, which is 2.7 degrees below normal. It marked the second consecutive cooler-than-normal month at Bridgeport.
The monthly precipitation total of 1.53" was more than two inches below normal (3.77"). There were six days with at least one-tenth of an inch of rain and 11 days with at least one-hundredth of an inch of rain. Believe it or not, there were no days which featured at least a half-inch of rain. Nineteen of the 30 days did not have any measured rain.
As far as sky conditions are concerned, 10 days (33%) were clear, 16 were partly cloudy, and four were mostly cloudy.
Paul
