Buffalo in July: A weather recap
Normal.
That's what the statistics compiled by the National Weather Service office at Buffalo Niagara International Airport show for July. The rainfall total at the airport, 2.80 inches, was actually slightly below normal.
But go a few miles north of Cheektowaga, and you might find a different story.
Widely scattered, but at times intense, showers were a staple the third week of the month, and the Weather Service reports that as much as 6 inches fell in places like Amherst and Clarence.
The monthly average temperature, 71.4 degrees, was just slightly above normal. The airport saw two-thirds of the available sunshine, which is almost exactly normal.
All those hit-and-miss storms led to a bumper crop of thunderstorms. In June and July, the Weather Service reported 17 days with thunder. Normally there might be 11 or 12.
--- John F. Bonfatti
