Soggy June in Ironwood produced few warm days

IRONWOOD — The National Weather Service office in Marquette has logged some soggy statistics about June in Ironwood.

The 5.4 inches of rain for the month was 150 percent above normal, according to Kevin Crupi, of the Marquette NWS office.

It was also a cool month, with the average temperature of 60.2 coming in at 1.1 degrees under the long-term average.

The high temperature reached above 80 only three days during the entire month. It was 81 on June 27 and June 28. The normal for June is eight days above 80 in Ironwood.

Crupi said the jet stream was located farther south than normal, and that resulted in cooler Canadian air dominating the weather pattern here.

The low reading for the month was 35 degrees on June 1.

A daily record for precipitation over the past 114 years was set on June 29 at 1.25 inches. The former record for that day was 1.2 inches in 1971.

The wet summer is continuing into July, as the .58 inch of rain that fell for the 24-hour period to 7 a.m. Monday brought the month’s total to 2.38 inches, compared to the long-term average of 1.86 inches.

The average temperature for July near mid-month stands at 63.5 degrees, compared to the 114-year average of 65.7.

Elsewhere, most of the Upper Peninsula was drier than normal.

The highest temperature in June in the U.P. was 84 at Pelkie, in Baraga County, on June 27. The low was 21 degrees in Covington, in Baarga County, on June 1.

Many locations in the U.P. recorded no readings in the 80s for the entire month.

Ironwood received the most rain in the U.P. for the month.

Copper Harbor recorded only 1.77 inches of precipitation, the lowest total.