Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Bridgewater, MA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Bridgewater, MA, 2 miles southeast of Bridgewater at 40 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 83°F and low of 60°F; January is the coolest, at 38°F and 17°F. March is the wettest at 5.2 inches of precipitation on average and August the driest at 2.7 inches; the year adds up to 51.2 inches over 89 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 49% of the year's precipitation (25.1 of 51.2 inches); the other six months are wetter. September has brought the most of the 56 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (20); a normal September there has highs of 74°F and 4.3 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 10 days a year, almost all from June to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 142 nights a year. That 51.2 inches is more than at 52 of the 65 Massachusetts stations used on this site (80%). East Bridgewater, 4 miles north, has its own station (Brockton, MA): 50.2 inches a year, 1.0 less than here, and a July average high of 84°F against 83°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Fall River, MA, 22 miles southwest, averaged 75°F in July and 38°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Providence tide gauge, 25 miles from Bridgewater, has risen 1.04 ± 0.05 inches per decade from 1938 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 10.4 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 58 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 160 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Bridgewater: 116 thunderstorm wind reports, 25 floods, 12 lightning strikes and 7 flash floods. They killed 0 people and injured 61, and the NWS estimated $13.5 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 104 mph, on May 21, 1996. Of the 339 Massachusetts cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 69 have had fewer than Bridgewater.

Flood insurance policyholders in Bridgewater's ZIP code 02324 have filed 31 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $95,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from March 2010 Nor'easter in 2010: 10 claims (32% of all) and $32,000. 52% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 229 Massachusetts cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 94 have fewer than Bridgewater.