Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit East Taunton, MA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Taunton Municipal Airport, MA, in East Taunton at 43 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 84°F and low of 61°F; January is the coolest, at 39°F and 19°F. March is the wettest at 5.2 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.0 inches; the year adds up to 47.7 inches over 82 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 50% of the year's precipitation (23.8 of 47.7 inches). September has brought the most of the 56 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (19); a normal September there has highs of 75°F and 4.4 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 13 days a year, almost all from June to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 133 nights a year. That 47.7 inches is more than at 23 of the 65 Massachusetts stations used on this site (35%). Lakeville, 4 miles southeast, has its own station (Rochester, MA): 53.6 inches a year, 5.9 more than here, and a July average high of 82°F against 84°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Fall River, MA, 14 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, 20 miles from East Taunton, 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 112 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of East Taunton: 79 thunderstorm wind reports, 20 floods, 7 flash floods and 6 lightning strikes. They killed 0 people and injured 3, and the NWS estimated $9.2 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on August 10, 2012. Of the 339 Massachusetts cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 69 have had fewer than East Taunton.

Flood insurance policyholders in East Taunton's ZIP code 02718 have filed 10 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1989, and were paid $111,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 30% 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, 0 have fewer than East Taunton.