Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Edgartown, MA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Edgartown, MA, in Edgartown at 30 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 80°F and low of 64°F; January is the coolest, at 40°F and 26°F. March and December are the wettest at 4.8 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 2.6 inches; the year adds up to 47.6 inches over 79 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 47% of the year's precipitation (22.4 of 47.6 inches); the other six months are wetter. September has brought the most of the 66 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (21); a normal September there has highs of 74°F and 3.9 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 2 days a year, almost all from July. Lows fall below freezing on about 96 nights a year. Snowfall averages 25.3 inches a year, most of it in January. That 47.6 inches is more than at 21 of the 65 Massachusetts stations used on this site (32%). Vineyard Haven, 7 miles northwest, has its own station (Vineyard Haven Airport, MA): 42.3 inches a year, 5.3 less than here, and a July average high of 79°F against 80°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Woods Hole, MA, 13 miles northwest, averaged 74°F in August and 36°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Woods Hole tide gauge, 13 miles from Edgartown, has risen 1.24 ± 0.03 inches per decade from 1932 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 12.4 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 73 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 23 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Edgartown: 11 thunderstorm wind reports, 9 floods, 2 lightning strikes and 1 heavy rain event. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $176,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on August 8, 1999.

Flood insurance policyholders in Edgartown's ZIP code 02539 have filed 51 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $645,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from The "Halloween" Storm in 1991: 16 claims (31% of all) and $302,000. 69% 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, 130 have fewer than Edgartown.