Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Framingham, MA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Natick, MA, 4 miles east of Framingham at 180 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 82°F and low of 62°F; January is the coolest, at 35°F and 18°F. October is the wettest at 4.8 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.1 inches; the year adds up to 47.3 inches over 82 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 52% of the year's precipitation (24.5 of 47.3 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 51 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (20); a normal September there has highs of 73°F and 4.2 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 7 days a year, almost all from June to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 143 nights a year. Snowfall averages 45.7 inches a year, most of it in January. That 47.3 inches is more than at 19 of the 65 Massachusetts stations used on this site (29%). Sudbury, 6 miles north, has its own station (Maynard 2, MA): 49.9 inches a year, 2.6 more than here, and a July average high of 87°F against 82°F.

Sea level at the Boston tide gauge, 19 miles from Framingham, has risen 1.17 ± 0.03 inches per decade from 1921 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 11.7 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 68 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 260 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Framingham: 174 thunderstorm wind reports, 49 floods, 20 flash floods and 17 lightning strikes. They killed 0 people and injured 8, and the NWS estimated $45.4 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on May 31, 1998. July has had the most flash floods, 9 of 20. Of the 339 Massachusetts cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 181 have had fewer than Framingham.

Flood insurance policyholders in Framingham's 2 ZIP codes have filed 223 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $1.8 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Not a named storm in 1979: 69 claims (31% of all) and $310,000, then Flooding in 1987 with 38 and March 2010 Nor'easter in 2010 with 29. 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, 195 have fewer than Framingham.