Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Middleboro, MA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Middleboro, MA, in Middleboro at 45 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 82°F and low of 61°F; January is the coolest, at 38°F and 17°F. March is the wettest at 5.8 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 3.3 inches; the year adds up to 52.5 inches over 86 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 47% of the year's precipitation (24.8 of 52.5 inches); the other six months are wetter. September has brought the most of the 57 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (19); a normal September there has highs of 74°F and 4.2 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 8 days a year, almost all from June to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 139 nights a year. Snowfall averages 41.5 inches a year, most of it in February. That 52.5 inches is more than at 59 of the 65 Massachusetts stations used on this site (91%). Lakeville, 5 miles southwest, has its own station (Rochester, MA): 53.6 inches a year, 1.1 more than here, and the same July average high, 82°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Fall River, MA, 19 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, 27 miles from Middleboro, 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 72 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Middleboro: 50 thunderstorm wind reports, 13 floods, 6 lightning strikes and 3 flash floods. They killed 0 people and injured 1, and the NWS estimated $8.8 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 75 mph, on August 22, 2020.

Flood insurance policyholders in Middleboro's ZIP code 02346 have filed 18 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $152,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 50% 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, 51 have fewer than Middleboro.