Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Sharon, MA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Walpole 2, MA, 5 miles northwest of Sharon at 170 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 83°F and low of 63°F; January is the coolest, at 37°F and 20°F. October and December are the wettest at 5.0 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.4 inches; the year adds up to 49.8 inches over 84 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 50% of the year's precipitation (24.7 of 49.8 inches). September has brought the most of the 51 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (21); a normal September there has highs of 74°F and 3.7 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 127 nights a year. Snowfall averages 56.1 inches a year, most of it in January. That 49.8 inches is more than at 46 of the 65 Massachusetts stations used on this site (71%). Stoughton, 4 miles east, has its own station (Norwood Mem Airport, MA): 43.8 inches a year, 6.0 less than here, and a July average high of 86°F against 83°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Providence, RI, 24 miles southwest, averaged 72°F in August and 36°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Boston tide gauge, 18 miles from Sharon, 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 229 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Sharon: 147 thunderstorm wind reports, 39 floods, 22 lightning strikes and 21 flash floods. They killed 0 people and injured 66, and the NWS estimated $37.0 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 104 mph, on May 21, 1996. September has had the most flash floods, 7 of 21. Of the 339 Massachusetts cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 189 have had fewer than Sharon.

Flood insurance policyholders in Sharon's ZIP code 02067 have filed 38 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $105,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 42% 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, 112 have fewer than Sharon.