Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Wayland, MA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Natick, MA, 4 miles south of Wayland 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, 5 miles northwest, 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, 16 miles from Wayland, 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 362 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Wayland: 231 thunderstorm wind reports, 77 floods, 30 flash floods and 24 lightning strikes. They killed 0 people and injured 11, and the NWS estimated $32.1 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on July 22, 2016. July has had the most flash floods, 12 of 30. Of the 339 Massachusetts cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 264 have had fewer than Wayland.

Flood insurance policyholders in Wayland's ZIP code 01778 have filed 41 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $150,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Not a named storm in 1982: 12 claims (29% of all) and $35,000, then Flooding in 1987 with 10. 76% 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, 117 have fewer than Wayland.