Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Whitman, MA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Brockton, MA, 4 miles southwest of Whitman at 75 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 84°F and low of 63°F; January is the coolest, at 39°F and 21°F. March is the wettest at 5.2 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 3.2 inches; the year adds up to 50.2 inches over 83 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 49% of the year's precipitation (24.4 of 50.2 inches); the other six months are wetter. September has brought the most of the 51 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (19); a normal September there has highs of 75°F and 4.1 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 15 days a year, almost all from June to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 129 nights a year. Snowfall averages 34.3 inches a year, most of it in February. That 50.2 inches is more than at 49 of the 65 Massachusetts stations used on this site (75%). Rockland, 4 miles north, has its own station (Hingham, MA): 52.3 inches a year, 2.1 more than here, and a July average high of 83°F against 84°F.

Sea level at the Boston tide gauge, 20 miles from Whitman, 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 164 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Whitman: 108 thunderstorm wind reports, 26 floods, 19 lightning strikes and 11 flash floods. They killed 0 people and injured 61, and the NWS estimated $30.0 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 104 mph, on May 21, 1996. July has had the most flash floods, 4 of 11. Of the 339 Massachusetts cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 103 have had fewer than Whitman.

Flood insurance policyholders in Whitman's ZIP code 02382 have filed 12 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $6,861 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, 19 have fewer than Whitman.