Summer is supposed to have rain, but this meteorological summer for Ohio was a very wet one.

Meteorological summer is June, July and August.

The two soggy spots were in northern and southern Ohio.


What You Need To Know

  • Meteorologists consider June through August the summer season

  • Temperatures were warmer than average across the state

  • All areas in Ohio picked up extra rainfall, especially Cleveland

Let's look at the summer rainfall total for Cincinnati. The city was definitely way above average in rainfall.

18.26 inches of rain fell, which is more than 6 inches above average for meteorological summer.

Temperatures ran on the warm side, but were not hugely different from normal temperatures.

Columbus also saw a lot of rain, but not as much as Cincinnati and Cleveland.

The total rainfall this summer was 14.38 inches. Normal rainfall for meteorological summer is 12.74 inches.

Temperatures were very hot in August. The average temperature for the summer overall came in at 75.4 degrees. The normal average temperature is 73.7 degrees. 

Cleveland was the rainiest summer spot this summer, coming in with 18.81 inches of rain from June through August. That is 7.75 inches above normal.

Cleveland was also slightly above average in temperature.

After a very warm and extremely humid end to August, meteorological fall is starting off very refreshing and much cooler.  

We may be done with the 90-degree temperatures for a while!