As 2011 draws to a close, we did break several records, here in Fairmount
and for the city of Syracuse
2nd, 3rd, 4th and 8th place. is where we ended the year, as of 12-30-11
We were close to the record for the least snowiest December on record. Unfortunately, the 4.5” of snow on Wednesday and at least 1 inch since midnight last night has pushed us to 9” for the month. The record is 5.9” set December 1994 and will stay that way for another year.
We are holding in second place for now; we’ll see what Thursday night’s snow amounts to and whether that pushes us into third place (7.1” in 1965)
| Year | Avg Temp |
| 1931 | 51.4 F |
| 1998 | 50.8 F |
| 1949 | 50.6 F |
| 2011 | 50.5 F |
| 1953 | 50.4 F |
| 1938 | 50.4 F |
| 2002 | 50.4 F |
| 1921 | 50.4 F |
| 2006 | 44.7 F |
Our Station readings are in Bold, official readings are listed in parenthesis.
Rankings are based on Official readings taken at the Syracuse Airport.
Here is our year end Report
Our readings were very close to what was officially recorded at the Airport.
| Month | Mean Temp | Official * | Rank |
| May | 62.2 F | (62.8 F) | 3rd Warmest |
| July | 76.3 F | (75.8 F) | 2nd Warmest |
| September | 64.1 F | (66.0 F) | 4th Warmest |
| November | 46.6 F | (46.8 F) | 2nd Warmest |
| December | 34.2 F | (35.8 F) | 3rd Warmest |
*Thanks to 9wsyr for the Official Data included.
Even though part of the snow season started in 2010, the winter of 2010-11 came in at 179.0” which made it the 4th snowiest on record.
| Winter | Snowfall |
| 1992-1993 | 192.1″ |
| 2000-2001 | 191.9″ |
| 2003-2004 | 181.3″ |
| 2010-2011 | 179.0″ |