Record Rainfall in Parts of New England Dampens Tourism

U.S.|Record rainfall has fallen successful parts of New England this month.

• July 19, 2021, 2:43 p.m. ET

Summer has truthful acold been a washout successful overmuch of New England, wherever rainfall records for July could beryllium breached — and immoderate person already toppled.

With 13 days inactive near this month, 12.67 inches person fallen connected Worcester, Mass., breaking the erstwhile record of 11.24 inches that was acceptable successful 1938, according to the National Weather Service. Boston and Hartford, Conn., person some had their third-wettest July connected record.

“We’re getting a batch of pushback from radical who person been saying, ‘Enough is enough,’” Ryan Hanrahan, the main meteorologist for NBC Connecticut, said successful an interrogation connected Monday. “It’s been a beauteous unspeakable stretch.”

Although it is not imaginable to instantly gully a transportation betwixt 1 dense downpour — oregon adjacent a bedewed period — and clime change, the United States and different parts of the satellite person seen an summation successful the frequence of dense rainstorms arsenic the satellite warms. One basal crushed is that warmer aerial holds much moisture.

The slog of bedewed July upwind has been felt acutely successful New England’s edifice and tourism industry, which had been counting connected a rebound successful concern this summertime aft closings during the coronavirus pandemic.

At Dennis Parasail & Jet Ski connected Cape Cod, astir 12 days person already been mislaid to the rainfall for the months of June and July, which the manager, Autumn Shields, said successful an interrogation connected Monday was unusually high.

“The upwind reporting, careless of the apps, keeps calling for rain,” Ms. Shields said. “People are conscionable reasoning it’s going to rain, truthful they’re not booking. People are feeling discouraged, but we’re inactive trying to get retired determination and assistance radical person arsenic overmuch amusive arsenic they can.”

Deirdre Mears, the proprietor of Abbott’s Lobster successful the Rough successful Groton, Conn., an instauration known for its warm, buttered lobster rolls and views of Fishers Island Sound, said that the timing of the rainfall — which fell connected highest weekends — was peculiarly difficult.

“You can’t get backmost Memorial Day weekend, and you can’t get backmost Fourth of July,” she said.

The restaurant, which has a ample structure and immoderate indoor seating, has had to chopped backmost connected staffing due to the fact that of the weather, according to Ms. Mears, who said that immoderate devotees had braved the elements and the unseasonably chill upwind anyway.