ITHACA, N.Y. -- Nice weather -- if you're The Swamp Thing.

Ithaca-area residents absorbed a record-breaking total of 49 days of rain for the months of June, July and August -- and that was with a relatively dry June. The previous record of 46 days of rain in the three months was set in 1947.

The average number of rainy days for this same period in the Ithaca area is 34, according to Keith Eggleston, senior climatologist with Cornell University's Northeast Regional Climate Center. This summer also posted the wettest July and August on record in Ithaca with more than seven inches of rainfall recorded in each month.

Central New York residents slogged through soggy bottom days of near-record precipitation throughout the region from June through August. The Syracuse area reported 40 days of rain compared with the normal average of 33 days and a record of 46 rainy days. The Binghamton area reported 44 days of rain compared with an average of 34 days and its record of 46 rainy days

In Ithaca it rained on 13 days in June, 19 days in July and 17 days in August. The wettest period occurred in July when only one rain-free day punctuated a steady daily soak from July 15 to 29.

Although it rained a lot in the Ithaca area, there weren't any record-breaking downpours. The heaviest storm occurred on Aug. 20, when the skies unleashed 1.62 inches in a 24-hour period. The August 30 storms that caused flooding and re-routing of traffic on area roads amounted to 1.49 inches in Ithaca total, according to the climate center. Rain data is gathered at the climate center's weather station on Game Farm Road in Ithaca.

Most of the summer rains in Ithaca fell in August (7.63) and July (7.04 inches). June precipitation, reported at 2.86 inches, was below the average of 3.87 inches.

Ithaca's wettest summer was in 1935 when a total of 15.19 inches of rain fell in August and July, with 12.5 inches falling in July alone.