Maryland Climate and Weather – Historical & Current Information for the State

Baltimore Sets New Record for Non-Measurable Precipitation

November 4, 2024 Jeff Taylor Comments 0 Comment

At the end of the day on November 4, 2024, the official Baltimore weather station at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) set the all-time record for days with no measurable precipitation. The period October 3rd-November 4th marks 33-consecutive days reporting <0.01”, superseding the previous record of 32 days covering the period September 30th-Oct 31st back in 1963. The month of October, 2024 reported a total of 0.36”, with 0.35” on the 1st and 0.01” on the 2nd but nothing…

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FINALLY! Measurable Snow in Baltimore

January 27, 2023 Jeff Taylor Comments 0 Comment

UPDATE: Early in the morning on Feb. 1, 2023, snow began falling in the Baltimore/DC. area, providing the first measurable snowfall for many. As of 7:00 AM, Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) had reported 0.2” while DC’s Reagan National Airport (DCA) and Washington-Dulles International Airport (IAD) both reported 0.4”. This was the 3rd latest first-measurable snowfall for Baltimore, with a snow archive going back to 1883 (when including the previous downtown locations). Now we wait for the first snowfall…

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Baltimore’s Calendar-Day Precipitation Record – July 9th

July 10, 2022 Jeff Taylor Comments 0 Comment

Baltimore’s Daily Precipitation record was broken on July 9, 2022 when 1.36” was recorded, superseding the previous record of 0.99” in 1970. Though these amounts are not unusual for July, what is unusual is that this was the last of the meteorological summer months of June, July, and August to not have a calendar day exceeding 1.00” of rain. Other months having each day with extremes of >1.00”: January, March, September, and December). Baltimore’s official precipitation archive goes back to…

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Baltimore’s Late-Season Freezing Temperature

April 29, 2022 Jeff Taylor Comments 0 Comment

On April 29, 2022, the temperature dropped to 32°F. at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI), breaking the daily record of 33° from way back in 1874. This also established the 3rd latest freezing temperature ever recorded for Baltimore. The only two later-in-the-season times it’s reached freezing were on April 30, 1961 and May 11, 1966 when both dates also recorded 32°F. Baltimore’s long-term temperature archive covers both the previous downtown locations (7/1872 to 7/1950) and BWI (8/1950-Present) and…

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Maryland’s Record-Warm October in 2021

November 8, 2021 Jeff Taylor Comments 0 Comment

Statewide for Maryland, 2021 was the warmest October on record, dating back to 1895 in the climate archives. There are unofficial reports of valley temperatures in Garrett County getting below freezing during the month but none of the official stations got any lower than 33°F. (as of this posting), occurring on 10/20/2021 at the COOP station “Sines Deep Creek,” which is located on the Youghiogheny River, just northwest of the Deep Creek Lake dam at an elevation of 2,040 feet…

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Maryland Summer Review

September 29, 2021 Jeff Taylor Comments 0 Comment

2021 was one of the warmer overall summers for the state of Maryland dating back to 1895, mostly due to much-above-average Minimum Temperatures. Here are the statewide rankings for various temperature categories, covering Meteorological Summer (June 1st – August 31st): UPDATED DATA AS OF 10/19/2021: Maximum Temperatures: 1. Ranked #12 warmest August with 86.8°. 2. Ranked #14 warmest Summer with 86.0° Minimum Temperatures: 1. Ranked #9 warmest June with 63.0° (tying 2013, 2008, 1994, 1922). 2. Ranked #1…

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Baltimore Sets Two Records on 11/11/2020

November 11, 2020 Jeff Taylor Comments 2 comments

As Tropical Storm Eta moves northward along the west coast of Florida, a ton of partially associated moisture has been streaming all the way up through the Mid-Atlantic States. According to the NWS, Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport received 1.91″ of rain on 11/11/2020, breaking the previous record of 1.34″ from 1987. Current radar is showing quite a bit more rain, some very heavy (numerous flood warnings are in effect), will continue falling on 11/12/2020, the record for that date…

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July 2020: The Hottest Month in Baltimore History

July 31, 2020 Jeff Taylor Comments 0 Comment

Official weather records for Baltimore date back to 1871. Never, during these last 150 years, has the monthly Mean Temperature (the average between the daily Maximum and Minimum Temperatures) ever been higher than the 81.7° that occurred in July 2011 and the 81.5°, which was recorded in three other Julys – 2010, 1995, and 1949. July 2020 goes down in the record books with the new all-time highest Mean Temperature of 82.6° for any month, a departure of +5.6° from…

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Washington, DC Area Sets Top-10 April Rainfalls in 2020

May 1, 2020 Jeff Taylor Comments 0 Comment

The final day of April catapulted both Dulles Airport and the longer-term Washington, DC into Top-10 total rainfalls for the month in their historical records. On April 30, 2020, the current official Washington, DC station at Reagan National Airport (located in Virginia, across the Potomac River from DC), started the day with a monthly total of 5.20″, requiring another 0.77″ to move into a tie for 10th place with the 5.97″ that fell in April 1952. The final total of 1.10″ on…

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Washington/Baltimore’s Paltry Number of Days ≤32°

April 27, 2020 Jeff Taylor Comments 0 Comment

As the DC/Baltimore area is just about past its normal period of freezing weather in the Spring, it has been one of the milder seasons regarding freezing temperatures. Historically, most locations outside of the downtown areas have had freezing temperatures into May but, as the extended forecast is currently not showing any cold weather into early May, this current season, which runs July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020, has been a record to near-record mild period. The airport in…

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