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July 2020: The Hottest Month in Baltimore History

July 2020: The Hottest Month in Baltimore History

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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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Baltimore and Washington: Extreme Precipitation Within Their Political Boundaries

Baltimore and Washington: Extreme Precipitation Within Their Political Boundaries

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Most larger U.S. cities have one “official” National Weather Service (NWS) weather station for which climate data is recorded and archived. As we weather geeks know, that one location can be very unrepresentative of weather conditions compared with other parts of a city, especially as related to precipitation. Elevation and varying urbanization can provide great differences in temperatures while thunderstorms can drop prodigious amounts of rain in one part of a city, while other areas stay dry. This got me thinking…

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