Chesapeake Bay Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook: Fall 2019

MARISA Chesapeake Bay Watershed Climate Summary map and title

A warm and dry September and October turned to a colder-than-usual November in many locations in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

Read more, and use the interactive tools to explore data on hurricanes and tropical storms, in the latest MARISA Seasonal Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook.

Highlights

October and September were among the ten hottest on record for those months in several locations, including Washington, D.C. and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Washington Dulles Airport experienced its third hottest September on record and its eighth coldest November.
September 2019 ranked among the top ten all-time driest months on record for Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C.
Hot, dry weather led to moderate and severe drought in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, a small portion of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle, and south-central Pennsylvania.

Read the Climate Summary

The MARISA Seasonal Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook is a seasonal series produced by NOAA’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments program that details seasonal weather and climate variability and change in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

MARISA is led by the non-profit RAND Corporation, in partnership with researchers in Penn State University’s Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, and the Environment, Energy, Sustainability and Health Institute at Johns Hopkins University, along with support from researchers in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University, and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.