The unusually mild winter was among the warmest on record for many locations in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
MARISA Chesapeake Bay Watershed Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook: Winter 2019-2020
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An unusually mild winter saw low snowfall levels in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, and Baltimore's first February without snow in more than a century of recordkeeping.
Read more, and use the interactive tools to explore freeze-thaw cycles in a changing climate, in the latest MARISA Seasonal Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook.
Highlights
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The region experienced an unusually mild winter, which ranked among the ten warmest on record for many sites. -
The coldest temperature observed this winter in Washington, D.C. was the warmest minimum temperature for winter on record.
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This winter was also among the ten least snowy on record.
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Six tornadoes touched down in Maryland and northern Virginia on February 7, 2020. The Mid-Atlantic averages about one tornado per winter.
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It was the first time in Baltimore, Maryland’s 128 years of recordkeeping that the city saw no snow during February.
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In both low and high emission futures, the southeastern Mid-Atlantic is projected by an ensemble of climate models to experience significant decreases in freeze-thaw days by mid- to late-century.
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