Mid-Atlantic Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook: Spring 2022

MARISA Mid-Atlantic Regional Climate Summary map and title

March and April storms brought record snowfalls, traffic pile-ups, and power outages to the Mid-Atlantic region. Overall the region experienced close to normal temperature for spring, and slightly more precipitation than normal.

See how total monthly precipitation is projected to change in the future, in the latest MARISA Seasonal Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook.

Highlights

Temperatures were generally within two degrees of normal for the spring season across the Mid-Atlantic. This is similar to what we observed for the preceding summer, fall, and winter seasons.
The region generally experienced slightly wetter than normal conditions, with most locations experiencing between 100 and 125 percent of their normal spring precipitation amounts.
The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season could see 14–21 named storms, six to ten hurricanes, and three to six major hurricanes, with researchers estimating a 71 percent chance of at least one major hurricane (category 3–5) making landfall on the U.S. east coast.
An analysis of projected changes in total monthly precipitation shows that the region is projected to experience an increase in precipitation into the future, with the winter months projected to experience the largest increases in precipitation.

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 Mid-Atlantic region.

MARISA is led by the non-profit RAND Corporation, in partnership with researchers in Penn State University’s Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Johns Hopkins University, the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University, the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Morgan State University, and Carnegie Mellon University.