Mid-Atlantic Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook: Spring 2023

MARISA Mid-Atlantic Regional Climate Summary map and title

The spring season was drier than normal in the Mid-Atlantic region, and five sites experienced their least-snowy season on record.

Learn more and explore an analysis of how the the timing of the first hot day is projected to change in the future in the latest MARISA Seasonal Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook.

Highlights

Average temperatures for this spring were 0-2 degrees F above normal for the majority of the region. This is cooler than what was observed for the winter season, but similar to what was observed from spring 2021 to fall 2022.
The majority of the region experienced drier than normal conditions (50–75 percent of normal precipitation).
The region largely experienced less than normal amounts of snow during the 2022–2023 snow season (October–May), with the five sites recording their least snowy season on record all seeing less than 0.5 inches of snowfall.

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.