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BWI low of 8 degrees not a record

The mercury sank to an official low of 8 degrees over night at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. That is plenty cold for Maryland, but far from a record. The record low for Baltimore on a Jan. 21 is minus-6 degrees F, in 1985.

It was 8 degrees out on the Weatherdeck in Cockeysville, too. Here are some other readings from around the region. Feel free to drop us a comment and report your overnight lows. Be sure to include your location.

BWI:  8 degrees

Washington DC:  18 degrees

Dulles International:  7 degrees

Inner Harbor:  16 degrees

Frederick:  5 degrees

Martinsburg:  10 degrees

These mid-winter cold snaps always arrive with big high-pressure systems from the arctic. The barometer reading at BWI at this writing was 30.79 inches. It was 30.82 inches at Washington. That's darn high. You can track the barometer's meanderings on a nifty fever chart, here.

 

Posted by Frank Roylance on January 21, 2008 8:28 AM |
                    

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Frank Roylance is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. He came to Baltimore from New Bedford, Mass. in 1980 to join the old Evening Sun. He moved to the morning Sun when the papers merged in 1992, and has spent most of his time since covering science, including astronomy and the weather. One of The Baltimore Sun's first online Web logs, the Weather Blog debuted in October 2004. In June 2006 Frank also began writing comments on local weather and stargazing for The Baltimore Sun's print Weather Page.
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