114-degree spread between B'more's hottest, coldest
FROM TODAY'S PRINT EDITIONS:
Online Maryland Weather Blog reader “Johnny C” writes: “After hearing about the temps in Ark and OK the last few days, I’m curious as to what was the lowest temp … around Baltimore, and when it occurred.”
Our coldest reading is minus-7 degrees. It’s been matched five times between Feb. 10, 1899 and Jan. 22, 1984. That 1984 record came just five months after a reading of 105 degrees, on Aug. 20, 1983, still the record August high.
Baltimore’s hottest temperature was 107 degrees, on July 10, 1936.
(SUN PHOTO: Larry C. Price, 1999)
Posted by Frank Roylance at 12:01 AM | Permalink
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Categories: From the Sun's print edition, Sky Notes
Categories: From the Sun's print edition, Sky Notes
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You mention the hottest day in ANY month was a 107 degree day in July 1936. I believe temperature-wise 1936 was the 'most extremist' year of all-time across America. One of the 2 or 3 worst cold waves ever occurred that winter, followed by one of the 2 or 3 worst heat waves ever less than 6 months later. (And on top of that, May-June 1936 in the mid-Atlantic would have also been a time for the 17-year locusts!) A very eventful year during the Depression!
FR: All that and cicadas too? Yikes!
Posted by: Flagtown '71 | February 15, 2011 1:48 PM