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August 4, 2011

Thursday's high at BWI a mere 80 degrees

What a difference a day or two make. Two days after the end of our 17-day streak of 90-plus days, Thursday's official high temperature at BWI-Marshall Airport was just 80 degrees.

It is the first time the mercury at the airport has failed to rise beyond 80 since June 20, when the high was 79. There have been just four days that cool since June 1.

Nice.

It can't last, of course. The NWS predicts highs of 87 for the next two days, and we'll likely be back into the 90s by Sunday.

Posted by Frank Roylance at 5:43 PM | | Comments (1)
Categories: By the numbers
        

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To put another bit of perspective on this summer, today marked only the 12th day since June 1 that the daily high temperature has been below the 30-year normal.

And aside from today (when the high temperature was 6 degrees below normal), June 20 was the last date we saw the high temperature even 5 degrees below normal.

Contrast that with 51 days of the high temperature at or above the 30-year normal, with the maximum temperature on 11 of those days at least 11 degrees above normal.

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This site is the Maryland Weather archive. The current Maryland Weather blog can be found here.
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. Frank also answers readers’ weather queries for the newspaper and the blog. Frank Roylance retired in October 2011. Maryland Weather is now being updated by members of The Baltimore Sun staff
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