Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The following table lists the highest and lowest temperatures recorded in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the 5 inhabited U.S. territories during the past two centuries, in both Fahrenheit and Celsius. [ 1] If two dates have the same temperature record (e.g. record low of 40 °F or 4.4 °C in 1911 in Aibonito and 1966 in San ...
By 2016, climate change had caused average temperatures in D.C. to rise 2 °F (1.1 °C) in a half-century, [1] more than the nationwide average nationwide. [2] Average summer temperatures have continued to rise: five out of six of the District's hottest recorded summers have occurred after 2010. [2]
On May 21, 2022, heat became prevalent in the Mid-Atlantic, resulting in a near record hot Preakness Stakes horse race, with Baltimore and Philadelphia having temperatures of 95 °F (35 °C), Washington DC at 92 °F (33 °C), and New York City at 90 °F (32 °C). [ 6] This heat persisted into May 22, when Dulles International Airport hit 91 °F ...
A map of the United States detailing the record-low temperatures for various cities on January 21, 1985. The 1985 North America cold wave [1] was a meteorological event which occurred in January, 1985, as a result of the shifting of the polar vortex farther south than is normally seen. [1]
The 1994 North American cold wave occurred over the midwestern and eastern regions of the United States and southern Canada in January 1994. The cold wave caused over 100 deaths in the United States. Two notable cold air events took place from January 18–19 and January 21–22. There were 67 minimum temperature records set on January 19. [1]
The Summer 2012 North American heat wave was one of the most severe heat waves in modern North American history. It resulted in more than 82 heat-related deaths across the United States and Canada, [2] [3] and an additional twenty-two people died in the resultant June 2012 North American derecho. This long-lived, straight-line wind and its ...
Get the Washington, DC local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
The 2021 Western North America heat wave was an extreme heat wave that affected much of Western North America from late June through mid-July 2021. [5] The heat wave affected Northern California, Idaho, Western Nevada, Oregon, and Washington in the United States, as well as British Columbia, and in its latter phase, Alberta, Manitoba, the Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, and Yukon, all in ...