Code Red Heat Alert in Baltimore City for Friday and Saturday. Cooling centers are open in the city. Call 311 for locations. Temperatures 95+ on Friday. 100+ on Saturday. Highs of 103-106 possible on Saturday. Oppressively high humidity. Heat index temps 95 to 105 on Friday, and up to 110 on Saturday. That’s right, the… [Read more…]
April 26, 2010
Gov. Martin O’Malley and Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown launch their 2010 re-election campaign at lunchtime Tuesday in Baltimore, then follow up with a whirlwind three-day tour of Maryland. The tour includes stops in Largo, Rockville, Waldorf, Hagerstown, Frederick, Columbia, Cambridge, Aberdeen, Catonsville and Annapolis. Full details on scheduled tour stops are at the O’Malley-Brown campaign… [Read more…]
February 10, 2010
Snowiest winter ever in Maryland. At 3 p.m. Wednesday, the center of the low-pressure system out over the Atlantic Ocean has moved northeast from Virginia, and is now reported offshore at about Cape May, N.J. It’s heading toward New York City and Long Island, and they can have it. Some major highways are reported too… [Read more…]
February 10, 2010
At mid-day, already 11.5 inches of snow accumulation is reported in the Baltimore area, 15 inches reported in Westminster, Carroll County. The northern part of Central Maryland north into Pennsylvania is predicted to receive 20 inches of snow or more today. “We’re experiencing blizzard conditions in every single county and every part of Maryland,” Gov.… [Read more…]
February 10, 2010
Amazing. Today, Feb. 10, 2010, the entire state of Maryland is under a blizzard warning! When was the last time that happened? 2009-20010 is now officially the snowiest winter on record in the Baltimore region, and it’s still snowing. Right now, strong wind gusts are throughout the Eastern Shore, blowing the snow. Fog and wind… [Read more…]
February 7, 2010
Sunny Sunday morning. Streets in West Ocean City have been plowed. High today: 29, winds 10-20 mph. Very cold tonight. At 10:15 a.m. Sunday, the thermostat on the back porch reads 20 degrees in the shade. A little warmer in the sun. Snow accumulation from the Friday night-Saturday storm: 32 inches, a new record, at… [Read more…]
February 6, 2010
2:00 p.m. Saturday update: Snowing fiercely and heavy wind blowing snow off roofs in West Ocean City. Not a blizzard, in my opinion, but close. 1:30 p.m. Saturday update: Heavy snow in West Ocean City right now. We have a slushy, heavy, wet, mess in West Ocean City at noon Saturday. I think much of… [Read more…]
December 22, 2009
Top 20 snowfalls in Baltimore, Maryland, 1891-2009
December 21, 2009
December 2009 snow is December record for Baltimore and Maryland. Top 20 snow storms since 1891.
December 19, 2009
A windy snowstorm is shutting down the middle of Maryland on Saturday from the Chesapeake Bay through Montgomery and Frederick Counties. The heaviest snow is not in the Western Maryland mountains, as is usually the case, but in the Baltimore-Washington corridor. Lighter snow on the Eastern Shore. The massive snowstorm is roaring north along the… [Read more…]
July 23, 2010
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