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Areas of Severe Thunderstorms and Excessive Rainfall Today

Scattered severe thunderstorms capable of damaging wind gusts and some hail are expected this afternoon and evening from the Upper Ohio River Valley into the Northeast, and from the Appalachians into the Mid-Atlantic States. Excessive rainfall from heavy thunderstorms may produce areas of flash flooding from southern New Mexico into the western and northern Gulf Coast into Wednesday. Read More >

Winter Season (December 1 to February 29)

 

Top 10 Warmest and Coldest Winters
Rank Warmest
Average (°F)
Season Rank Coldest
Average (°F)
Season
1 37.0 1889-90 1 17.0 1978-79
2 36.1 1931-32 2 17.2 1977-78
3 35.3 2023-24 3 18.2 1935-36
4 33.9 2001-02 4 18.3 1962-63
5 33.7 2015-16 5 18.8 1976-77
6 33.6 2011-12 6 19.2 1884-85
7 33.3 1997-98 7 19.4 1917-18
8 33.1 2016-17 8 20.2 2013-14
9 (tie) 33.0 2022-23 9 21.7 1911-12
9 (tie) 33.0 1982-83
1930-31
10 22.1 1961-62

 

 

Top 10 Wettest and Driest Winters
Rank Wettest
(inches)
Season Rank Driest
(inches)
Season
1 13.18 1949-50 1 1.37 1962-63
2 10.56 2007-08 2 1.50 1919-20
3 10.16 1964-65 3 1.60 1930-31
4 8.85 1973-74 4 1.72 1955-56
5 8.84 2018-19 5 1.92 1960-61
6 8.71 2012-13 6 2.31 1939-40
7 8.67 1948-49 7 2.33 1969-70
8 8.59 1937-38 8 2.34 1963-64
9 8.58 1936-37 9 2.55 1976-77
10 8.22 1992-93 10 2.58 1995-96

 

Records began in 1883.