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Super Summer Soaker Phloods Philadelphia Rainfall Record; Second Extreme in 3 Years 13 Aug 2013 | 11:57 pm
Images (click to enlarge): Top 10 wettest summers in Philadelphia, CapitalClimate chart from National Weather Service (NWS) data; Philadelphia precipitation percentage of normal for 90 days ending Aug...
San Juan Swamps Century-Plus Rainfall Record 19 Jul 2013 | 09:58 am
Midnight Update: The final daily rainfall for San Juan is 9.23", the second highest for any day on record. The year-to-date rainfall total is now 185% of normal and only about 8" below the normal for...
Record Heat in Northern Maine, Eastern Canada 16 Jul 2013 | 10:00 am
Image (click to enlarge): U.S. temperatures at 4 pm EDT, July 15, 2013, from Unisys Record heat extended from northernmost Maine into eastern Canada on Monday, July 15: - The high temperature at Mill...
Record Rainfall Drenches Dulles; Update: Rain Ransacks Roanoke Record 12 Jul 2013 | 11:28 pm
Images (click to enlarge): Washington, DC regional radar, 12:49 am EDT, July 12, 2013, from The Weather Channel; 24-hour precipitation ending 8 am EDT, July 13, 2013, for Washington region, from Natio...
Southwest Scorched by Historic Heat 29 Jun 2013 | 07:25 am
It was historically hot in the desert Southwest today. Over a dozen major National Weather Service climate locations in Arizona, Nevada and interior California tied or broke temperature records for Ju...
New York on Track for Wettest June in 145-Year Climate Record 27 Jun 2013 | 07:06 am
Images (click to enlarge): June total rainfall to date for New York and southern New England from National Weather Service (NWS); 48-hour total precipitation forecast through Friday evening, June 28, ...
Early Summer Heat Krushes Kansas Records 12 Jun 2013 | 07:38 am
9 PM CDT Update: The preliminary final high temperature at Goodland was 107°, smashing the old record by 7°. Other records were tied or broken in Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, and ...
Andrea Smashes Early-Season Rainfall Records 8 Jun 2013 | 03:04 am
Heavy rainfall associated with the pre-storm environment and Tropical Storm Andrea itself has been smashing daily rainfall records along the East Coast. At Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, the unoffici...
Triple-Digit Temperatures Crush Northern Plains/Midwest Heat Records; All-Time May Record at Sioux City 17 May 2013 | 02:19 am
Image (click to enlarge): U.S. daily high temperatures for May 14, 2013, from Unisys While Mid Atlantic residents were complaining about the unseasonable cold temperatures on Tuesday, heat records we...
Weather Whiplash: U.S. Cold Records Crush Heat Records 6.5 to 1 in April 8 May 2013 | 02:57 am
One year after heat records smashed cold records by a ratio of over 35 to 1, preliminary data from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) show that new daily low temperature records in the U.S. outn...
