Extreme Cold Watches in Maryland
8 extreme cold watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of extreme cold watches reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Cold Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Watches
- 8
- Busiest year
- 20267 extreme cold watches
- Average year
- 4over 2 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Allegany County4
- Garrett County3
- Dorchester County2
- Somerset County2
- Wicomico County2
- Worcester County2
- Anne Arundel County1
- Baltimore County1
- Caroline County1
- Carroll County1
- Cecil County1
- Frederick County1
- Harford County1
- Howard County1
- Kent County1
- Montgomery County1
- Prince George's County1
- Queen Anne's County1
- Talbot County1
- Washington County1
- City of Baltimore1
The latest extreme cold watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 1:07 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | LWX | Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Cecil, Frederick and 6 more | 13 hr |
| Feb 5, 12:56 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | AKQ | Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester | 13 hr |
| Feb 5, 12:15 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | PHI | Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 13 hr |
| Feb 5, 2:58 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | LWX | Allegany, Garrett | 10 hr |
| Jan 30, 11:23 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | LWX | Allegany, Garrett | 14 hr |
| Jan 29, 1:13 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | AKQ | Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester | 36 hr |
| Jan 25, 11:53 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | LWX | Garrett | 11 hr |
Nearby
Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.