Winter Weather, Cecil
- When
- February 13, 5:00 AM EST to 7:00 AM EST
- Where
- Cecil forecast zone
- Reported by
- Mesonet
- Coordinates
- 39.562, -75.948 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Winter Weather in Maryland, February 13, 2015
Northwest winds that persisted into the morning of the 13th combined with an arctic air mass to produce below zero wind chill factors as far south as the central Eastern Shore in Maryland and morning low temperatures of around 10 degrees in Cecil County and in the lower to mid teens across the rest of the Eastern Shore. Actual morning low temperatures included 11 degrees in Elkton (Cecil…
Where it happened
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- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS PHI wrote it up.
Northwest winds that persisted into the morning of the 13th combined with an arctic air mass to produce below zero wind chill factors as far south as the central Eastern Shore in Maryland and morning low temperatures of around 10 degrees in Cecil County and in the lower to mid teens across the rest of the Eastern Shore. Actual morning low temperatures included 11 degrees in Elkton (Cecil County), 13 degrees in Centreville (Queen Anne's County), 14 degrees in Rock Hall (Kent County) and Preston (Caroline County) and 16 degrees in Easton (Talbot County). The arctic high pressure system moved southeast from North Dakota early on the 12th into the central Mississippi Valley on the evening of the 12th and into the Ohio Valley on the morning of the 13th.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 13, 4:38 AM EST, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 13, 4:38 AM EST, 22 minutes before
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The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Winter Weather
- Snow, sleet or freezing rain below warning levels that still caused disruption, damage or casualties.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Cold in New Jersey, February 13, 2015
- High Wind and Strong Wind in Hawaii, February 13 to 14, 2015
- Extreme Cold and Cold in New York, February 13, 2015
- Winter Storm and Extreme Cold in Michigan, February 13 to 15, 2015
- Blizzard and Cold in Michigan, February 13 to 15, 2015
- Extreme Cold and Cold in Pennsylvania, February 13, 2015
- Winter Storm in Michigan, February 13 to 15, 2015
- Cold in Vermont, February 13, 2015
- Cold in Massachusetts, February 13, 2015
- Cold in Connecticut, February 13, 2015
- Cold in Delaware, February 13, 2015
- Flood in Puerto Rico, February 13, 2015
More
Every storm in Maryland in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in Maryland, February 2015
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 556519.