Sleet in Maryland
Every sleet event the National Weather Service has filed in Maryland, year by year, with the most significant episodes. Sleet accumulating half an inch or more.
The most significant on the map
The most significant sleet episodes in Maryland.
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The record
- Events
- 19
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Damage
- None recorded
Every year
The most significant
Ranked by deaths, injuries, damage and size together.
- Sleet in Maryland, January 9, 1997Double barrel low pressure systems spread a mixture of sleet and freezing rain across the Maryland Eastern Shore. Precipitation started briefly as light snow across northern Cecil County. Precipitation spread across the area by noon on the 9th.
- Winter Storm and Sleet in Maryland, January 30, 2000A low pressure system developed in the western Gulf of Mexico during the day on the 28th. It slowly moved eastnortheast and by Sunday morning the 30th was located near Apalachicola, Florida, not too far from the location of the January 25th storm.
- Winter Storm and Sleet in Maryland, January 20 to 21, 2001A vigorous upper air disturbance coupled with a low pressure system that was intensifying east of the New Jersey coast produced heavy snow across Cecil County and a wintry mix of sleet and snow across the rest of the Eastern Shore.
- Sleet in Maryland, January 19 to 20, 2002A weak low pressure system that moved through the Gulf Coast States and exited quickly off the North Carolina coast had sufficient moisture and came close enough to the peninsula to give the region a wintry mix of snow, sleet and rain for most of the 19th.
- Sleet in Maryland, February 12, 2001A weak low pressure system developed from an inverted trough off the south Atlantic Coast the morning of the 12th. As the low moved off the North Carolina coast during the evening of the 12th, moisture spilled north into the Maryland Eastern Shore.
- Sleet in Maryland, March 4 to 5, 2001An intensifying low pressure system brought a wintry mix of precipitation to Cecil County on the 4th and 5th. Precipitation began as rain across the county around daybreak on the 4th.
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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 2026-09-24.