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Delaware Weather Records

7 official all-time records

The official all-time extremes for Delaware, as NOAA’s State Climate Extremes Committee lists them: from 110°F at Millsboro to -17°F at Millsboro.

Maximum Temperature

RecordDateWhereStationStatus
110°FJuly 21, 1930Millsboro076020E: Value is unchanged from previous extremes tables last updated by NCEI (formerly NCDC) between 1998 and 2006. Value exceeds all other valid values.

Minimum Temperature

RecordDateWhereStationStatus
-17°FJanuary 17, 1893Millsboro076020E: Value is unchanged from previous extremes tables last updated by NCEI (formerly NCDC) between 1998 and 2006. Value exceeds all other valid values.

Greatest 24-Hour Precipitation

RecordDateWhereStationStatus
12.48 inchesSeptember 28, 2016 to September 29, 2016HarbesonDEOS Mesonet Station DWAR (NWSLI WARD1)NSA

The Harbeson value replaced the previously reported record of 8.5 inches, set at Dover on 13 July 1975. However, the SCEC reviewing the Harbeson record determined that the Dover record had actually been exceeded twice between 1975 and the Harbeson event, during Tropical Storms Floyd (1999) and Irene (2011). More details are available in the report associated with this investigation.

Maximum 24-Hour Snowfall

RecordDateWhereStationStatus
25 inchesFebruary 19, 1979Dover072730E: Value is unchanged from previous extremes tables last updated by NCEI (formerly NCDC) between 1998 and 2006. Value exceeds all other valid values.

Maximum Seasonal (July-June) Snowfall

RecordDateWhereStationStatus
72.7 inchesJuly 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010Bear 2SW071200NSA

Monthly Maximum Snowfall

RecordDateWhereStationStatus
46.9 inchesFebruary 1, 2010 to February 28, 2010Bear 2SW071200NSA

Maximum Snow Depth

RecordDateWhereStationStatus
28 inchesFebruary 7, 2010Greenwood 2.9 SECoCoRaHS DE-SS-7NSA

The Greenwood value replaced the previously reported record of 25 inches, set at Wilmington New Castle CO AP (13781) on 18 February, 2003 and Bridgeville 1 NW (071330) on 19 February 1979. More details are available in the associated report.

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, State Climate Extremes Committee records.