All-time weather records — Westminster, MD

Record high
102.0°F
July 23, 2011
Record low
-16.1°F
February 5, 1996
Wettest day
6.26 in
September 2, 2021

Climate change signal in Westminster

21.9%

of Westminster's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (80 of 366 records since 2015).

14.5%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (53 of 366 records since 2015).

If records were spread evenly across the station's history, you'd expect roughly 5% per decade. Decade-by-decade, here's where each record-breaking day was set:

Decade Heat records set # Cold records set #
1990s
90
137
2000s
125
125
2010s
131
97
2020s
20
7

Records are the all-time daily extremes that are still standing — each daily record can only be held by one year. The station's earliest hot record was set in 1993, the latest in 2021. Period of observation: 1993-2021.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 70.0°F — Jan 8, 2008 -14.1°F — Jan 19, 1994 2.29 in — Jan 14, 2005
February 80.1°F — Feb 22, 2018 -16.1°F — Feb 5, 1996 2.16 in — Feb 14, 2007
March 87.1°F — Mar 31, 1998 -9.0°F — Mar 6, 2015 2.74 in — Mar 22, 2019
April 91.0°F — Apr 18, 2002 19.0°F — Apr 7, 2002 2.16 in — Apr 16, 2018
May 93.0°F — May 20, 1996 27.0°F — May 14, 1996 2.16 in — May 3, 2016
June 97.0°F — Jun 30, 2012 39.0°F — Jun 9, 1998 3.37 in — Jun 28, 2006
July 102.0°F — Jul 23, 2011 45.0°F — Jul 30, 1997 3.68 in — Jul 22, 2018
August 98.1°F — Aug 3, 2002 44.1°F — Aug 21, 2000 3.10 in — Aug 28, 2011
September 95.0°F — Sep 2, 2010 30.9°F — Sep 21, 2020 6.26 in — Sep 2, 2021
October 91.0°F — Oct 10, 2007 21.0°F — Oct 23, 1997 5.07 in — Oct 30, 2012
November 82.0°F — Nov 4, 2003 12.9°F — Nov 30, 1995 2.70 in — Nov 8, 1997
December 77.0°F — Dec 8, 1998 -0.9°F — Dec 7, 2002 2.61 in — Dec 5, 1993

Click a month to see every daily record for that month in Westminster.