Maryland State Climatologist Office

Area-averaged Extreme Precipitation & Dry Spells in
Maryland in 2024

This analysis identifies Days with Extreme Precipitation as those whose daily accumulated precipitation is equal or larger than the 95 percentily of daily precipitation in the period 1951-2000; and Dry Spells as those whose daily accumulated precipitation is equal or lower than 0.04 inches for at least two consecutuve days. Summary tables can be seen in the following links for Extreme Precipitation, and Dry Spells.

NOTE: The plots are created from NCEI's nClimDiv-Daily data set, v1.0.0. Data labeled as scaled on September 9, 2024.

The green horizontal line in each panel marks the extreme precipitation threshold.