Climate at a Glance

• Global
• National
• Regional
• Statewide
• Divisional
• County
• City

• Mapping
• Time Series
• Rankings
• Haywood Plots
• Data Information
• Background

Statewide Rankings

Look up monthly rankings for 1-12, 18, 24, 36, 48, and 60-month time periods using the options below. Data and statistics are as of August 2022. For more information, please see Climatological Rankings.

Parameter: Average Temperature Maximum Temperature Minimum Temperature Precipitation Cooling Degree Days Heating Degree Days Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) Palmer Hydrological Drought Index (PHDI) Palmer Modified Drought Index (PMDI) Palmer Z-Index

Year: 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

Month: January February March April May June July August September October November December

State: Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

---

« November 1953

January 1954 »

Maryland

Minimum Temperature Rankings, December 1953

View Period (Months):All1234567891011121824364860

Download:

• Record Coolest
• Bottom 1/10
• Bottom 1/3
• Normal
• Top 1/3
• Top 1/10
• Record Warmest

Period	Value	1901-2000 Mean	Anomaly	Rank (1895-2021)	Warmest/Coolest Since	Record
December 1953 1-Month	29.1°F (-1.6°C)	26.7°F (-2.9°C)	2.4°F (1.3°C)	86th Coolest	Coolest since: 1952	1989
				42nd Warmest	Warmest since: 1941	2015
Nov–Dec 1953 2-Month	31.2°F (-0.4°C)	30.9°F (-0.6°C)	0.3°F (0.2°C)	56th Coolest	Coolest since: 1951	1917
				72nd Warmest	Warmest since: 1952	2015
	Ties: 1912, 1934, 2017
Oct–Dec 1953 3-Month	35.5°F (1.9°C)	35.4°F (1.9°C)	0.1°F (0.0°C)	54th Coolest	Coolest since: 1952	1917
				74th Warmest	Warmest since: 1949	2015
Sep–Dec 1953 4-Month	40.3°F (4.6°C)	40.7°F (4.8°C)	-0.4°F (-0.2°C)	42nd Coolest	Coolest since: 1952	1917
				86th Warmest	Warmest since: 1949	2015
	Ties: 1932
Aug–Dec 1953 5-Month	44.5°F (6.9°C)	45.1°F (7.3°C)	-0.6°F (-0.4°C)	31st Coolest	Coolest since: 1952	1917
				97th Warmest	Warmest since: 1951	2018
	Ties: 1951, 1988
Jul–Dec 1953 6-Month	47.8°F (8.8°C)	48.4°F (9.1°C)	-0.6°F (-0.3°C)	32nd Coolest	Coolest since: 1951	1917
				96th Warmest	Warmest since: 1952	2018
	Ties: 1908, 1925, 1932, 1951
Jun–Dec 1953 7-Month	49.5°F (9.7°C)	50.0°F (10.0°C)	-0.5°F (-0.3°C)	30th Coolest	Coolest since: 1950	1917
				98th Warmest	Warmest since: 1952	2015, 2018
	Ties: 1905, 1930, 1932, 1944, 1946, 1965, 1981
May–Dec 1953 8-Month	50.3°F (10.2°C)	50.1°F (10.1°C)	0.2°F (0.1°C)	61st Coolest	Coolest since: 1952	1917
				67th Warmest	Warmest since: 1949	2018
	Ties: 1919, 1944
Apr–Dec 1953 9-Month	49.4°F (9.7°C)	49.1°F (9.5°C)	0.3°F (0.2°C)	71st Coolest	Coolest since: 1952	1917
				57th Warmest	Warmest since: 1949	2015
	Ties: 1918, 1933, 1955, 1995
Mar–Dec 1953 10-Month	47.9°F (8.8°C)	47.4°F (8.6°C)	0.5°F (0.2°C)	79th Coolest	Coolest since: 1952	1917
				49th Warmest	Warmest since: 1949	2011
	Ties: 1911, 1938, 1945, 1948, 1993, 1995
Feb–Dec 1953 11-Month	46.2°F (7.9°C)	45.3°F (7.4°C)	0.9°F (0.5°C)	88th Coolest	Coolest since: 1952	1917
				40th Warmest	Warmest since: 1949	2012, 2018, 2020
	Ties: 1898, 1987
Jan–Dec 1953 12-Month	44.8°F (7.1°C)	43.5°F (6.4°C)	1.3°F (0.7°C)	100th Coolest	Coolest since: 1952	1904
				28th Warmest	Warmest since: 1949	2020
	Ties: 1913
Jul 1952–Dec 1953 18-Month	45.9°F (7.7°C)	45.2°F (7.3°C)	0.7°F (0.4°C)	87th Coolest	Coolest since: 1952	1904
				40th Warmest	Warmest since: 1949	2012, 2020, 2021
	Ties: 1898, 1942, 1975, 1983
Jan 1952–Dec 1953 24-Month	44.6°F (7.0°C)	43.6°F (6.4°C)	1.0°F (0.6°C)	102nd Coolest	Coolest since: 1952	1905
				25th Warmest	Warmest since: 1932	2021
	Ties: 1932
Jan 1951–Dec 1953 36-Month	44.2°F (6.8°C)	43.6°F (6.4°C)	0.6°F (0.4°C)	89th Coolest	Coolest since: 1952	1905
				37th Warmest	Warmest since: 1939	2021
	Ties: 1932, 1939, 1973, 1974
Jan 1950–Dec 1953 48-Month	43.9°F (6.6°C)	43.5°F (6.4°C)	0.4°F (0.2°C)	76th Coolest	Coolest since: 1951	1905
				49th Warmest	Warmest since: 1952	2020, 2021
	Ties: 1924, 1939, 1949, 1951, 1957, 1989, 1997
Jan 1949–Dec 1953 60-Month	44.2°F (6.8°C)	43.5°F (6.4°C)	0.7°F (0.4°C)	91st Coolest	Coolest since: 1952	1905
				33rd Warmest	Warmest to Date	2021

Citing This Page

• NOAA National Centers for Environmental information, Climate at a Glance: Statewide Time Series, Minimum Temperature, published September 2022, retrieved on October 6, 2022 from https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/