Delaware Climate Data

Delaware’s Severe Weather

Delaware’s Severe Weather events are monitored and recorded by the University of Delaware’s Center for Environmental Monitoring and Analysis (CEMA). This section characterizes and summarizes historical data for severe weather such as mid-latitude coastal storms, tropical cyclones, tornadoes, and hail.

Current Climate Summary Maps for Delaware

Climate summary maps can help to understand the relationship between current observed conditions and the climate normal conditions. Main parameters featured include temperature, precipitation, drought, and heating and cooling degree days. The graphs in this section show current measurements and how much they deviate from the expected normal values.

Delaware Climate Normals

Climate Normals are three-decade averages of climatological variables including temperature and precipitation.  This product is created once every 10 years and is helpful for comparing current observations to monthly averages.  The 1991-2020 US Climate Normals dataset is the latest release of NCEI’s Climate Normals.

Resources

This page provides useful links to sources of local and regional data and reports.

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