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Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Mid-Atlantic Region - March 2025

Document Author

NOAA

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Document Date

March 31, 2025

Document Type

Outlooks

Document Description

Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook for the Mid-Atlantic Region for December 2024–February 2025. Dated March 2025.

Nearly the entire region experienced below normal temperatures this winter, primarily due to extremely cold temperatures in January. This is the first cooler-than-normal season since summer 2023 and it is only the second cooler-than-normal season since the start of the MARISA Climate Summary series in 2018. The majority of the region experienced a less than normal amount of precipitation; however a swath of southern West Virginia across central Virginia saw above normal precipitation.

NOAA’s Mid-Atlantic CAP Team (MARISA) created this outlook in partnership with NOAA’s Regional Climate Services Program to inform the public about recent climate impacts within their respective regions. Each regional report contains easy-to-understand language, and anyone can access them through the U.S. Drought Portal.