Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Pittsville, MD

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Salisbury Wicomico Regional Airport, MD, 7 miles southwest of Pittsville at 48 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 88°F and low of 68°F; January is the coolest, at 46°F and 28°F. August is the wettest at 5.3 inches of precipitation on average and November the driest at 3.2 inches; the year adds up to 47.6 inches over 78 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 54% of the year's precipitation (25.9 of 47.6 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 63 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (26); a normal September there has highs of 80°F and 4.5 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 30 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 94 nights a year. Snowfall averages 8.0 inches a year, most of it in February. That 47.6 inches is more than at 30 of the 41 Maryland stations used on this site (73%). Delmar, 10 miles northwest, has its own station (Salisbury, MD): 48.0 inches a year, 0.4 more than here, and a July average high of 89°F against 88°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Ocean City Inlet, MD, 17 miles east, averaged 74°F in September and 41°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Ocean City tide gauge, 17 miles from Pittsville, has risen 2.07 ± 0.14 inches per decade from 1975 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 20.7 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 121 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 114 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Pittsville: 59 thunderstorm wind reports, 35 heavy rain events, 13 flash floods, 5 floods and 2 lightning strikes. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $160,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 70 mph, on March 29, 1997. July has had the most flash floods, 7 of 13. Of the 239 Maryland cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 36 have had fewer than Pittsville.