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The climate of New England varies greatly across its 500-mile (800 km) span from northern Maine to southern Connecticut. Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and most of interior western Massachusetts have a humid continental climate (Dfb under the Köppen climate classification). In this region, the winters are long, cold, and heavy snow is common ...
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. The county seat of Providence County, it is one of the oldest cities in New England, [7] founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He named the area in honor of "God's merciful ...
Due to increases in temperatures, Rhode Island experienced "uncomfortably warm" weather in 2015-2016 three weeks longer than in the 1950s. This may lead to hundreds of additional heat-related ER visits per year in Rhode Island (an increase between 6.8 and 25%, depending on emissions levels).
With an average temperature of 43.2 degrees, March was 4.3 degrees above the normal temperature of 38.9 degrees, according to National Weather Service records. The Providence area has had only 11 ...
September 23, 1989: An F0 tornado caused minor damage in Cranston. [9] October 18, 1990: An F1 touched down in Warwick, crossed Narragansett Bay as a waterspout, and dissipated in Riverside. [10] August 13, 1994: A small tornado damaged trees along a one-mile path in Coventry.
The average temperature in the Providence area so far this month is 55.9 degrees, which is 1.5 degrees below normal. The highest temperature so far this month was 76 degrees, reached on May 7.
Hurricane Bob approaching New England on August 19, 1991. August 19, 1991 – Hurricane Bob made landfall on Block Island, Rhode Island, and Newport, Rhode Island, as a Category 2 hurricane. Winds gusted to Category 3 strength in southeastern Massachusetts. Bob was one of the smallest in area and yet most intense hurricanes to hit southern New ...
Source: Weather Atlas ^ Mean monthly maxima and minima (i.e. the expected highest and lowest temperature readings at any point during the year or given month) calculated based on data at said location from 1991 to 2020.