Snowiest Winter

The climate report from the National Weather Service was just posted and the word out of BWI-Marshall airport is that 4″ of snow fell on February 9th, pushing the winter total snowfall to 64.4″, which makes the winter of 2009-’10 the snowiest winter on record for Baltimore.  The old record of 62.5″ didn’t last very long; it was set in the winter of 1995-’96.  Official snow records go back to 1883 (other weather records date back to 1871, but for some reason snowfall records begin in 1883), and only three times prior to this winter was there more than 50″ of snow in a single winter season, most recently in 2002-’03 when 58.1″ fell.  This year’s record breaking snowfall is significant in that the record was broken with more than half of February and all of March still looming for potential snowstorms.

I’ve been rather sick and unable to enjoy the winter wonderland. But here is the view from the windows…

Silas has sure enjoyed the two blizzards in a row!