High atop Parr’s Ridge in northern Carroll County, MD at about 800 ft elevation.
Contest!
Guess The Amount of Snow At Casa De Smolinski (and DCA/BWI/IAD)
Seasonal Snowfall Contest Entries
TSMagnum 26.9 Groveton 28.8 Snowbrow 35.2 mjbuffettfan 38 BigCountry 42.2 beadalou 42.3 Terpiecat 42.7 Xtrain21 44.4 ck5416 45.1 taylort2 45.8 (no name) 47.2 cdklktr 47.5 alrob8 48.3 Sneakyfeets 48.5 SSB 51.3 Sarandipity885 53.4 eric654 54.5 gelezinis vilkas 56.7 83worldtraveler 58.7 Kate commenting 59.3 asimovian 61.3 nomini 63.2 parksndc 64.7 I Love Terpiecat 65.0 cameraman 65.4 Snownomore 69.9 Autumn_Forge 67.3 chrisofthebeagles 71.9 Rex Block 73.3 Merry Mildest 75.0 walter-in-fallschurch 75.1 WBsnowchic 77 surewhynot 79 speedo311yo 88.0 PBH 88 Scrabble Girl 98.6 Chris Smolinski 100.0 The Adorable Miniature Snowplows 101
Mean: 61.0
Median: 59.3
(No, I can’t win my own contest, I thought it would to fun to add my own guess, which is just the approximate total snowfall the last time we had a solar minimum winter)
October Total: 0.0″
Thursday November 15, 2018 – Friday November 16, 2018:
7.0″ of heavy snow on the 15th.
An additional 1.25″ of snow measured early on the morning of the 16th, which fell overnight
Wednesday November 28, 2018
Snow flurries. No accumulation.
November Total: 8.25″
December Total: 0.0″
Wednesday January 9, 2019 – Thursday January 10, 2019
A dusting of snow.
Saturday January 12, 2019 – Sunday January 13, 2019
2.5″ of snow
Thursday January 17, 2019 – Friday January 18, 2019
1.5″ of snow
Saturday January 19, 2019
0.5″ of snow,then sleet, then rain.
Friday January 25, 2019
Morning snow flurries.
Tuesday January 29, 2019
3.5″ of fairly heavy snow.
Wednesday January 30, 2019
0.4″ from a snow squall.
January Total: 8.4″
Friday February 1, 2019
2.0″ of dry snow.
Monday February 11, 2019 – Tuesday February 12, 2019
5.5″ snow, ending as sleet and rain.
Sunday February 17, 2019 – Monday February 18, 2019
Glaze of freezing rain.
Wednesday February 20, 2019
4.5″ of wet snow, followed by some freezing mist. About 0.1″ ice build up on trees.
February Total: 12.0″
Friday March 1, 2019
2.9″ of snow.
Saturday March 2, 2019
1.5″ of wet snow, also some rain and sleet.
Sunday March 3, 2019
4.75″ of heavy snow.
March Total: 9.15″
2018-2019 Season To Date Total: 37.8″
Previous seasons:
Winter 2017-2018 34.1″
Winter 2016-2017 22.9″
Winter 2015-2016 43.7″
Winter 2014-2015 44.7″
Winter 2013-2014 78.0″
Winter 2009-2010: No details, but the seasonal total was about 100″ with three major blizzards.