Maryland Snowfall Ranking Is Awful, Is That Good?

BALTIMORE, MD — We are just a couple of days from March, and yet Maryland has dodged any hint of a "snowpocalypse," almost completely snowless for the 2017-18 winter. We've had so little snow, in fact, that we rank near the bottom of a list of cities and regions in the Eastern United States, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday. Do you miss the fluffy white stuff?

Even cities in the South easily beat the Baltimore area, according to NOAA's chart, which is embedded at the bottom of this post with snow totals through Feb. 25, plus last year's totals and the normal amount of snow expected at this point in the year. Out of the 68 cities and regions in the Eastern U.S. included in the chart, Baltimore-Washington International Airport ranks at No. 50 in the bottom third of cities, receiving only 8.7 inches of snow in total this winter. That's half of the 17.6 inches of snow the region normally gets, but well above the 0.7 inch of snow totaled last year by the same date.

Asheville and Greensboro in North Carolina both have received an inch or two more snow this winter than BWI has logged, and Charleston, South Carolina, has shivered under only 3 inches less snow than Baltimore, which has to feel so wrong for those folks.

The lack of snow carried over into northern Virginia and Washington, D.C., too. Reagan National Airport in Arlington came in 65th place with just 3.3 inches. That was only good enough to beat out three cities in the Deep South that almost never see snow: Savannah, Ga.; Columbia, S.C.; and August, Ga.

Dulles International Airport did a little bitter with 6.6 inches, but that still was only good enough for 56th place.

Last winter marked just 1.4 inches of snow at Reagan, and 1.6 inches at Dulles. Still, normal snowfall through Feb. 25 is 13.7 inches at Reagan and 18.3 at Dulles, so the region still missed the average by double digits.

As far as the biggest discrepancy between normal snowfall and actual snowfall, Baltimore wasn't the worst. Charleston, W.V., normally gets 28.3 inches by this point in the season, but so far has just 10.3 inches.

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Images courtesy of the National Weather Service