NoVa's Snow Ranking Is Absolutely Embarrassing

We are just a couple of days from March, and yet here we sit in Northern Virginia, almost completely snowless. 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, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Even cities in the South easily beat the D.C. area, according to NOAA's chart, which is embedded at the bottom of this post. Out of the 68 cities and regions in the Eastern U.S. included in the chart, 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 Augusta, Ga.

Dulles International Airport did a little bitter with 6.6 inches, but that still was only good enough for 56th place. Baltimore-Washington International got 8.7 inches, which puts it at 50th place.

Surprisingly, we're still doing better than last winter, when we got 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 we still missed the average by double digits.

As far as the biggest discrepancy between normal snowfall and actual snowfall, NoVa 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.

Updated 2017-2018 seasonal snowfall totals as of February 25th. pic.twitter.com/t1ZwsMweqW
— NWS Eastern Region (@NWSEastern) February 26, 2018

ARLINGTON, VA- FEBRUARY 05: Snow removal equipment sits ready to work at Reagan National Airport on February 5, 2010 in Arlington, Virginia. Most afternoon flights have been cancelled due to the in-coming snow storm. The Washington area is under a winter storm warning with the region expecting to get up to two feet of snow before its over late Saturday night. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)