Following a cooler than typical December, it's been nearly wall-to-wall warmth with hardly any snow.
Taking everything together, one of the top-five warmest winters on record seems inevitable based on averages during the core months of December, January and February — also known as meteorological or climatological winter. While February still has two weeks left, data plugged in from the latest forecast models indicate this winter should rank as the fourth-warmest in the modern record.All of this warmth has made it difficult to snow. This winter’s 0.
February has seen more in the way of cold than January, but that’s not saying much. The month’s early that gripped New England skirted Washington. And it didn’t linger, with warm air flooding back into the area in the following days.Through Tuesday, February was averaging 4.5 degrees above normal. Warm to occasionally very warm conditions seem poised to remain in control for the rest of the month.While the Super Bowl Sunday stormin the highest elevations of the central and southern Appalachians, mainly rain fell elsewhere.
Season-to-date snowfall of 0.4 inches for D.C. is the fourth-lowest on record back to the 1880s. It’s the least since 0.1 inches to date in 1997-1998, which is all that fell that year. Normally, we’ve seen about 9.5 inches to date, meaning this year we have a deficit of around nine inches. The mere 0.4 inches of snow to date at Dulles International Airport is the lowest on record there. In 1972-1973, Dulles recorded its seasonal low of 2.2 inches.Snow is also lacking in the hilly areas well north and west of Washington, such as Damascus in Montgomery County, where just 0.5 inches have fallen, and Bluemont in Loudoun County, which has only seen 0.4 inches. Even into Martinsburg and Hagerstown, only 0.5 to 1.0 inches have fallen so far.
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