Snow on Oct. 10 !
I'll bet that got your attention. But it's true. This Sunday, Oct. 10, is the 25th anniversary of the earliest measureable snowfall on record in Baltimore. A cold rain the night before, which postponed the 1979 World Series opener at Memorial Stadium between the Orioles and the Pittsburgh Pirates, turned to snow overnight. An official total of 0.3 inch of wet snow was recorded at BWI before it ended. There was more accumulation to the north and west of the city. It coated grass and trees and stuck to roads in Carroll and northern Baltimore counties. The Evening Sun story by Nick Yengich and Wiley Hall 3rd that afternoon said more than 80,000 BG&E customers lost power during the storm as heavily laden trees, many still in leaf, sagged and snapped power lines. Baltimore County closed seven schools when they went dark. We survived. But the Orioles lost the Series, 4-3.
