Didn't it snow on Opening Day at Camden Yards once?

Opening Day March 31st 2003

They had to delay the game as a matter of Fact

I was there and do remember even before the start of the game that it was a cold and blustery day.

You're exactly right about Opening Day 2003. But here's the top of the baseball snow story I recalled. I guess the snow wasn't such a big deal. I gave it only a passing nod. Anybody remember this day?:

By Frank D. Roylance
Staff Writer

Published on Friday, April 3, 1992
Section: NEWS Page: 1A
Edition: FINAL
© 1992 The Baltimore Sun

Despite snow flurries and a chilling wind, thousands of people turned out
at Oriole Park at Camden Yards yesterday to get their first good look at the
place.
Fans in parkas, office workers in pinstripes and the merely curious came
to the ballpark at lunchtime. Admission was free.
And last night, hundreds more gathered outside the stadium for a pep rally
to greet Orioles players just back from Florida, many of them seeing their new
baseball home for the first time.
The rally was a brief affair, but not a disappointment to the baseball
fanatics collecting free pennants and balls handed out by a costumed Tony the
Tiger in a cereal promotion and then getting autographs on them from players.
Veteran catcher Rick Dempsey was the biggest crowd-pleaser, climbing over
a barrier fence to be with the crowd after the rally as other players headed
away, into the stadium confines.
"Everything is so first-class. It's breathtaking, it's so exciting," said
Mr. Dempsey, apologizing for an inability to say how much it meant to him --
and how much more exciting it will be if he makes the team's final cut and
takes the field at Monday's Opening Day.
In the earlier ballpark open house, people strolled through the stands and
sampled the food. The reviews were mainly raves, except for problems with
traffic and parking near the stadium.
"I tell you, when I came through here it just overwhelmed me," said Jim
Lusby, 42, a season ticket-holder from Finksburg. Peering out from the plaza
above the high right-field wall, he pronounced the new stadium's old-time
atmosphere "magnificent.
"I feel like I'm back in yesteryear," he said.

And here's the top of the story Joe Christensen wrote about SNOpening Day 2003:

By Joe Christensen
SUN STAFF

Published on Tuesday, April 1, 2003
Section: SPORTS Page: 1C
Edition: FINAL

© 2003 The Baltimore Sun

The seasons seemed to change. Blue skies turned gray and then back again.
There was a snow dispute and a snow delay. Day became night. The Orioles
looked listless and cursed, and then they looked like charmed, comeback kings.
Opening Day at Camden Yards turned into an epic saga yesterday - the
longest home opener by innings in Orioles history and their longest opener
anywhere since 1966.
An announced sellout crowd of 46,257 turned into a sea of scattered
individuals. The Cleveland Indians took a 12th-inning lead on Omar Vizquel's
run-scoring single, and the Orioles scored the tying run on a passed ball.
The game finally ended in the 13th inning, when Indians center fielder
Milton Bradley misjudged a line drive by Gary Matthews with the bases loaded.
The ball sailed over Bradley's head, and Jose Leon crossed home plate, giving
the Orioles a 6-5 triumph.
"It was the strangest game," said Orioles right fielder Jay Gibbons. "I
couldn't see because of the snow, and then the sun was in my eyes two minutes
later. I've never been in anything like this."
Orioles starter Rodrigo Lopez made the first pitch at 3:22 p.m., under
clear blue skies, with the temperature a rather pleasant 48 degrees. Indians
reliever Jake Westbrook delivered the final pitch at 7:20 p.m., with the skies
dark and the temperature feeling about 20 degrees cooler.
"It was pretty weird," Orioles manager Mike Hargrove said. "It was kind of
warm in [pre-game] introductions and got so cold, you could hardly breathe."
The scene turned surreal in the top of the second inning, as thick,
feather-like snowflakes started falling and swirling in the wind.
When the Orioles went to bat in the second, the blue sky was back, and by
the time they took the field again, it had resumed snowing. The Orioles
finished last season with a 4-32 collapse, dropping their final 12 games, but
somehow the fates had never seemed so cruel.
Matthews was in center field, straining to see the ball.
"I couldn't see the plate," he said. "I couldn't see the pitches and the
locations."
Cleveland took a 3-1 lead with three runs off Lopez in the third inning,
and he was the victim of two bad breaks. With one out, Matt Lawton hit a
potential inning-ending double-play ball to Orioles first baseman Jeff Conine,
but Conine's throw to second base was wide right and bounced into left field,
allowing Bradley to score from second.
Then came a play the Orioles will probably remember all season, if not
longer. Ellis Burks lifted a fly ball to right field, and it was so snowy,
almost nobody in the ballpark could see it.
Second baseman Jerry Hairston gave chase, and first base umpire Chuck
Meriwether moved down the right-field line, ducking in case the ball was near.
Gibbons ran toward the right-field line, and the first anyone saw the ball
again, it was bouncing behind Gibbons toward center field.
"I never saw it," Matthews said.
"I had no idea," Gibbons said.
"I knew it was a pop-up down the right-field line," Hargrove said.
"The hitter never saw it. The umpire didn't see it, and when he did see it,
it was 20 foot fair and rolling between Jerry and Gibby."
Burks was credited with a run-scoring single, as Vizquel scored from second
base.
Hargrove seemed convinced the ball landed foul, tailing right, and then
bounced left off the wall. He made his case to plate umpire Tim Welke, to no
avail. Welke stopped play, and the game resumed 13 minutes later under sunny
blue skies.
Afterward, Hargrove had no hard feelings.
"It was tough conditions for everybody," he said. "It really was. Given
clear conditions, it would have been called correctly."