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Record snow last week in Baltimore. Who knew?

I guess I was asleep at the switch. Baltimore had a record snowfall last Friday and it got no mention here whatsoever. "Huh?" you say.

It turns out that the instruments at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport recorded a trace of snow on Friday, the 9th, along with some rain. In all, it added up to 0.11 inch of precipitation. It was the first in what has turned out to be (so far) five straight days of drippy skies. (Less than a half-inch total so far.) Some observers in the northern and western suburbs also reported some flurries of fat flakes that morning - the first of the season all around.

Anyway, looking back through the weather archives, I find that a "trace" of snow just happens to be the record snowfall for Baltimore for a Nov. 9. The last time it happened was in 1971.

So, that means last Friday's flakes at BWI tied the record for snowfall for Baltimore on a Nov. 9.

Only three more dates this fall have record snowfall of just a trace - less than 0.1-inch. Those are Nov. 16, 18 and 21. The next after that is April 2.

 

Posted by Frank Roylance on November 13, 2007 10:16 AM |
                    

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About Frank Roylance
Frank Roylance is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. He came to Baltimore from New Bedford, Mass. in 1980 to join the old Evening Sun. He moved to the morning Sun when the papers merged in 1992, and has spent most of his time since covering science, including astronomy and the weather. One of The Baltimore Sun's first online Web logs, the Weather Blog debuted in October 2004. In June 2006 Frank also began writing comments on local weather and stargazing for The Baltimore Sun's print Weather Page.
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