Well now, that wasn't so bad was it? A nice, small, manageable late-autumn snowstorm. Except for the traffic, that is. Which was horrible. And the early dismissals, which are always a headache. And all that scraping this morning. Okay, maybe it was a pain. In a way.

But hey. It was beautiful, right? Snow lacing the trees and decorating all the rooftops and making the place look like an actual Christmas scene, which it hardly ever does before Christmas around here. We LIKE this! Snow - at least at this end of the winter season, if it doesn't pile up to a foot or two and paralyze the place - is a GOOD thing. We can use the moisture, however it's delivered. It will melt nice and slowly and soak into the soil, where it's badly needed.

Here are the numbers. The official total for Baltimore, as measured at BWI, was 4.7 inches. We had 4.5 inches out on the WeatherDeck in Cockeysville. But they measured 7.3 inches out near Deep Run in Carroll County - maybe the deepest anywhere for this storm. There were 6.4 inches in Glen Burnie; 5 inches in Jacksonville; 1.3 inches in La Plata; 4.5 inches in the city; 5.5 inches in Fallston and 5.4 inches in Columbia.

Here are some other tallies from around the region. And here are more.

The total at BWI from yesterday's storm was more than we've seen in 15 of the last 20 Decembers in Baltimore.  But four of the last six Decembers have produced 4 inches or more. The long-term average for a December at BWI is just 1.7 inches.