Baltimore was 5th snowiest U.S. city
After spending a brief period at the top of the snow pile, it looks like Baltimore sledded to 5th position by the season's end in the competition for the title of "Snowiest U.S. City 2009-10."
Here are the top 10 finishers, according to a Web site called Golden Snow Globe. No idea who they are, so I can't vouch for their numbers. I know the total listed for Baltimore (80.4 inches) is no longer valid. The National Weather Service forecast office at Sterling, Va. has recalculated and cut the official total for BWI-Marshall Airport to 77 inches. That pushed Mobtown to 5th place, instead of 4th as listed on the site.
Here's now it should look:
1. Syracuse, N.Y.: 106 inches
2. Erie, Pa.: 90.9 inches
3. Rochester, N.Y.: 89.6 inches
4. Philadelphia, Pa.: 78.7 inches
5. Baltimore, Md.: 77 inches
6. Pittsburgh, Pa.: 76.9 inches
7. Buffalo, N.Y.: 74.1 inches
8. GrandRapids, Mich.: 70.2 inches
9. Fort Collins, Colo.: 69.6 inches
10. Lakewood, Colo.: 68.2 inches
(SUN PHOTO: Algerina Perna)
Comments
Any idea what happened to foot's forecast? Site has been down since at least yesterday.
FR: I noticed that today. I'll check.
Posted by: bwicrab | March 11, 2010 7:42 PM
Thanks a lot, National Weather Service forecast office at Sterling, Virginia. You couldn't let Baltimore be #4 just this once, could you! Would it have killed you to fudge the total accumulation upwards by just 1.8 inches? Well, guess what...I am boycotting you from now on. Yeah, that's right. How do you like THEM apples!
Posted by: Todd | March 11, 2010 7:59 PM
Darn...we're behind Philly again!
Posted by: Cy | March 12, 2010 9:16 AM
FootsForecast was upgrading the servers, back on-line now
FR: Mr. Foot has been having server issues. Here's his note:
"Frank: An update—Apparently the hosting server went down this morning – but when it resolves we will be on blogspot.com
[That's http://www.footsforecast.blogspot.com ]
"Sorry. What a time it has been – all this on top of an observation yesterday and then this storm !
"We are going to reestablish .org and found some techniques that should make the switch much faster."
Posted by: Mike | March 12, 2010 9:26 AM
Hey, at least we beat Pittsburgh for once.
Posted by: Jim | March 12, 2010 11:21 AM
So, I'm assuming they don't count mountainous cities such as Oakland, MD? Because my uncle lives up in Garrett County and they've had over 200 inches so far.
FR: Don't know what their criteria are. Would have said "big" cities, but how big are those Colorado towns? Clearly Oakland would blow all of these out of the competition this winter. There are towns in Alaska, too, that regularly get more than these cities.
Posted by: Matthew | March 12, 2010 6:37 PM
Check with NOAA. None of your top 10 make it into the top 5 according to NOAA.
Posted by: Jack | February 2, 2011 3:40 PM