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December 17, 2011

Remembering the 'whiteout' of 2009

From the Sun's print editions:

Baltimore Sun librarian Paul McCardell provides this guest post:

Do you remember the record snow of Dec. 18-19, 2009, which came on the last weekend before Christmas — one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year? Maryland was hit with 21.1 inches, putting a halt to shopping and keeping most people hunkered down.

This storm broke the previous December record of 14.1 inches set Dec. 11-12, 1960, and the all-time monthly record of 20.4 inches set in December 1966.

Despite the warning, the magnitude of the storm was still surprising. More surprises were ahead that winter, however, with the back-to-back storms of February 2010.

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I remember it well... haha not that long ago. I had just bought a snowblower that Spring, and I thought that was supposed to guarantee 3 years of no major snow! I was very wrong, but at least I was equipped to deal with it!

Posted by: Ken Marsh | December 20, 2011 11:13 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. Frank also answers readers’ weather queries for the newspaper and the blog. Frank Roylance retired in October 2011. Maryland Weather is now being updated by members of The Baltimore Sun staff

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