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January 2026 Medium/Long Range Discussion


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While we watch the digital snowfall totals pile up and hope some of that comes into fruition, I thought it would be a good time to take a look back at the historic 10-year snow drought. Very impressive numbers, and we will need some fairly hefty snowfall in 2026 just to keep pace - especially at Baltimore, where nearly three feet (35.1") would need to fall just to prevent 2017-2026 from being even less snowy than 2016-2025.  To put that into perspective, only 18 calendar years at Baltimore have seen more than 35.1" of snow!

 

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Just now, TheClimateChanger said:

While we watch the digital snowfall totals pile up and hope some of that comes into fruition, I thought it would be a good time to take a look back at the historic 10-year snow drought. Very impressive numbers, and we will need some fairly hefty snowfall in 2026 just to keep pace - especially at Baltimore, where nearly three feet (35.1") would need to fall just to prevent 2017-2026 from being even less snowy than 2016-2025.  To put that into perspective, only 18 calendar years at Baltimore have seen more than 35.1" of snow!

 

Same story in the District, where the 10-year period ending 12/31/2025 narrowly beat the 10-year period 12/31/2024. I wonder if 2017-2026 will outdo 2016-2025 and 2015-2024. Will be interesting to see. At least 22.2" is needed to avoid a new record - a very solid tally for the District.

 

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24 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

While we watch the digital snowfall totals pile up and hope some of that comes into fruition, I thought it would be a good time to take a look back at the historic 10-year snow drought. Very impressive numbers, and we will need some fairly hefty snowfall in 2026 just to keep pace - especially at Baltimore, where nearly three feet (35.1") would need to fall just to prevent 2017-2026 from being even less snowy than 2016-2025.  To put that into perspective, only 18 calendar years at Baltimore have seen more than 35.1" of snow!

 

"Watching digital snowfall pile up?". Not in this forum sir.

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34 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

While we watch the digital snowfall totals pile up and hope some of that comes into fruition, I thought it would be a good time to take a look back at the historic 10-year snow drought. Very impressive numbers, and we will need some fairly hefty snowfall in 2026 just to keep pace - especially at Baltimore, where nearly three feet (35.1") would need to fall just to prevent 2017-2026 from being even less snowy than 2016-2025.  To put that into perspective, only 18 calendar years at Baltimore have seen more than 35.1" of snow!

 

Well you thought wrong. 

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46 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

While we watch the digital snowfall totals pile up and hope some of that comes into fruition, I thought it would be a good time to take a look back at the historic 10-year snow drought. Very impressive numbers, and we will need some fairly hefty snowfall in 2026 just to keep pace - especially at Baltimore, where nearly three feet (35.1") would need to fall just to prevent 2017-2026 from being even less snowy than 2016-2025.  To put that into perspective, only 18 calendar years at Baltimore have seen more than 35.1" of snow!

 

No surprise that the two least snowiest decades also had like 4-5 La ninas. Back in the 70s...between two double-dip la ninas was a super niño that utterly torched everything! So that automatically knocked off 5 years. Now here we are again during this period of time where we've had 6 in the last 10 years. So combine that with what we've lost on the margins...oof! 

And DC only having to get 22" this winter makes sense as their snowfall during tjis stretch has been better than Baltimore's (including a footer in Jan 2019 that Baltimore only got 4.8" from).

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1 hour ago, TheClimateChanger said:

While we watch the digital snowfall totals pile up and hope some of that comes into fruition, I thought it would be a good time to take a look back at the historic 10-year snow drought. Very impressive numbers, and we will need some fairly hefty snowfall in 2026 just to keep pace - especially at Baltimore, where nearly three feet (35.1") would need to fall just to prevent 2017-2026 from being even less snowy than 2016-2025.  To put that into perspective, only 18 calendar years at Baltimore have seen more than 35.1" of snow!

 

Same down this way

2016-2025 calendar year total 193.6, a 19.4 average, almost 7 inches per year below 1991-2020 average. 

2023's 2.0 and 2024's 5.7 were absolutely clusters down here. Last year's and 2018's matching 41.4's semi-saved a terrible 10 year run. 

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6 minutes ago, wxmeddler said:

I plotted it out graphically. Ouch.
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Speaking of graphics, really like purdue's snowfall climatology page: https://mrcc.purdue.edu/resources/climateTools/snowfallclimatology 

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Snowfall days in this case being 1 inch or greater. But you can play with that. Can also check monthly snowfall. Sad seeing March and December become so weak. November of course is also basically extinct, even if it obviously was never really a snowfall month when it had been colder.

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