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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There have been so many years with no real snow since I've lived in DC, that this doesn't seem that weird to me? I've lived here for 20 years and can only remember a few years with heavy snow. Most years get at least one snow storm but I grew up in a place where it's normal to get several feet of snow every month from January to March, so it barely registers to me.

Do we really get noticeably less snow now than DC got in the 80s and 90s? I'm not a climate change denialist -- I know it's real. It's definitely warmer than it was 20 years ago. But climate change doesn't automatically mean less snow (sometimes it can me more snow due to more volatile weather). So I'm just wondering if it was really that uncommon to have a very mild winter in the mid-Atlantic a generation ago. I feel like it's been pretty mild since I moved here in 2001.[/quote]
I think this area has had many winters where you don’t have frequent accumulation, but you when you do have accumulation, it’s either less than an inch or substantial. It tends to be boom or bust, and anything in between is infrequent. We don’t usually get 2”, and then another 2” and then another 3”. We get very little most of the time, but it seems like we used to get walloped every 2-5 years with one or two snowfalls that would have a big impact. We got 30” in Gaithersburg back in early 2016, but I’m not sure we’ve had a single snowfall with 6” or more since then.[/quote]

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