Anonymous wrote:I’m so excited not to have any snow!!! Am I the only one that isn’t a fan?

I am with you! I am happy to have no snow and warmer days.

I'm not a fan of all-winter snow but like how DC has been in the past -- a couple big storms so you can enjoy the snow and then it melts and most of the winter you don't have to deal with it.

Anonymous wrote:I’m so excited not to have any snow!!! Am I the only one that isn’t a fan?

+1. While I prefer snow to some other weather (ice) I am fine with mild winters.

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.

Anonymous wrote:I want a January 2016-style thumping, whallopping snowstorm. That wasn't so long ago. Three feet of snow is possible.

Also, as a side note, I'm glad I grew up in the 90s before virtual school was a thing. Snow days were purely magical.

+1

Anonymous wrote:I’m so excited not to have any snow!!! Am I the only one that isn’t a fan?

I'm with you! I'm counting the days until my youngest is off to college (two years!) and DH and I can move somewhere where there is no chance of snow. In fact, we were just talking about this the other day. We lived in Charleston, SC the first two years we were married and would love to move back. We can't wait

I want a January 2016-style thumping, whallopping snowstorm. That wasn't so long ago. Three feet of snow is possible.

Also, as a side note, I'm glad I grew up in the 90s before virtual school was a thing. Snow days were purely magical.

I’m so excited not to have any snow!!! Am I the only one that isn’t a fan?

Anonymous wrote:It will in February and early March.

Right, but the sun angle and warm ground temps in late winter makes the snow melt too quickly. We need a good thumping of snow in January or early Feb, with below-freezing temps right after, so that it lasts and we can enjoy it.

My daughter vividly remembers when she was a tiny 5 year old, and there was a blizzard that dumped more snow than she could easily climb out of, right in our neighborhood. Every year, she asks whether that could happen again, but I remind her she's getting taller and taller, and it's not likely that we'd have a 4ft dump of snow in the DC area!

She says she wants to move to Canada

My friends in NYC have not had any snow, either, and there is none forecast for the upcoming week. The record for the longest stretch of winter in NYC without snow is Jan. 29. We will see.

It will in February and early March.

It's so depressing.

Supposedly January historically is the coldest month but February is the snowiest.

It isn't looking good but we're only halfway into the season.

Ugh. Can't wait to move to a place with real snow.

The long range forecast shows mostly 50s. No snow in sight, and only a few days in the 40s where the night low temperatures just maybe might be low enough for snow but no precipitation forecasted. This winter is lame. At the same time I'm afraid that after a mild winter we'll have one snowstorm at the end of March like when all the poor cherry blossoms are trying to bloom.