Thursday, February 11, 2010

East Coast Storms Make History

Preliminary seasonal records for the 2010 Winter Storm and Blizzard events that began February 5thcontinuing through February 11, 2010 break snowfall records established 100 years ago. Official snowfall totals for the Metropolitan Washington DC area are as follows: Washington National Airport saw 55.9 inches, breaking the record set in 1898 of 54.4 inches; Thurgood Marshall Airport in Baltimore had an official snowfall of 79.9 inches, breaking a 1995-96 record of 62.5 inches at Dulles International Airport, the snowfall record of 61.9 inches set in 1995-96 was broken with this year’s total of 75.0 inches. For the first time in at least 30 years, the U.S. Postal Service did not deliver mail on Feb 6 and Feb 10.

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