Winter Trivia: Has DCA Ever Received More Snow than BOS

[donsutherland1]

In 8 winters, Washington, DC received more snowfall than Boston. The largest difference was 15.9" in Winter 1908-09. One two occasions (1935-36/1936-37 and 1978-79/1979-80), DCA received more snowfall than Boston in consecutive winters.

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Season   Boston   DCA
1899-00   25.0   35.6
1908-09   20.1   36.0
1921-22   37.6   42.5
1935-36   30.0   31.8
1936-37    9.0   20.2
1946-47   19.4   20.0
1978-79   27.5   37.7
1979-80   12.7   20.1


[Dave C]

I remember the 78-79 season well, I think there were some storms in March that blasted the Mid-Atlantic but stayed to our south. Off course we had our time in 77-78 with the blizzard of 78 as well as several other major events that year. Shows how everything averages out in time.

[Anonymous]

Don,

Are you ready to up your snowfall totals for IDA and points NW of DC yet? Looks like Feb and Mar could produce big snows for the Mid-Atlantic region

[Anonymous]

February 19, 1979.

Yeah I remember that well. I was staying at the Watergate at Landmark apartment towers in Arlington, VA with my dad at the time. The snow started at 3pm Feb 18, then grew heavier at about 9pm with rising winds. Between 12 midnight and 8am Feb 19, we got 19 inches of snow. I was a teenager at the time and my dad thought it was in my best interest to go to bed at 12 midnight so I did and I missed seeing the greatest snowfall of my entire life. Yeah I am a middle aged "old" man now and I really need to grow up about the snow but I can't help myself, I still want 36 inches of snow here LOL. The next morning drifts covered the cars, which we could not see. The landscape was completely different! We had been buried by twenty three inches of snow! There were drifts 8 feet tall! No one was driving, everyone was walking. I enjoyed jebwalk after jebwalk! I was digging snow to beat the band, which is a lot more than I can say of the Virginia Department of Transportation, whose vehicles and plows were hopelessly mired in the snow LOL! Yeah I always talk SMACK about the hapless VDOT.

What a wonderful time that was!! The snow was so deep that we could hardly walk in it. I was relegated to jebwalks in shoveled areas for over a week!

-Jeb