Wednesday about 2"-4" of snow fell in Central Virginia on average, with 2.8" recorded at Richmond International Airport. We are now about a foot below the top seasonal snowfall for Richmond, but just to our north, seasonal snowfall records have been blown away by big snowstorms this season. Here are the latest new records for most snowfall in a single Winter season:
Baltimore/Washington International Airport: 79.9" (breaks the previously held record of 62.5" in Winter 1995-96)
Dulles International Airport: 63.5" (breaks the previously held record of 61.9" in Winter 1995-96)
Reagan National Airport: 55.9" (breaks the previously held record of 54.4" in Winter 1898-99)
Richmond's seasonal snowfall is now tied with the Winter of 1921-22 at 27.5" for the 12th snowiest Winter on record.
For comparison, here are some of the other snowfalls to date for this Winter. You can see that the Mid-Atlantic cities have seen more snow than parts of New England or the Rockies!
Burlington, VT 68.3"
Caribou, ME 57.0"
Bangor, ME 52.1"
Harrisburg, PA 52.0"
Charleston, WV 42.4"
Denver, CO 41.4"
Newark, NJ 30.4"
Boston, MA 30.1"
Salt Lake City, UT 22.7"
Albany, NY 22.3"
Colorado Springs, CO 20.1"
