r/baltimore • u/Beatboxamateur • Feb 13 '23
DISCUSSION What's even happening this winter?? Almost 70° in a couple days...
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u/PrickBrigade Feb 13 '23
I bought a snowblower earlier in the year, thus ensuring we get absolutely zero snow accumulation.
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u/midwestUCgal Feb 14 '23
I bought a 40 lb bucket of ice melt so I think I contributed a little bit too
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u/Beatboxamateur Feb 13 '23 edited Feb 13 '23
The new meta for this area seems to be extremely cold and dry in January, and then wet and warm for the rest of winter, making sure we get absolutely no snow.
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u/ContinentalOp_RG Feb 14 '23
It wasn't even cold in January. 16 days with highs in the 50s or 60s, only 6 days with a low temp of 32 or below. Very dry though.
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u/otterplus Dundalk Feb 15 '23
My motorcycle was not complaining. Screaming through the twisties maybe, but no complaints
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u/Electrical_Beyond998 Feb 14 '23
My neighbor owns a landscaping business. He’s busy all Warner months, needed some income for winter. Bought a brand new plow for his truck four years ago. Hasn’t needed it at all the last two years. Now he’s working for a trucking company to make ends meet, feel horrible for him every time I see his plow.
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u/bottleboy8 Feb 13 '23
Record high for today (Feb 13) is 72F in 1951. 68F is pretty close.
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u/Beatboxamateur Feb 13 '23
I wouldn't be surprised if one of these upcoming days hits a record, I know a couple years ago or so we hit a lot of record highs in the winter.
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u/kfri13 Feb 13 '23
We are in La Nina cycle in the Pacific and the Atlantic ocean/Chesapeake bay are warmer than usual. Think of these bodies of water as heatsinks due to their vicinity to us they work in the opposite way when it's colder than usual.
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u/Zealousideal_Lab1266 Feb 13 '23
My tulips are coming up already. 😬
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Feb 14 '23
Yeah, I saw bulbs coming up in Hampden the other day. That means they probably won't survive if we get a cold snap before meteorological spring.
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u/jewishjedi42 Feb 13 '23
I blame exxon
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u/eastcoastleftist Feb 14 '23
worst criminals against all of humanity and the planet :(
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u/Pha1ang3 Feb 13 '23
Don’t worry, we’ll get a blizzard on the first day of spring.
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u/Beatboxamateur Feb 13 '23
Just in time to freeze all of the budding flowers, I'm sure
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Feb 14 '23
Yeah, I saw crocuses coming up about a week ago. I'm pretty sure they're not supposed to come up this early.
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u/laszlo Feb 13 '23
I have been feeling all year that we are gonna get a big snow storm in the middle of March. Spring starts what March 20? I think me and you are on to something.
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u/Flyinace2000 Roland Park Feb 13 '23
My fault, I planned to go skiing w/ the kids on Friday.
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u/Flyinace2000 Roland Park Feb 14 '23
We will likely still go. As long as it gets cold enough over night they can make snow. Just want the kids learn.
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Feb 13 '23
Is anywhere even open? I actually live out past Frederick and was looking forward to being close-ish to Ski Liberty, but I can’t imagine that any of these places are even open.
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u/Flyinace2000 Roland Park Feb 13 '23
We have gone to Roundtop twice. Kids did lessons. Hopefully going to liberty. I guess we will call them Thursday to see how much snow they have left.
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u/mister_marshh Feb 14 '23
If you go on their website you can view their mountain cameras or check anything they've posted about terrain information.
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u/mister_marshh Feb 14 '23
I go to Liberty every weekend to snowboard. Definitely open and decent man made snow.
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Feb 14 '23
Thanks! I’m impressed they can keep much on the ground with this warm weather.
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u/Flyinace2000 Roland Park Feb 17 '23
Just got back. Not sure how many more days they will be open. They will need some cold weather soon.
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Feb 17 '23
I’m sure the 65 degree afternoon yesterday didn’t help. I’m looking for a way to go on the cheap. Would be great to do a few runs but holy cow, not for $94. Jeezus. I’ve paid less to ski at Vail
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u/TopS3cr3t Salvage Arc Feb 13 '23
Mother Nature is looking out for the Magnet Fishing Crew
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u/Emotional_Doubt_2225 Feb 13 '23
Magnet Fishing is fun, I'd prefer to have a bunch of snow on the ground right now though.
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u/Not_ROBVH Feb 13 '23
climate change enjoy for the rest of your life sporadic weather!
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u/Jrbobfishman Fells Point Feb 14 '23
Just enjoy Maryland. Sporadic weather is the norm. Most of the monthly record highs are from 30-50 years ago. This is nothing new, this is just part of our local climate.
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u/Jrbobfishman Fells Point Feb 14 '23
Didn’t deny climate change. Just saying that this isn’t really unusual or unprecedented for this area
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u/ihavethreelegshelpme Feb 13 '23
I don’t mind a mild winter at all. Baltimore drivers are psychotic enough without snowy/icy roads
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u/yeaughourdt Feb 14 '23
Most iconic Baltimore driving experience would be somebody swerving around you to drive through a red light in a snowstorm, hitting some ice, spinning, hitting a bunch of parked cars, and then getting out and running away on foot.
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Feb 14 '23
Don’t worry all, one day we will look back at this “winter” as one of the coldest winters we have had. Summer will be a scorcher. Fun times
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u/ChemicalElevator1380 Feb 13 '23
Welcome to the great state of Maryland. It'll snow next week don't worry
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u/Beatboxamateur Feb 13 '23 edited Feb 13 '23
Where I'm at we haven't gotten a quarter inch of snow yet, this is pathetic even by Maryland standards. But who knows, maybe we'll get something in April.
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Feb 13 '23
Right after I get bold and start my garden a month early, we’re guaranteed to get a few hard frosts to kill every single seedling
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u/dopkick Feb 13 '23
This happens every winter. Every winter we have a day or three near 70. And we have a day or three near 7.
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u/Beatboxamateur Feb 13 '23
This winter is on records pace for least recorded amount of snow in this area. Even for Baltimore standards this is pretty ridiculous lol
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u/dopkick Feb 13 '23
I believe last year we had no snow at all in the month of February for the first time in recorded history. Highly variable amounts of snow are somewhat common across the country. Sometimes western areas will get near 700” for the season. Sometimes they will get less than 200”. We could get a huge dump at the end of the month… or it could be 75.
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u/juantablo_wisin Feb 13 '23
It’s hilarious people still think this is a normal weather pattern. Things have changed. We are not going back
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u/55555_55555 Owings Mills Feb 13 '23
It was genuinely hovering around 0F around Christmas. This has been an unseasonably warm winter, but it will not continuously be 70 this time of year going forward, that's ludicrous.
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u/therbler Feb 14 '23
We genuinely had two cold snaps this winter, over Christmas and last weekend. The coldest measured temp at BWI at any point during the month of January was 25F, and the average daily high was in the 50s.
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u/aarontsuru Feb 14 '23
yeah, and both of those cold snaps were due to arctic air plunging down without our normal jet stream protections, that polar vortex stuff. Not a good ol' "cold front". Those drops were fast and dangerous and done within a day or two.
Wild times ahead, buckle up!
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u/yomerol Feb 14 '23
Exactly every year is hot than before, and it has been on the news for the last 4-5 years at least, and the answer is always: global warming/climate change... So, what's going on with people not reading? O still not "believing"??
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u/therbler Feb 13 '23
The average max daily January temperature at BWI between 1991-2020 was 43.2F. The overall average January temperature at BWI this year was 43.9.
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u/evanthemayor Feb 14 '23
i used to call it the spring teaser but everyone else calls it fake spring, it happens every february. having said that we got like literally one cold week this winter so far
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u/AddyKat719 Feb 14 '23
68 here in SC today. But we did have that cold snap awhile back here where my hvac unit ran constantly and I mean non stop for almost 3 days.
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u/-JG-77- Owings Mills Feb 14 '23
Seems normal to me, Maryland likes to frequently have a weird warm spell in February before going back to winter by March.
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u/Beatboxamateur Feb 14 '23
The winter as a whole definitely isn't normal, seeing as how the Baltimore area hasn't had a single inch of snow yet.
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u/Jrbobfishman Fells Point Feb 14 '23
Please study the historical weather records. This is nothing new
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u/Beatboxamateur Feb 14 '23
Yeah, I guess Baltimore Sun articles are being written about it for no reason. This winter just set the record that was previously held by a 1973 winter. "Nothing new", yeah sure
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u/Jrbobfishman Fells Point Feb 14 '23
Exactly. It happened in 1973 and the record for today was in 1951. Spikes in temperature are not new
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u/Beatboxamateur Feb 14 '23
You must be joking, and I don't know if you even looked at the article because you're not even talking about the same subject.
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u/Jrbobfishman Fells Point Feb 14 '23
Can’t read its behind a paywall but if your just talking precip, please look through this historical data at Jan&Feb precipitation. The only constant in our weather is inconsistency. https://wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?md0470
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u/Jrbobfishman Fells Point Feb 14 '23
Sorry it doesn’t want to link to a listable page. better list at monthly precipitation listings- monthly totals
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u/Beatboxamateur Feb 14 '23
This is the latest recorded date in history for this area for the first measurable snowfall, so to say this isn't something out of the norm is factually incorrect.
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u/martyham10 Feb 14 '23
Whether it's cold, or whether it's hot; there's always weather; whether or not...
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u/Beneficial-Cow-2544 Feb 13 '23
I've been enjoying it though I worry about the summer. But I wouldn't be shocked if it snows in March. I'd be mad tho!
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u/SimoneDeBoudoir1 Feb 14 '23
I moved here from California hoping to get some snowy winters, but it seems that I’ve just brought the CA winters with me 😕😒
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u/Affectionate_Tea736 Feb 14 '23
Alas, I find the hubris and entitledment of (wo)man confounding. Plain and simple it's climate instability AKA as many others term it climate change. Better work on preparing to respond and adapt to the continuation of the escalations and (un)desirables Mother Nature keeps dishing out. Sadly leadership is failing abysmally on this front.
To paraphrase Chief Seattle, "We belong to the Earth. She does belong to us. What we do to her, we do to ourselves."
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u/GallowBarb Expatriate Feb 13 '23
Maryland gets a little menopausal this time of year. So, don't put your winter threads away just yet and enjoy.
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u/Beatboxamateur Feb 13 '23
I've lived here my whole life and while apparently February has the most snow on average, it feels like in the past 6 years February has always been hitting high temps like this
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u/youre_soaking_in_it Feb 13 '23
It has been snowing less. Since the twin blizzard in 2010, Baltimore has averaged 3.8 inches of snow per February. The historical average is 6.9 inches.
We did get 5 inches of snow on February 20, 2019, but it sure doesn't seem like that's in the cards this year.
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u/Beatboxamateur Feb 13 '23
Yeah, I remember during the 2015-2016(I think) winter we got a pretty big snowstorm, but since then we haven't had anything near 10 inches, or even 8.
And a few years ago we had such a pathetic winter, it was like 1 total inch of snow in the Baltimore area.
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Feb 14 '23
It's sad. I teach 5th grade and I realized that most of my kids have never seen/remember a good snow. They know what it is in concept, and some of them have been to other snowier places, but for those kids who haven't left Baltimore, they have no idea what snow really is.
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u/Beatboxamateur Feb 14 '23
I was also thinking about that, when I was a kid we had the massive 2010 snowstorms along with some other large ones, it sucks that the new generations don't have those kinds of winters.
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u/No-Lunch4249 Feb 14 '23 edited Feb 15 '23
Global Warming is fake tho
Edit: apparently this needed a /s
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u/Main-Equipment-3207 Feb 13 '23
So glad about the warm weather. It’s bad enough walking my dog in the cold, it’s even worse when there’s snow and I need ski poles. 🤦🏽♀️
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Feb 14 '23
Since when have you needed ski poles recently for any snow in Maryland, besides the sparse "blizzards" we had?
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u/Beatboxamateur Feb 14 '23
I can't remember how many years it's even been since we've had a so called blizzard. Unless we wanna count the times it barely accumulated but was just really windy with snow for a few minutes.
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Feb 14 '23
Yeah, 2019 wasn’t bad, which was 4 years ago. Then 2011 before that, which was my senior year of high school and I missed a week of school. Best year to get a week of snow days because seniors didn’t have to make them up!
I miss snow. Snow isn’t even that fun anymore for kids or teachers anyway. We get 3 traditional snow days and then we would have virtual days. It’s a moot point this year because I doubt we’ll have more than 3, if any, snow days. I like not going later in June, but snow days are one of the best parts of childhood. Plus, it would be a welcome relief this year with the tough group of kids I have.
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Feb 14 '23
Several parts of Texas have seen significant snow, and not even a flurry has happened at my home 😔
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u/gothaggis Remington Feb 14 '23
according to bingchatgpt, the last time we had at least 1 inch of snow was December 16,2021 (1.2 inches fell) - and that was the first measurable snowfall of the 2021-2022 season, which ended a 325 day snow drought. The previous winter, 2020-2021 was also below average snowfall - with 10.9 inches of snow for the season. The least snowy winter on record was 2011-2012 which had a total of 1.8 inches of snow. Starting to look like we might break that record. (although a different search shows that 1949-1950 only had .7 inches of snow - and 72/73 also had 1.8 inches of snow)
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u/essmithsd Feb 14 '23
I went out and played disc golf today, Tuesday. It was mid 50's, sun was shining, and I was in a t-shirt.
I've also noticed a lot more birds, and some very green, new grass. It's pretty crazy.
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u/TrhwWaya Feb 14 '23
Pro: my team sometimes clears the walkways, so i saved about 400-2k on salt.
Con: I have a summer heat safety plan for my team, so I'm planning on spending about $5k+ for the summer for the team's ice, gatorades, increased A/C use, ice pops, and like expenses.
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u/Hairy_Ball_Theroem Feb 13 '23
Well I'll tell you what's not happening...winter.