The forecast for the snow storm that is supposed to roll into Southern Maryland between 4 and 6 p.m. on Feb. 16 shows the potential to be added to the list of President’s Day blizzards that have struck the area over the past few decades.
WUSA 9 has predicted that Southern Maryland will get between 8 and 12 inches of snow.
There have been two other President’s Day storms of record to have hit the area over the past 36 years.
In Feb. 1979 the President’s Day Storm hit the DMV are and was said to be ”the worst storm in 57 years to strike the Washington area” according to NOAA. The snow fell on Feb. 18-19 up to 20 inches in the Maryland and Virginia area and fell at rates of two to three inches per hour.
On President’s Day in 2003 a storm hit the DMV with 15 to 30 inches covering the ground from Washington to Boston. Baltimore had 28.2 inches. This blizzard, also known as the President’s Day Storm II, lasted for six days and broke records on the East Coast in the United States and Canada.
Do you think this incoming snow storm will be President’s Day Storm 3.0?
