This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareHow many times in recent years do you recall ambling outside in 70-degree weather totally bewildered during the winter months?Thanks mostly to a combination of human-caused climate change and urbanization, winters in Washington are warming hastily and taking on an entirely new character. Our winter climate is on a southbound journey, with nothing in the way.Over the past five decades, the region has seen winter average temperatures increase between three and five degrees.Based on from the University of Maryland Center for...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareHow many times in recent years do you recall ambling outside in 70-degree weather totally bewildered during the winter months?Thanks mostly to a combination of human-caused climate change and urbanization, winters in Washington are warming hastily and taking on an entirely new character. Our winter climate is on a southbound journey, with nothing in the way.Over the past five decades, the region has seen winter average temperatures increase between three and five degrees.Based on from the University of Maryland Center for...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift Share * until 7 p.m. | until 11 p.m. *5:30 p.m. — 50,000 customers without power as storms waneAccording to , about 50,000 customers are without power in D.C., Maryland and Virginia after the storms which have now mostly pushed over the Chesapeake Bay and Southern Maryland, where they have lost a bit of their earlier punch.The storms produced dozens of reports of downed trees across the region and gusts to at least 60 mph. Doppler radar estimated gusts over 70 mph just above the ground but it’s not clear whether winds that...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift Share * until 7 p.m. | until 11 p.m. *5:30 p.m. — 50,000 customers without power as storms waneAccording to , about 50,000 customers are without power in D.C., Maryland and Virginia after the storms which have now mostly pushed over the Chesapeake Bay and Southern Maryland, where they have lost a bit of their earlier punch.The storms produced dozens of reports of downed trees across the region and gusts to at least 60 mph. Doppler radar estimated gusts over 70 mph just above the ground but it’s not clear whether winds that...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareOut with the old and in with the new. A fresh set of data, incorporating the latest decade of weather statistics, shows Washington’s long-term decline in snowfall continues.Washington’s new “normal” snowfall, based on average amounts between 1991 and 2020, has dropped to 13.8 inches. During the three decades from 1981 to 2010, it was 15.4 inches. This recent decline reflects a steep downward trend that began a century ago. For comparable 30-year periods in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Washington’s average snowfall was...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareOut with the old and in with the new. A fresh set of data, incorporating the latest decade of weather statistics, shows Washington’s long-term decline in snowfall continues.Washington’s new “normal” snowfall, based on average amounts between 1991 and 2020, has dropped to 13.8 inches. During the three decades from 1981 to 2010, it was 15.4 inches. This recent decline reflects a steep downward trend that began a century ago. For comparable 30-year periods in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Washington’s average snowfall was...WW…