Where’s all the snow? Weak winter wreaks havoc on some businesses, creates opportunity for others
We don’t know about you, Baltimore, but “Winter Wonderland” was particularly triggering this past holiday season. The region has seen a gray, dreary, mostly snow-free winter, with the first measurable snowfall not coming until just a few weeks ago. And even then, it barely registered — just 0.2 inches. This is not normal. Typically, Maryland sees an average of 20 inches of snow in a season. Until this year, Baltimore’s weakest winter in terms of snowfall was the 1949-1950 season, when just 0.7 inches fell, according to Brendon Rubin-Oster, lead forecaster at the Baltimore/Washington forecast office of the National Weather service. “We could beat that record this year,” Rubin-Oster said.