Another Year, Another Snow Contest!

We usher in December tomorrow so it’s time for another season of the Weather Mill, and as always we will start the winter season with the 16th Annual Weather Mill Snow Contest. Simply follow the link and pick the day and time that you think the first one inch snow of the year will occur at BWI airport. I will take submissions and edits through next weekend, Sunday, December 4th.

Snow Contest

Last year’s winners were Andrea Katkow and Alessandra Ciccone, and there will be a large-scale event for the distribution of their major awards in the near future.

As far as what to expect this winter, we are in our third consecutive year of a La Nina which typically does not bode well for mid-Atlantic snow lovers. In fact, the next week or so will likely test the patience of those of us looking for some snow to add to the holiday atmosphere, but the good news is that there have been some encouraging signals in the mid to long range models recently. They have been advertising a deep trough developing over the eastern half of the US mid-month which might be a precursor to good things ahead. Hopefully, not only will that come to fruition, but also that it will be a persistent pattern for the winter.

In the meantime, things will be pretty quiet as we wait for some real winter weather to arrive. Good luck to those that enter the contest!