Tell me about the winters in DC?

Question

The last time I was there in November, it was still nice weather. Does it snow there and what is the coldest temps during winter season?

Answer 1

it is really cold due to humidity. I froze their! and it was not really snowing. just the humidity!

Answer 2

It gets mildly cold, low 40's for the highs. There is always one week in winter where it is really cold in the morning, sometimes around 5. There isn't a whole lot of snow, but when it does snow it causes chaos. In an average year we do not get more than 8 inches at a time, if that, but because there are so many people from all over the US and world in the DC area that 4 inches is enough to virtually close down the city. Every ten or so years there will be the 2 foot snow storm, but those are rare.

Answer 3

It's damn and chilly, usually. It does snow, but anything more than 3 or 4 inches at a time is rare. A foot of snow would be almost unheard of - it's happened but I've only seen it once that I can remember and I grew up 5 miles outside DC. The coldest it's likely to get is usually low-mid 20s at night, at the coldest, and highs in the low 40s during the day. Sometimes warmer than that... it's not always predictable. SO it's colder than the deep south obviously, but not as cold as where I live now (Boston) or lots of other cities. I believe average annual snowfall is around 14 inches.

Answer 4

Winters can get a bit chilly and rainy in DC. Winter is definitely the gloomy time of the year there. Temps in the mid 40's are not uncommon high temperatures for December, January and February. Low temps for those months can certainly go into the 20's. When I lived there we saw a couple flakes of snow, but there was never really any accumulation.

By March things warm up considerably and the weather is really nice. To sum it up, yes, it does get chilly, but the winter is very short and the spring is long and lovely.

Answer 5

Winters in Baltimore and DC can be inconsistant. It's not out of the question to have 20 degree temperatures one week in January followed by 50 degree temperatures in the following week. We do get snow here, but not as consistantly as what you might find in say New England, or Chicago.

It also seems like the big snow storms that come this way will clip Maryland, but will hit Pennslyvania much harder more often than not. All though Maryland has also been known to get hit up with some pretty big blizzards if the jet streams go the right way.

Answer 6

DC probably averages about 40 degrees for a high and 30 degrees for a low in the winter. The suburbs are cooler. Some years there's very little snow or ice and other years it feels like we're in the arctic. The mid-Atlantic region is prone to moderate snow falls about one to four times per winter and at least two or three episodes of ice or freezing rain. Snow removal has been prompt in the last few years.

Answer 7

Yes it snows here, and temps can get quite cold, but usually only temporarily. Average temperatures will show a fairly mild winter - but it can get very cold for a week or so (although rarely falling below 15 Farenheit). Snow here usually does not last much more than a week - and is usually a minor occurance, but once every couple of years or so we will get a major snowstorm that will close everything down for a few days.

We also frequently will have 60 degree days in January.

Answer 8

In one word wet. Also cold. Doesn't snow like it did when I was little. There are flurries some days though and the occasional snow storm. So much for my opinion. The experts say that D.C. gets an average of 17 inches of snow per winter and that the average temperature is 30.86. The months I used for this average were December, January, and February.

Answer 9

Temperatures: December through February are usually quite cold. Highs are often in the between 35 and 50, and lows are often around freezing. There's usually one bitter cold week where it only gets up to about 25 degrees all week and gets down to the teens at night. But there's usually many random days where we get into the 60s and possibly even hit 70. By the second week of March, temperatures start to rise for good, and spring is here.

Snow: We get snow virtually every winter (generally only in January and February). There's usually around 5 storms per winter, with about 1 to 5 inches per storm. We average a total of around 12 inches per winter. Several years ago, we got nearly two feet of snow during one storm, but that's extraordinarily rare. It only takes about 3 inches to make people crazily stock up on toilet paper and milk. Schools often close early if there is even a inch of snow.

Answer 10

I always thought they were miserable. A lot of folks have answered that temps got into the 20s but I remember plenty of colder days in the teens or single digits.
Snowfall depends on where in the metro area you will be. Closer to Annapolis and the bay, snow isnt as bad. Closer to the mountains, obviously it's worse. Biggest problem of all is that because no one living in DC is actually from DC, at least half of the drivers have never actually see the wet white stuff and drive like its a normal sunny day.

Answer 11

It does get cold and sometimes the "chill factor" is below zero. Our worst weather is in January and February, when we get most of the snow and ice. The city is unbelievably beautiful when covered with a snow blanket. November weather is usually still decent. December, in the 40's and 50's.