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That’s a lot of snow — a record-setter at BWI

WASHINGTON — If you are looking out the window and thinking, “Wow. That’s a lot of snow.” It was.

[related_gallery align=”right”]It was record-setting for Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, where 29.2 inches fell — the most in any one storm.

Dulles International Airport had its second highest total for a single storm at 29.3 inches.

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport had its fourth biggest snowfall for one storm at 17.8 inches.

At BWI, the records for a one-day storm, a two-day storm and a three-day storm were broken. The one-day BWI record had been 23.3 inches, set Jan. 28, 1922. BWI’s new record is 25.5 inches for Saturday, Jan. 23. 2016. The two-day record, which was broken Saturday with 29.2 inches of snow, had been set Jan. 27, 1922 and Jan. 28, 1922. The same snow total broke the three-day record, set in 2003 with snow that fell from Feb. 16 to Feb. 18. In 2003, 26.8 inches fell.

Here are some of the snow totals from around the region, according to unofficial totals from the National Weather Service, which has trained spotters as well as its own employees reporting snow totals:

D.C. (eastern) — 22.3 inches at 12 a.m. Sunday

Adams Morgan in D.C. — 21 at 11:21 p.m. Saturday

Baltimore-Washington International  — 29.2 inches at 12:30 a.m. (An All-Time record)

Baltimore County/Reisterstown — 32.1 inches at 9:30 p.m. Saturday

Dowell in Calvert County — 19 inches at 10:20 p.m. Saturday

Waldorf in Charles County — 23.5 inches at 9:02 p.m. Saturday

New Market in Frederick County, Maryland  — 35 inches at 8:30 p.m. Saturday

Columbia in Howard County — 28.8 inches at 6:23 a.m. Sunday

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport — 17.8 inches at 9:27 p.m. Saturday

Centreville in Fairfax County — 30.8 inches at 12:30 a.m. Sunday

Ashburn in Loudoun County —  36 inches at 11:28 p.m. Saturday

Bull Run in Prince William County — 32.1 inches at 10:50 p.m. Saturday

Fredericksburg, Virginia — 17 inches at 7:30 p.m. Saturday

Shepardstown in Jefferson County, West Virginia — 40.5 inches at 9:50 p.m. Saturday

See more snow totals from the National Weather Service

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