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Capital Weather Gang's Ann Posegate was out and about yesterday, and shot this video of local residents in the recording-breaking snow.

So how did this storm stack up in the weather record books? The National Weather Service Office in Sterling, published the following information last night:

MULTIPLE SNOWFALL RECORDS WERE BROKEN FROM THIS SNOWSTORM AT DCA ... BWI ... IAD. DAILY SNOWFALL RECORDS FOR DEC 19 WERE SMASHED AT ALL THREE AIRPORTS. THESE DAILY SNOWFALL REPORTS ON DEC 19 ALSO BROKE RECORDS FOR THE MOST SNOWFALL FOR ANY CALENDAR DAY DURING THE MONTH OF DEC.

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DAILY DECEMBER SNOWFALL (IN INCHES)

NEW RECORD OLD RECORD
DCA 15.0 11.5 (1932)
BWI 20.5 11.5 (1932)
IAD 16.0 10.6 (1982)

ADDITIONAL CLIMATE TIDBITS FROM THE PAST STORM...

DCA...
THE 15.0 INCHES OF SNOW MEASURED YESTERDAY WAS THE THIRD HIGHEST DAILY SNOWFALL ON ANY CALENDAR DAY AT WASHINGTON DC SINCE SNOWFALL RECORDS BEGAN IN 1884.

THE STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL OF 16.4 INCHES OF SNOWFALL ON DEC 18-19 2009 MARKS THE 6TH HIGHEST TWO-DAY SNOWFALL RECORD FOR WASHINGTON DC ... PUTTING IT JUST BELOW THE PRESIDENT/S DAY STORM IN 2003 AND AHEAD OF THE JAN 1996 STORM. (Note from CWG: The 1996 storm totaled 17.1" over three days, so this storm is #7 on the all-time list for Washington snowstorms when storm totals are considered rather than two-day totals)

FOR THE MONTH SO FAR ... A TOTAL OF 16.6 INCHES OF SNOW HAS BEEN RECORDED AT DCA. THIS MAKES IT THE SNOWIEST DECEMBER ON RECORD FOR WASHINGTON DC (PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 16.2 IN 1962).

BWI...
THE 20.5 INCHES OF SNOW MEASURED YESTERDAY WILL GO DOWN AS THE FIFTH HIGHEST DAILY SNOWFALL ON ANY CALENDAR DAY AT BALTIMORE SINCE SNOWFALL RECORDS BEGAN IN 1893.

THE STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL OF 21.0 INCHES OF SNOWFALL ON DEC 18-19 2009 MARKS THE 6TH HIGHEST TWO-DAY SNOWFALL RECORD FOR BALTIMORE.

FOR THE MONTH SO FAR...A TOTAL OF 22.2 INCHES OF SNOW HAS BEEN RECORDED AT BWI. THIS MAKES IT THE SNOWIEST DECEMBER ON RECORD FOR BALTIMORE (PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 20.4 INCHES IN 1966).