WASHINGTON, D.C. — There was definitely a lot of snow in Washington, but just how much may never really be known.
According to The Washington Post, the number that will go down in the history books as Washington’s official total: 17.8 inches, falls short compared with some other spots in the region. Why the disparity?
The improvised technique used by a small team of weather observers at Reagan National Airport lost their snow-measuring device to the elements midway through the blizzard.
The mix-up may have kept the blizzard of 2016 from breaking into the region’s top three snowstorms on record, based on accumulations, prompting the National Weather Service to announce that it will be looking into the procedures used at Reagan National.
On Sunday, senior weather observer at National, Mark Richards, stood by the accuracy of the reading, saying his team did the best it could under tough conditions.
—The Associated Press
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