giscard78 t1_j6g6tq3 wrote on January 30, 2023 at 2:28 AM

> Like, any time there's a chance for snow it turns to rain!

Cold weather usually comes from the west and precipitation usually from the south. Conditions need to be just right for snow here.

DC is also near the edge of the coastal plain. Back in MCPS, they’d give us snow days because it was snowy in Poolesville but raining in the east county.

OGkateebee t1_j6gnk5i wrote on January 30, 2023 at 4:30 AM

Any Baltimore suburb peeps know this phenomenon as the Hereford Zone. Baltimore County has a special zone cut out for the far-north part of the county that touches PA so that the kids around the beltway wouldn’t be so lucky. Even growing up in Howard County we hated those Hereford Zone kids who always got off LOL

AllerdingsUR t1_j6hevtm wrote on January 30, 2023 at 9:59 AM

Similar thing used to happen on the VA side! The Fairfax county kids would resent the eastern Loudoun students for getting off with no snow because Loudoun is huge and the western end is closer to Harper's Ferry than it is to DC.

SketchlessNova t1_j6iqlnb wrote on January 30, 2023 at 4:58 PM

Northern Loudoun literally touches Harper's Ferry. But yeah, Loudoun and Fauquier were always quick to close because of the more rural areas making bus travel impossible.