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    When is the first snow in Maryland?

    In Maryland, Baltimore’s first measurable snow usually lands around December 11.

    Maryland’s first snow takes its sweet time and turns up in mid-December like it got lost on the Beltway.
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    That makes Maryland number 33 of the 36 states we track, earliest first.

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    Snow in the next 5 days?

    • No. There’s no snow in the Baltimore forecast for the next 5 days.

    Live 5-day forecast and current temperature from OpenWeatherMap, refreshed about every half hour. Winter warnings from the National Weather Service.

    First snow, city by city

    CityUsually around8 winters in 10Snow a winter
    BaltimoreDecember 11November 22 to January 17about 19 in

    Usually around is the middle date across 30 winters. In 8 winters out of 10, the first snow lands inside the range.

    States on the same snow schedule

    • New Jersey: from around December 9 in Newark
    • Oklahoma: from around December 16 in Oklahoma City
    • Kentucky: from around December 5 in Louisville

    Every state’s first snow, earliest first

    Source: NOAA daily snowfall records for each city’s official station, winters 1991 to 2020, via the Applied Climate Information System. First snow here means the first day with at least a tenth of an inch.