As I've been putting together this year's Almanac issue, I've had some time to reflect on the year that was 2010 in weather here in Washington, D.C. It was a year of extremes. Snowmagge-don, which buried the mid-Atlantic states under record-breaking snowfalls, dominated headlines in the early part of last year. But here in D.C, what had been a spectacularly snowy winter morphed into a wonderfully warm-hot, even!-spring in which residents and tourists alike marveled at the 90-degree temperatures in April. The early warm-up turned out to be portentous: D.C. experienced one of the warmer summers we've had in years, and the good weather lasted until nearly December, making us forget, at least a little, the harsh realities of winter.
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