Washington, D.C. does get snow but the snow does not stay on the ground. This particular day was bitterly cold with wind, but it was also sunny. The average snowfall in Washington, D.C. is around 17 inches. The average snowfall in Provo, Utah, where we live, is about 43 inches. Even with our higher snowfall, nearly all the snow in the valleys melts in between the storms. We lived in Annapolis, Maryland and they get about 12 inches of snow a year but about 45 inches of rain. In Provo, Utah, we only about 18 inches per year. Most of our lives, we lived in Scottsdale and Mesa in Arizona. In Mesa, we got only about 10 inches of rain a year and that usually came in one or two rainstorms over a period of a few days. I have noted that people talk a lot about the weather but they usually live someplace for other reasons. I do know a lot of older people who move to the South in the winter and back to the north in the summer, however.