Can March sunshine melt the last snow pile?

All that wishing and hoping last month has finally gotten some traction. The National Weather Service is serving up almost a full week of fine late-winter (or early spring) weather for Central Maryland as stormy weather moves farther out to sea, and high pressure builds in from the northwest.

After the snowiest February on record, and one of the coldest in the last 40 years, we're looking at six straight days of sunshine ahead, with daytime highs in the 40s today and tomorrow, snapping to 50 degrees or more through the weekend and well into next week. The average high for this time of year in Baltimore is 50 degrees. Overnight lows will rise above freezing by next week.

It's going to feel positively spring-like, except for the huge piles of snow and ice that persist on parking lots, along roadsides and in shaded spots all across the region.

We still have a small pile on our front yard, and a big one in the rear, where we threw the snow we shoveled off the WeatherDeck, and where sunshine doesn't penetrate until afternoon.

Kinda makes you wonder whether any of the heaps will survive until April 1. If you'd like to register a candidate snow pile, keep an eye on it this month, and report back to the WeatherBlog when it vanishes, feel free to send me a note.

Please include your name and email address, and the precise location of the heap. A picture would be fine, too. That's the Loveton Business Park in Sparks at right, sent to me by L.J. Kirk.

Let's see if we can identify the last remnant of February's storms (in the city and five surrounding counties) when it finally trickles off into history.

No prizes. Just glory for the last pile standing.

(AP PHOTO/Rob Carr at BWI-Marshall)

Can March sunshine melt the last snow pile?

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