FROM TODAY'S PRINT EDITIONS:
January arrives with the new year tonight. It’s the coldest month of the year, averaging 32.2 degrees at BWI-Marshall. The coldest days of the year fall at mid-month, when the average highs bottom out at 41, and the lows at 23 degrees. It’s the snowiest month, too, averaging 7.0 inches. The snowiest January at BWI was in 1996, with 32.6 inches. And the snowiest day on record for Baltimore was Jan. 28, 1922, with 23.3 inches. That three-day storm left 26.5 inches.
(SUN PHOTO: Lloyd Fox, January 2005)