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Winter's Forgotten Corridor

If you love snow, this winter has been a big disappointment in parts of the mid-Atlantic states.

Baltimore's paltry 0.7 inches of snow through Feb. 5, just over 11 inches below average for the season, has been the third-least snowy start to the season on record, dating to 1949-1950, according to NOAA's ACIS database.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's, 1.9 inches for the season is almost 15 inches below the average to-date.

Even for some Northeast locations that have seen some snow this winter, it's been a while since there has been snow that has required a plow or shovel.

Philadelphia's last one inch or more snowfall was about a month ago, Jan. 5-7, during . New York's Central Park hasn't seen any snow cover since Jan. 15. Even notoriously snowy Boston has only seen 1.4 inches of snow since Jan. 8.

has featured a southward plunge of the jet stream in the West, with a northward bend of the jet in the East. This has meant the more frequent, heavy snowstorms have been confined from the West to the northern Plains and upper Midwest, while the East has been quite mild.

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–quite a shift from last winter.

in late January 2016 was the heaviest snowstorm of record in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Baltimore/Washington International Airport and New York's Central Park, among other locations.

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Florida: 4 inches

Milton, Florida, located just to the northeast of Pensacola, recorded 4 inches of snow on March 6, 1954. Image: Snow at the Alabama/Florida border on Feb. 12, 2010 from iWitness Weather contributor ismsan.