Why does everyone keep saying this. We had a great run from 2009-2016. BWI averages 21 inches a year. With all those good years, you have to have some bad ones. The lack of snowfall is not just in our area, but the entire east coast. You know the old saying. If it is snowing on one coast, it is not snowing on the other. The west coast has been getting most the of the snowfall the last couple of years.