It was bound to happen...

We've been getting updates on the recent snowstorms from Snowpocalypse (a group on Facebook that somebody started during the 19 December snowstorm of the same name). The guy running that group gets a lot of his information from the Capital Weather Gang. One item that particularly caught my eye included this graph:

Update: the 9-10 February blizzard helped to break the 1898-99 record of 54.4 inches

I thought it seemed pretty telling. Pretty clear, in fact, that every 7 years the DC Metro area gets slammed with a lot of snow. So, maybe we'll all be better prepared for the great whiteout of '16-'17... It might look something like this: