Based solely on the general weather pattern that we're in, there's little chance of getting a late-season snowstorm, and history doesn't show much promise either.

If we define a "big" snowstorm as at least ten inches of the white stuff, there have been only three such storms in March in this area in 120 years of records. One of them occurred on this date in 1888, bringing almost a foot of snow to Philadelphia and damaging or grounding dozens of boats in Delaware Bay. The second big March snowstorm was in 1958 - that one brought only 2 inches to Dover but 18 inches to Wilmington and more than three feet in parts of southeastern Pennsylvania.

You may remember the third big March snow - it was the infamous "Storm of the Century" in 1993, which not only brought lots of snow - 14 inches in Wilmington and a foot in Philadelphia - but also high winds followed by bitter cold.