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This forced the city of 11,000-plus to spend 0,000 on contractors for the back-to-back blizzards in February.<br />Luckily, both the annual Farmers’ Almanac and the NOAA Climate Prediction Center are predicting warmer temperatures this winter for the mid-Atlantic and Southeast. According to an Associated Press story published Monday, Farmers’ Almanac officials claim their predictions are 85 percent accurate. <br />They also claim they correctly prognosticated a tough winter last year when more than 50 inches fell in Prince William County in three huge snowstorms.<br />The average annual snowfall for Washington, D.C. is 16 inches.<br />Gammell said they don’t budget for these types of snowstorms and won’t again this year. Gammell said salt and sand is not broken out from the city’s materials budget; however, the city allocates money each year to pay for its workers’ overtime due to snow removal.<br />“It’s just not cost effective to have that kind of equipment all of the time,” Gammell said.<br />Prince William County budgets ,000 each year for their snow removal out of their Buildings and Grounds division of the Public Works department, stated Public Works spokeswoman Deb Oliver. Last year, the county spent 5,000.<br />Oliver said money that was saved by the shedding of lease agreements for some of its departments helped pay for the overage. No money came from the county’s contingency funds to pay for snow removal, said Oliver.<br />The Potomac-Rappahannock Transportation Commission spent ,000 in snow removal at its 61 bus depots across the county. That’s ,000 more than budgeted. <br />This year, they budgeted ,700.<br />PRTC spokeswoman Christine Rodrigo said overages like the one that occurred last year can be easily made up for out of the organization’s operations budget of million.<br />“Last year was an aberration,” Rodrigo said. “We go with what we have done in the past. In past years, we have been far under what we had budgeted.”<br />The Virginia Department of Transportation maintains county and city roads as well as the PRTC parking lots. Last year, VDOT allocated approximately .7 billion for road maintenance in its 2011 fiscal budget, roughly 46 million more than 2010. <br />VDOT spokeswoman Joan Morris said the organization will likely inform the public regarding their winter preparation plans and how much money will be spent on snow removal closer November.<br />“Because of the extraordinary winter last year, there will be a lot of interest in the budget this year and the plan we will have if we have a winter that is similar,” Morris said.<br />Staff writer Kipp Hanley can be reached at 703-530-3904.</p> <p> </p></p> <div style="font-size:0px;height:0px;line-height:0px;margin:0;padding:0;clear:both"></div><h4>Incoming search terms for the article:</h4><ul><li style="list_type:none;display:inline;"><a href="http://www.thiscloud.net/farmers-almanac-winter-will-be-less-severe-inside-nova/" title="farmers almanac">farmers almanac</a></li>, </ul><!-- SEO SearchTerms Tagging 2 Plugin --><h2 class="related_post_title">Read Also</h2><ul class="related_post"><li><a href="http://www.thiscloud.net/winter-home-decor-ideas/" title="Winter Home Decor Ideas">Winter Home Decor Ideas</a></li><li><a href="http://www.thiscloud.net/home-decoration-fashion-trends-in-this-autumn-and-winter/" title="Home Decoration Fashion Trends in This Autumn and Winter">Home Decoration Fashion Trends in This Autumn and Winter</a></li><li><a href="http://www.thiscloud.net/home-design-ideas-%e2%80%93-home-decoration-before-and-after-holidays/" title="Home Design Ideas – Home Decoration Before and After Holidays">Home Design Ideas – Home Decoration Before and After Holidays</a></li><li><a href="http://www.thiscloud.net/jason-ritter-talks-nbcs-the-event-screencrave-com/" title="Jason Ritter Talks NBC’s The Event – ScreenCrave.com">Jason Ritter Talks NBC’s The Event – ScreenCrave.com</a></li><li><a href="http://www.thiscloud.net/tyler-colvin-in-stable-condition-after-being-impaled-by-bat/" title="Tyler Colvin in stable condition after being impaled by bat">Tyler Colvin in stable condition after being impaled by bat</a></li></ul> <h2>Related Topics</h2> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-7541673942618447"; 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