Snow, cherry blossoms and thunderstorms highlight 'Seasons of Washington' 2022 calendar.

It was a great year to photograph the weather in Washington, but I was advised against including cicada photos.

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2021 was a good year for shooting weather photos in the Washington region, and the “Seasons of Washington” 2022 calendar includes snow scenes, cherry blossoms, lightning and a kayaker shooting Great Falls amid fall foliage. The calendar also has a striking cover shot photographed during a severe thunderstorm on June 14.

Initially, I planned to include a cicada photo for May because cicadas were a big news event this past spring. But I decided against the idea because I polled my family and friends, and no one wanted to stare at a cicada photo for an entire month. In addition, some of my friends were quite vocal about not including cicadas in the calendar. So, because I like cicadas, I created a second calendar of only cicada photos.

But the “Seasons of Washington” calendar contains no bug photos, only landscape scenes shot during all four seasons. The January-through-November pages feature photos from 2021, which appeared in Capital Weather Gang articles. For December, I chose a snow photo from my archives because I created the calendar in November.

The calendar also contains the dates of historic storms and important local weather events. All of the calendar pages are displayed at the bottom of this post.'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/11/26/washington-weather-calendar-2022/?