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President's Day 1 Blizzard in February 1979 here in southern MD is the gold standard for winter storms......bar none. Extreme rates, surprise factor, massive drifting, low temperatures. That storm had it all.

It would appear that Tomer is on board.

It's handled tons before for decades just fine.

It's funny, but we moved to SEPA in '86 (from Erie!). I remember the '93 storm with all of the ice, and the '94 storm when I was at PSU. Then I left in '95 to join the Navy. I didn't move back to ChesCo until '09, and I moved to Berks in '20. So I'll have to take your word for it.

Thank you both so very much. If you have your mothers/fathers, spend time with them and appreciate them.

Fog is pretty crazy in some spots tonight. I can barely see 1/10 mile at times.

I remember that on Eastern weather

Are you tracking the blizzard yet or still focused on 70 degree days in March?

Glad you like it. Here's another shot for you. Search on "Incredible deep snow in Japan"

CIPS is beginning to like this more. Top 12z, bottom 00z.

It’s on

No idea. I guess we'll find out.

That's the one my parents experienced like 2 weeks after moving here from South Africa in '79. No shovel. Dug out with a baking sheet and wondered wtf they'd gotten themselves into...

That's what they said March 2001. I think it's going to be too warm.

Every ten years!

Almost exactly the same, which is what you would expect at this point.

Sorry for your loss. I’m sure she is watching from above and saying the same thing. Keep doing it in her honor.

Thank you so much. I'm reminiscing right now about all the conversations we had before/when these storms would hit haha. And when I'd go outside starting in 1996. "Don't go out exploring!". She'd be fine doing things like making donuts on our intersection way after the storm was over haha.

i hope that you guys are aware that you are watching a borderline BDB level resurgence

It struck on a Sunday night. I was supposed to report for my first day of work at DTNSRDC in Carderock, Md (Potomac River near Bethesda) Monday morning but of course that never happened. In fact, it wasn't until the next Monday that work opened. Expecting a tolerable 4" of overnight snow I woke up to what I thought was fog outside. With the onset of daylight I about fainted when I realized that "fog" was torrential snow. Cars were completely buried and drift were to the top of storefronts. Tractors were used to clear Georgia Avenue (Georgian Towers in Silver Spring.) https://vlab.noaa.gov/web/nws-heritage/-/unpredictable-the-president-s-day-storm-of-1979

sorry man, that's awful

If this comes to fruition the GFS is a champ, and all other guidance are chumps. It figured out the complex interplay of the individual pieces of vorticity and once it locked on it never waivered.