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RodneyS

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  1. The 2023-24 astronomical and composite winters were each warmer than last season at DCA. The former displaced last season as the third warmest in DC history, averaging 45.2 degrees; while the latter displaced 2019-20 as the second warmest in DC history, averaging 45.1 degrees.
  2. You need at least 0.2 inches at IAD to pass RickinBaltimore, and 1.3 inches there would pull you within 0.3 of Kmlwx. If the latter happens, an inch at RIC could do it for you. I think 1.3 at IAD is much more likely than 1.0 at RIC, but you never know.
  3. I hope to have that dilemma next March.
  4. Nice shot - especially in foreseeing the large gap between RIC and the other three airports. Day-by-day, the clock is ticking in your favor.
  5. While precipitation slowed at DCA in February, the warmth continued, with an average temperature of 44.4 degrees -- 7th warmest February in DC history. That brought the meteorological winter average to 43.2 degrees -- also 7th warmest in DC history. So, the 2023-24 DCA meteorological winter is easy to summarize -- warm and wet.
  6. DCA _ NYC _ BOS __ ORD _ ATL _ IAH __ DEN _ PHX _ SEA 1.6 2.5 2.5 1.3 0.4 1.3 -0.5 -1.5 -2.1
  7. Precipitation at DCA slowed way down in February, coming in at only 1.41 inches, which made it the 22nd driest of 154 Februaries in DC history. However, the meteorological winter total at DCA was 13.72 inches, making it the 12th wettest in DC history.
  8. Excellent. I'm delighted that you are extending my analysis to include additional areas.
  9. The Tuesday, January 25, 2000 snowstorm was a big surprise . . . until a new model run around 9:30 PM Monday evening. I remember Channel 5 (DC) meteorologist Sue Palka leading the 10 PM News that evening with the major update to the forecast. However, the Office of Personnel Management was not sure whether to believe the update, and so initially ordered the Federal Government to open. Wisely, they reversed themselves around 7 AM on Tuesday and shut it down. DCA received 9.3 inches that day and IAD received 10.3 inches.
  10. I agree with you about AccuWeather, but I wasn't aware of its forecast until after the storm, when it began to receive favorable publlcity about its call.
  11. No, but there was a significant warmup over several days with lots of rain, and the snow at DCA was gone in about a week. Here are the DCA minimum and maximum temperature readings, precipitation (and snow for the two days of the storm), and ground snow measurements, beginning with the day the storm started: 2-18-79: 6 and 15; 0.21 (4.7 snow); 6 2-19-79: 12 and 36; 1.16 (14.0 snow); 18 2-20-79: 10 and 40; 0; 22 2-21-79: 27 and 43; 0.07; 17 2-22-79: 33 and 56; 0; 12 2-23-79: 35 and 44; 0.20; 7 2-24-79: 38 and 45; 1.67; 4 2-25-79: 39 and 45; 1.12; 1 2-26-79: 38 and 41; 0.09; 0
  12. You don't even need that if you get the 0.1 inch you need to nail BWI and the 1.3 inches you need to nail DCA.
  13. This article notes that Delaware received nearly 25 inches. https://vlab.noaa.gov/web/nws-heritage/-/unpredictable-the-president-s-day-storm-of-1979#:~:text=By Monday%2C February 19%2C snow,blocked%2C impassable even to snowplows. What was memorable about that Sunday prior to the storm was the extreme cold -- the temperature ranges were 6 to 15 at DCA and -14 to 8 at IAD.
  14. For those of us of a certain age, the answer to the question of "your most memorable snowstorm" is a no-brainer. Nothing comes close to this one because it was so unexpected, as detailed here: How the surprise President’s Day snowstorm of 1979 advanced forecasting - The Washington Post. When I went to bed on the evening of Sunday, February 18, 1979 (February had the same calendar that year as in 2024), I expected to wake up to a coating of 2-3 inches. Instead, when I woke up on Presidents' Day, I literally could not see my car! What was equally extraordinary is that people in the Reston neighborhood where I lived came out en masse that morning to take it all in, and everyone was in an upbeat mood. No one could quite believe that we had received that much snow (officially 18.7 inches at Reagan National Airport -- the most in DC since the January 27-29, 1922 Knickerbocker Storm), when little had been forecast. Since then, there have been larger storms in the Maryland and Virginia suburbs, but none compare to this one for emotional impact.
  15. This Presidents Day weekend storm did not quite live up to billing, but did produce 2.2 inches at BWI, 0.1 at DCA, and 1.1 at IAD. That enabled RickinBaltimore to move into second place behind Kmlwx. A very competitive leaderboard, but will the Mid-Atlantic receive any more snow this season?
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