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Im dc we just need it to.cool down and we can get a few inches. Radar looks great

Based on radar extrapolation dc may have a chance if it would just be cold enough for snow. Its always something

How is saturday looking?

This is it. The rest of these events wont  work out for DC proper. Kinda looks like the January 19 event. Our Miller A blockbuster event is probably a march hail mary type thing

Anyone remember the late January 2003 snowstorm? Quick 4-8 areawide but it was realoy heavy

It could snow like this for a couple hours

That derecho is beginning to make me wonder...

Something tells me the government wouldn't be fully honest if people around the globe were dropping flies. And they control the news and the financial system.

Was that it?

ANOTHER 40 plus inches for CPK. What a special place to be, wonder why. Especially out towards Long Island. Highly anomalous but CPK averages around 50 inches anyway which is what they tell me.

7 hours ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Yup there's nothing better than going to bed expecting nothing and then you get awoken by that early brightening of the skies and looking out to see everything covered with a surprise 5" of snow.  Then you go downstairs, flip on the NOAA Weather Radio and hear those three amazing words "Winter Storm Warning".  You get excited as the message reads out on the automated voice with words like "through late tonight" and "drifts exceeding two feet".  Those are amazing events.

when did that happen?

Heavy light snow in Capitol Hill, one of the best places in the metro for a Jebwalk 

Despite being in this cess pool of the DC coastal plai (Foggy Bottom) changeover appears to be commencing. Slowly but surely. The rain looks white with fattish things mixed in occasionally. 

I'm hoping to wake up to an all day deathband   a la 12/19/09. It just loitered there and rotated all day. That's how we get the NAM totals.

KCOU and KSTL will approach records, according to their NWS office. Both should get well over a foot. KCOU already above 1'

December 2009 was nice. Cold, wall to wall snow. No frills, no anxiously monitoring the ra/ip/sn line or the pivot. Perfect time of year. I'll always recall January '00 fondly because of the surprise factor and because my location, Upper Marlboro did extremely well, easily 15-17 inches.

Feb 5,6 is the one I voted for tho. Didn't get the truly epic totals they had to west and in central Maryland, but the 8p to 12a period was amazing. But I was watching the dry slot after that and became upset when it seemed like it was going to get to DC. So I went to bed and woke up to about 24" in NE DC.

EDIT: DOB: 1985

To be below 40 BWI sure does have one mighty impressive Top 10 list. #10 is an 18 incher?? Take that Midwest and Great Plains. Plus a couple events were under measured at BWI namely Feb 5,6... Jan '96...

Love this storm. Early season, Christmastime, harbinger, pure snow none of this mixing nonsense we typically deal with or almost deal with in big storms (tho that could be said for practically the entire season's storms), fast start and a really exceptional pivot Saturday afternoon. I was in Upper Marlboro and the snow came down thru 9pm Sat. 18-21" or so altogether. I'd rank '09 second on my biggies list of the ones I've seen (all since '96; I was born in '85). Of the two standard-bearers that winter, I have to give the slimmest of edges to Feb. 5-6 for several reasons: heaviest snow I've ever seen falling from 8pm to 2am; the incredible totals, 30"+, many quite close to and even in the cities; the gravity wave; the immediate tracking of another storm within a few days of this one, eliminating post-HECS idleness and depression; among others. I did experience a few nervous hours overnight from about 2am-5am as the snow tapered where I was in NE D.C., obsessing over radar as the dry slot approached looking like it meant serious business, then relief when back building and the pivot took. Still, appreciable damage had definitely been done: I would measure 21-24.5", basically in line with reports from across the city, DCA's tarmac and low lying, reclaimed swampland neighborhoods immediately adjacent to rivers notwithstanding. Locales not far away, NE and NNE including Beltsville, Laurel, Crofton and on up through Columbia and Elkridge, narrowly missed the tapering that went on closer to the slot and found themselves forming a noticeable little jackpot area nearby, that I missed. But that's pretty much it as far as complaints go.

Another reason I place Feb. 5-6 above all other comers, apart from the synoptic stuff, is because I really, really savored seeing New York --and specifically New York-- having, finally, failed while we did especially well. The last time was Jan. 2000. It hardly made up for our numerous Miller B fails while they've come out time and again like feasting fat rats for a decade plus. And we soon paid a terrible price with a revolutionary and innovative, overall spectacular debacle at Boxing Day later on the same year. Even still, brief as it was, the reversal of fortune was refreshing, rewarding and frequently hilarious, and in the end CPK recorded like 50" on the season anyway so it wasn't anything close to a shutout.

Hey-- Who here remembers mid-Atlantic trolls making posts about "rain in downtown DC" in the NYC forum the evening of the 5th?? Lol!!!