pazzo83

Penn Ave is holding tough too. Although my side street is totally covered.

Man I love Snowshoe. Gotta get back there.

Rosslyn has mostly disappeared from view. Vis is down under a mile i'd say.

man Snowshoe really is a completely different climate.

when Sandy made landfall in AC, I remember the local sites in NYC getting down into the 960s. It was wild.

mod snow now downtown DC

flurries downtown

i think the UHI is actually strongest by you, so that's not surprising.

We'll have to see how the next few winters play out, but I think it's not unreasonable to think the urban core (parts of DC, Arlington, Alexandria) will move into the USDA 8b hardiness zone (annual min temp between 15-20F).

Some news from your south: for the first time in 1077 days, DC (DCA) dropped below 22F. It has literally not dropped below 22F since mid Feb 2019.

lol coldest temp for me since Feb 2019. That is insane.

we are even feeling it downtown:

21 at 11pm. The streak is officially over!!

lol - DCA doin DCA things still

lol see above. it's going on 1000+ days now. It probably ended this hour. We still have a streak ongoing of days reaching at least 30F that stretches back to the beginning of Feb 2019.

yeah we have 5 min ob of now either 21 or 22, and the wind is basically perfect for temps to drop in the urban core (fresh north wind).

The streak will likely end in the next hour. It was quite a run!!!

ideally people would just drive less.

folks from the storm thread, we're talkin' high dewpoints and memes over here. come on in!

there was one summer day in the middle of the 2010s - I don't know if you all remember it, but the mid atlantic and NE had INSANELY high dewpoints. I think Dover, DE was up in the mid 80s. I'm pretty sure both Central Park and DCA cracked 80F. JFK had an hourly ob with a dewpoint of 84F lol. That day was probably my max - I just remember any aerobic activity outside being a real struggle. There was another afternoon when we had just moved to DC and a t-storm was passing just to our north. It was far enough away to keep our air temp in the mid 90s but it pushed the dewpoint up to around 84 (per my local weather station). I was running at the time and that was not easy.

LOL DT has literally had the same map style for like 20 years. You gotta love it.

cold air damming is still pretty fierce down there and storm tracks are typically such that they get big warm layers overhead (hence freezing rain). You move north, the less likely you have such layers. You move south, and that wedge isn't as strong.

yeah the only ambiguity was up more towards NYC. we scored a late coup up there (it became NYC's biggest snowstorm of all time).

right? isn't that insane?

yeah i would love to experience it exactly one time - then i'm good lol.