North Balti Zen

Sounds like a CFS CFS blend gets us three months of winter. Off to pitch my analysis to Bastardi...

Your climate, friend, is much more favorable for finding some snow in a Nina than ours is in the majority of our part of the mid-Atlantic. You should definitely have some hope. Down here, people are being more or less pretty realistic about what this set-up likely means.

Empty nest now with one child graduated from college and second child now in his first weeks of college. Also, just came into an extra week vacation per year at work. So...I am planning to chase snow this year at least once. Gonna toss the pup in the car and just go.

You mean November II. We now have November, November II, November III, November IV, November V and November VI around here and then May 181 days of November, if you will...

BWI: .7 - '49/'50 1.2 - '72/'73 1.8 - 2011/12 1.8 - 2019/20 2.3 - 2001/02 DCA .1 - '97/'98 .1 - '72/'73 .6 - 2019/20 2.0 - 2011/12 2.2 - '75/'76 Dulles: 2.2 - '72/'73 2.6 - 2001/02 2.9 - 2019/20 3.7 - 2011/12 4.4 - '80/'81 The third worst or tied for third worst at all airports last winter in terms of seasonal snowfall. Two of the five worst snowfall total winters the region has experienced has been in the last 10 years.

Every time the seasonal snow discussion thread melts down I tidy up in here.

Bump. apparently need to get the place ready early this year... reminder, 3rd worst ever at DCA and IAD last year and tied for third worst at BWI.

Getting slaughtered here in Roland park/Hampden area.

Something popped up over downtown Baltimore and it absolutely poured here for about 20 minutes. Checked with home and five miles up 83...nothing.

We had some hail for a quick moment as it started here at my house.

I don’t believe it snowed after I bumped this thread on January 21. What an absolute disaster of a winter. We have new entrants on the list.

I, um, all things being equal, given how much food is in various freezers and the quarantine situation many are dealing with, really don’t want severe storms to be a thing this spring. Need power. Etc.

I lived in East Nashville for the 1998 tornado. Sometime if you all want I can recount living through that one. My office bldg. downtown was massively damaged and my home also had significant damage. But check out this overlay in this tweet of the Nashville tornados from 1933, 1998 and the one last night. That's...absolutely uncanny: https://twitter.com/WCM_Krissy/status/1234822047571881984

Coming into view now - 3rd worst or tied for 3rd worst at each airport as it currently stands.

I may do that. As of 2/21/20: BWI: 1.8" DCA: 0.6" IAD: 2.9"

Right now tie for 3rd, and two new third place worst totals on the table.

Here's where we are currently on 2/05/20: BWI: 1.8"/DCA: 0.6"/IAD: 2.9" These are the seasonal futility numbers to keep in mind as this horror show continues: BWI: .7 - '49/'50 1.2 - '72/'73 1.8 - 2011/12 2.3 - 2001/02 3.0 - 2016/2017 DCA .1 - '97/'98 .1 - '72/'73 2.0 - 2011/12 2.2 - '75/'76 2.5 - '30/'31 Dulles: 2.2 - '72/'73 2.6 - 2001/02 3.7 - 2011/12 4.4 - '80/'81 5.9 - '97/'98

If we can get on the board for a top 5 futility record at one of the airports - glasses of warm water in honor of what fell this winter.

Putting out some extra chairs.

Tidying up, doing some dusting. Getting ready, just in case.

Agreed - the 2-4 inch deals have been harder and harder to come by in the ten years I have been in the area - but looking at the longer record , that seems to comport with your memory from the 80s and 90s for this part of the area. Dovetails with @psuhoffman obs/thoughts in another thread wondering if the global climate trends are taking those events away from parts of the area.

That means two of the top five worst snowfall seasons for BWI location have happened in the last decade. It has truly been huge boom or massive bust for BWI/Baltimore City area since I got here in 2009 - probably why I am constantly hunting big storms - the ones on the margins don't do much for this area of late...

I will go with you - that winter had some screwy measurements for having so little have fallen. If that is accurate, the correct top five worst snowfall years for the reporting locations are as follows: Here's where we are currently on 1/22/20: BWI: 1.8"/DCA: 0.6"/IAD: 2.9" These are the seasonal futility numbers to keep in mind as this horror show continues: BWI: .7 - '49/'50 1.2 - '72/'73 1.8 - 2011/12 2.3 - 2001/02 3.0 - 2016/2017 DCA .1 - '97/'98 .1 - '72/'73 2.0 - 2011/12 2.2 - '75/'76 2.5 - '30/'31 Dulles: 2.2 - '72/'73 2.6 - 2001/02 3.7 - 2011/12 4.4 - '80/'81 5.9 - '97/'98

Did that number get adjusted after 3/14/17? There was back and forth at the time about how much fell that day.

2016/17 was BAD (but not quite historic with the March 14, 2017 snow ruining the run at placing each airport on the list except for a 5th place for BWI) - that year ended up BWI 3.0"/DCA 3.4"/IAD 7.3" . Prior to that mid-March "save" in 2017 BWI had 1", DCA had 1.7" and Dulles also had 1.7".