Some wet pixie dust with veiled sunshine here (Herndon, VA for those on smartphones). You know what they say about when it rains while the sun is shining... a baboon is giving birth. I wonder what is happening if it's snowing with sunshine?
38F/22F temp/dewpt here.
(August 26, 2003) (June 4, 2008) (June 29, 2012) all featured a good MCS for at least a good portion of the region... June 29, 2012 obviously being the best area-wide event (except for the Maryland/Pennsylvania line).
I apologize for this seemingly basic question but:
On the correlation coefficient radar are values closer to 1.000 either all rain or all snow correct (1.000 meaning precip is near 100% the same type)?
IAD: 32.4”
DCA: 22.2”
BWI: 29.8"
RIC: 17.8"
MBY: 31.7"
If it were offered to me I would take 287" of snow next month. I would like it to come in the form of a weekly BECS with hurricane force winds along with very strong ns shortwaves that bring snowrecho after snowrecho between the BECSs with life-giving snowfall rates. The arctic fronts need to feature tornadic supercells that drop EF-5 tornadoes everywhere ahead of them. Pecos Hank and Reed Timmer will come over chasing and stop by my backyard and frontyard for a barbecue. We'll meet up with Jim Cantore to go storm chasing the superthundersnowcells and drive way too close to the tornadoes and have the ultimate adrenline-pumping death match in the bear-cage. Then, well get caught up in the updraft for the ultimate FREE roller coaster ride. When we land (alive because of all of the snow on the ground cushioning the fall) we will go out and have a beer or twenty (though I don't drink) then go dancing outside on top of the glacierized snowdrifts in Category 5 Hurricane Andrea's 20"+/hr snowfall rates with 180+ mph winds. Then after all that I'll finally wake up and realize that I still have to finish my cruel, grueling, life-draining coding projects for school.
Otherwise I'll just take a single HECS (or any snow really (not uber picky)) and call it a winter.
I know this is not our region but... the things that I would do to be able to be under a band like this.
Verbatim there would be life-giving snowfall rates with Thor running and dancing around in absolute glee.
I apologize if this has already been posted but... what are some good radar sites of the US available other than weather.cod.edu? (Regional radars haven't updated since 21:50 UTC.)