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A category 5 hurricane up the Potomac and dead over my house?! Paging @Bob Chill. Oh yeah!! Uh huh!! Oh yeah!! Uh huh!! Oh yeah!!

The BEST time ... It should be back shortly. ETA: Around 12:00pm cst according to them via twitter.

Let me see... I'd be very happy with a quick hitting 20" storm with extreme snowfall rates with lightning/thunder. I'd also be very happy to have 10 snow squalls that quickly drop 2" each within a half-hour with lightning/thunder and strong gusty winds. Even better would be a Quebec polar vortex/ strongly +PNA pattern bringing 4 particularly intense snow squalls that each drop 5" in a very short amount of time... with lightning/thunder and severe wind gusts.

Over 3"/hr liquid equivalent rates meaning snowfall rates of as much as 30"+/hr?! Me thinks this will have RDMs glacier experience beat bigly! I'm so far in that I'm actually now trapped inside and don't even know whether I can get back out. It's strange and dark in here with faint clouds of what look like memories or hypothetical fantasies of Armaggeddon-like storms crushing my neighborhood? Should I call 911? Will they even be able to reach me here? I've heard of a strange phenomenon that can sometimes occur when snowfall rates get very heavy. People say that the sky will flash (kind of like a camera flash) with either the color white, pink or sometimes even blue. They will then hear a crashing noise usually a couple seconds later... but in some cases within that second and loud. I hear of this happening quite a bit with lake-effect snow squalls from the Great Lakes. I've never experienced this phenomenon in person but it certainly sounds cool and unique. What exactly do you call this phenomenon and do we at least have the slightest chance ( at least a 1 in 100 chance) of seeing this phenomenon occur somewhere within this region if we can get strong enough lift tomorrow?

Funny... I had a similar conversation with my friend last night about Tuesday.

How in the flippity flop-a-dippery dop did you miss out on PDII and all the other warning-level snows that happened that winter?! Did you get fringed to the underworld or something?

Happy New Decade WxWeenies.

2020ing.

@psuhoffman I don't have anything to add but thank you so much for the time and effort put into this!

How much accumulated in Charlottesville?

11/12: T (Flakes from time to time) 12/4: T (I woke up to wet ground. But with yellow/orange returns over me on radar overnight there were probably some wet snow flakes.) Snow total as of December 4, 2019: T

Last place!

BWI: 50.7" DCA: 36.9" IAD: 52.7" RIC: 29.9" SBY: 32.1"

Congratulations!

Anyway, congratulations @yoda.

IAD actually hit 33F.

Update: IAD: 10/25 DCA: 11/03 BWI: 10/25 RIC: 11/03 Oct Precip: 24.76"

IAD: 1/20 DCA: 1/20 BWI: 1/20 RIC: 1/20 Oct Precip: 99.76"

I'm guessing you don't have much light pollution where you are to be able to notice that detail? ETA: 27/15 IAD.

Thread created August 23, 2011 at 1:51pm edt. Earthquake occured August 23, 2011 at 1:51pm edt. I'm just picturing Kenny weenieing bigly ninjaly whipping up the earthquake thread while mass chaos ensues all around him.