Jump to content

AU74

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    146

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by AU74

    Historic January 30, 1966 storm

    in Mid Atlantic

    Posted

    Those accumulated snow maps don't come close to what fell in my neighborhood in the White Oak area of Silver Spring. We had drifts of at least 8 feet, blocking a neighbor's front door all the way up to their front porch roof and lots of 3-4 foot drifts. Not sure how 10-15 inches would have made that possible, even given the prior snowfall.

    Late January and February Medium/Long Range Discussion

    in Mid Atlantic

    Posted

    14 minutes ago, WinterWxLuvr said:

    People are stupid. There’s probably never been a weather event here that would keep you stranded for more than a couple of days. People shop like their the Donner party. And the biggest threat from this is a power outage. Good idea to stock up the fridge and then have to figure how to keep it from going bad.

    In 2010, we had 2' of snow on our street and not a single vehicle drove though it until it was plowed less than 24 hours before the second storm hit.

    • Like 1

    January 28-29, 2022 Miller abcdefu Storm Threat

    in Mid Atlantic

    Posted

    20 minutes ago, Maestrobjwa said:

    Hey I understand the HECS hunting...it has been quite a while (6 years, actually) I'd be outright lying if I said I wasn't somewhat hoping for a miracle one out of this. But also trying to live in reality, lol

    Six whole years? 

    In my neighborhoods in the White Oak and Colesville part of Silver Spring, we went from a blizzard in '66 (with drifts of at least 7 feet and endless fun for my 7-year-old self) until '79 between what I'd call HECS. Six years is nothing.

     

    Edited to add: Not sure about the gap after the '83 storm, but it may have been another 13 years to '96.

     

    ETA: Unless you count 8" or so then 4" of sleet to pack it down in '93.

     

    MLK 2022 Storm Potential

    in Mid Atlantic

    Posted

    1 hour ago, IronTy said:

    Hmmm, impressed you remembered that.  Yeah I also just retired at 41yo. My first day of retirement was out big snowstorm last Monday.  Don't cry too many tears for me.  

     

    Private equity big boss for the win.  

    Went with weenie because I couldn't find the gag button.

    • Haha 3

    January Medium/Long Range Discussion

    in Mid Atlantic

    Posted

    1 hour ago, benjammin said:

    Those tiny maps in the Washington Post and Star. Of course dialing 936-1212 but the biggest thing was when Bob Ryan said it was going to snow a lot because he was usually conservative and right. In January 96 when he forecasted 1-2 feet before a flake had fallen I knew we were going to get nailed.

    Sent from my motorola edge plus using Tapatalk


     

    I always felt that Ryan would cover all bases more than being conservative.

    The original great DC weatherman was Louis Allen, imo.

    • Like 1

    Jan 6/7 "Event" and obs

    in Mid Atlantic

    Posted

    20 minutes ago, Kmlwx said:

    Looks like a 4" total here in Colesville, MD. Perhaps some compaction. Very happy with the result given some of the modeling of that screw zone. Nice fluffy - easy to shovel snow. Pretty!

     

    Looks about the same on my deck on the north side of Colesville, near New Hampshire Ave and the ICC.

    • Like 1
×
×
  • Create New...