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Weather Will

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  1. Here you go....-both maps were accurate for me. Took me hours to drive between College Park and Greenbelt. Cars abandoned everywhere. It snowed 3-4 inches an hour with drifts over 2 feet. And it was not forecasted. Mom was freaking out since there were no cell phones back then... National Weather Service @NWS #OTD in 1987, a snowstorm hit the Washington, D.C. area, with up to 17" of snow and stranding cars for nearly 24 hours. The event led to the development of the Washington Metropolitan Area Snow Plan to facilitate preparedness and response. https://weather.gov/lwx/winter_DC-Winters #NWS150 November 11, 1987: The Veteran's Day Storm will not be forgotten by many Washington travelers. Almost a foot (11.5 inches) fell at National Airport. Prince Georges County, MD was hard hit with up to 13 inches of snow falling in a short amount of time. It caught motorists off guard and stranded cars on the Capitol Beltway. There were so many cars that snow plows could not get through to open the clogged arteries. Cars littered the roadway for more than 24 hours. The event precipitated the development of the Washington Metropolitan Area Snow Plan to facilitate preparedness and response to future storms. This storm struck before the days of lightning detection networks and Doppler weather radar. When thunderstorms began dumping heavy snow over the Fredericksburg VA, forecasters had no idea. The storm moved northeast across the southern Metropolitan area (Prince Georges County). It was not until the fast accumulating snow hit Camp Springs, where at the time the Weather Forecast Office was located, did forecasters realize what was happening.
  2. I have fond memories of Veterans Day 1987. I start my tracking around this time. Rare, but it can snow. I was at Univ. of MD in the bullseye.
  3. Latest EURO weeklies for November 10. Digital snow is showing up in some runs around this period.
  4. WB 12Z GEFS, EPS, and AI ensemble, next light/moderate rain chance late weekend; early next week.
  5. Good BAM video. Looks like we need November and December to rock...what could possibly go wrong?!
  6. NWS should decommission the NAMs early. They are an embarrassment.
  7. Note to Self: ICON and EURO combo is something to bank on for coastal tracks.
  8. WB 18Z ICON, which did well with last coastal, is still a whiff.
  9. Big shift west on WB 12K NAM....will post the maps when the run completes.
  10. WB 0Z RDPS. Another in the strung out wonky camp. Maybe EURO will be right after all....
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