mattie g

12 hours ago, Bob Chill said:

Nice stats Rodney! The precip in July is probably the only reason we didn't end up in the top 10 for heat. August is looking unimpressive so far in the heat dept. Would be nice to have a BN month.

I'd imagine that precip is the limiting factor for heat in most summer months: More rain/less heat v. less rain/more heat.

13 hours ago, Prestige Worldwide said:

No let's continue the run. Many of the people from the main discussion forum are pompous individuals who clearly think they are better than us.  They think they are the only ones who can actually interpret a weather model. If a non regular chimes in they do their best to discredit the post.  So I hope we continue getting hits and they get shutout. 

Why do the long-range models suck so bad?

Isn't there already a thread that covers the topic in the above slew of posts?

Just sayin'...

Feel for you guys - tough livin' in winter down there. If it makes things any easier, our snow may mostly be gone this week!

December wasn't hot.  It was warm.

Ice storms suck because they're a wasted combination of QPF and cold surface temps.

Wow, you really did get hosed in the 2/10/10 storm. I got lucky, it's that simple.

Yeah...we had one good band in mid-morning, but otherwise it was mostly intermittent light/moderate snow.

26-28" wins hands-down. 'Eff the rest.

The second February 2010 storm was interesting, but I had about 8" total, so I'm not that taken by it. Thing is, I feel like we're far less likely to get a storm like that again - a raging Miller B - than we are a February 5-6, 2010 storm - a quality Miller A.

My storm recollection is better than your storm recollection.

No rain yesterday at BWI so this is where we finished, rainiest June and 4th rainiest month ever.

They got 0.62" for today and many chances of rain are in the forecast, so I'm liking the rainiest summer record more and more.

 

For temperatures the month ended up way lower than I thought, with an average of only 74.1 degrees (+1.7 departure).

 

Remember when we were looking at top ten coldest year though back in early April? That was pretty funny.

Well...there are six months left in the year.

Oh I know, I don't take them seriously. There seems to be a lot of NoVa weenies who just pop up every storm now with these type of obs.

LWX isn't blinking- in fact, they've doubled down for my area. I've been upped to 6-8". I think, based on obs I've seen, that the screw zone is just south of northern Calvert. Still rain/sleet here.

It can be annoying. I'm not one to stick strictly to the book when it comes to what I call moderate or heavy snow, but when people make claims that it's "pouring snow" or "SN++" I can't help but be a little wary of it.

I think that when you guys it'll be a surprise and a pretty hefty dump over a relatively short period. You might not snow for as long as others, but it should come down good.

mattie g, I like you. will you visit our little south east corner more often please

Hey...that makes one of you!

Its sleet here now. Its always ripping and tearing  SN+++ obs from some people in the main thread, every storm.

I'd imagine that a lot of those are overblown.

Weather Underground forecast has me at -7 on Thursday. Pretty sure that's be the coldest I'd be since I moved to the area in 1997. We had a couple mornings below zero last year, but not that cold - maybe -3 or so...can't quite recall.

Either way, that's damn cold, let alone for nearly the end of February.

i have a feeling some of the people voting for 2/10 weren't here for 96.

Just because one storm was better for you doesn't mean it was better for everyone.

That winter seems so long ago now.  Winters have generally been lame since then, and my life is *way* different than it was that winter.  It's quite honestly almost like it never happened.

I know I am broken record but what made it so awesome were the rates early Monday morning. 3-4 per hour. It was a surprise in the totals but snow was definitely in the forecast.

There were rates easily that big in the '09-'10 storms.

It's all subjective, of course, but those storms were beasts.  December 18-19 was 20" of pretty heavy snow, too.  I definitely remember the blue tinge to it.

This winter sucks, which is no doubt the reason why this thread was started.

February 5-6, 2010.

That radar simply does not suck

I don't know.  It's looking a little ragged down in NC.  We might go to freezing drizzle and bust low.

2011-2012: 2.75"

2012-2013: 11"

2013-2014: 14"

Total: 27.75"

In just under three seasons, I've totalled slightly less that I got in that one storm.  That shows two things:

1) That storm was awesome

2) We generally suck

dec 09 and feb 10 were bigtime, but i still think 96 and 03 were the cream of the crop here and of course 93 was the godfather of east coast storms.  personal opinion.

I hardly even remember PD2.  I'd suspect it's because I was working (bartender) and drunk pretty much the whole time because barely any other restaurants were open for a few days afterwards.

I got stuck in Wilkes-Barre, PA during '96.  We got about 20" up there, while my hometown in Jersey got 33".

December 18-19 was an awesome storm, but its 22" was almost dwarfed by the 27" from Feb 5-6.  I only got 8-9" from Feb 10, but the morning blizzard band was pretty sick.

No doubt, though, that Dec 18-19 was in my top 5 all time. Easy.

 

Don't worry. It'll be bumped again next year as we pine for some sort of appreciable snow for the third year running.

 

H2O is very, very sad.