kgottwald

Looked like it was going to be a sunny day for the first time in forever, but in the last ten minutes, whoops! Here come the clouds, rolling in as always . . . Blah!

We had a couple of one-inch events, then a 4-inch storm two days before the inauguration, the snow cover from which made possible DCA's -4 low. Then a 2-inch storm to end the month, which turned out to be the last snow for the season (until a half inch in April!!) I remember Bob Ryan and Gordon Barnes were hyping up an event for February 6th that just turned into a light icing and some drizzle.

I remember the March 8, 1984 thundersnow. My house got those rates, as did Dulles.

I don't own a vehicle. I walk or use public transit everywhere. That much snow would pretty much guarantee I would eventually be hit by a car as I try to navigate around the drifts.

The wind woke me up briefly. Sounded like it was raining, so I didn't look out the window. When I got up at 6:15, there was the thinnest possible dusting.

Completely overcast in DC (though NWS insists it's supposed to be "mostly sunny"). Haven't seen a single flake of snow, though.

Still below 40 in Tysons Corner. When is it going to reach the low fifties?

January 1977 had record cold monthly means throughout the southeast. Even Miami and the Bahamas had snow flurries! Here in northern VA I remember a weeks-long period of snow cover but with a thick coating of ice - so you couldn't really play in it or build snowmen. The only areas to excel in snow that year were the lake-effect belts. Buffalo was absolutely isolated from the rest of the world for a time, with cars and trucks invisible under the drifts.

Thought we'd get more sun today. Nothing but gloom after 9:30 this morning.

I got six inches of snow, followed by many hours of freezing drizzle. Felt like a bust, with how much the TV mets were hyping it up.

1989-90 but warmer.

December 30, 2000. Predictions for DC were all over the map and ranged as high as a foot. In the end we got . . . Clear skies. It wasn't even cloudy!! I stopped even paying attention to the forecasts for the rest of that winter. December 25, 1985. We were supposed to get a white Christmas, the first in my memory. But the cold air stalled over the Appalachians and all we got was a little sleet that soon melted. January 14, 1983. Again, up to a foot was predicted, we got a brief flurry. 2/11 more than made up for it though.

So far this month, IAD and DCA have had 0.83 and 0.84 inches of rain - while Tucson got 1.15 and Phoenix 0.79!

Not a drop of rain in DC or Fairfax County. Models blow it again.

And I was fooled by NWS' forecast and took my umbrella today.