MN Transplant

Freezing rain, 31.6

I’m imagining the Imperial March as I loop the CC

Might need a flood watch.

If we ever had them, we've already lost the 850s by this time.

000 SXUS71 KLWX 051905 RERDCA RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC 204 PM EST TUE FEB 5 2019 ...RECORD HIGH SET AT WASHINGTON NATIONAL DC... A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 72 DEGREES HAS BEEN SET AT RONALD REAGAN WASHINGTON NATIONAL AIRPORT NEAR WASHINGTON DC SO FAR TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 70 DEGREES SET BACK IN 1991 AND 1890. WEATHER RECORDS FOR THE WASHINGTON DC AREA HAVE BEEN RECORDED AT WHAT IS NOW RONALD REAGAN WASHINGTON NATIONAL AIRPORT SINCE 1941. THE OFFICIAL WEATHER RECORD CONSISTS OF THAT DATA BACK TO 1945, AND OBSERVATIONS TAKEN IN DOWNTOWN WASHINGTON FROM 1871 THROUGH 1944. TEMPERATURE RECORDS FOR THE WASHINGTON DC AREA EXTEND BACK TO JANUARY OF 1872, WITH PRECIPITATION RECORDS EXTENDING BACK TO JANUARY OF 1871 AND SNOWFALL RECORDS EXTENDING BACK TO JANUARY OF 1884. ALL CLIMATE DATA ARE CONSIDERED PRELIMINARY UNTIL REVIEWED BY THE NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION (NCEI)

70.2 DCA’s record is 70 but the river is an issue

Good inversion night. Low was 45. Elevated places out west are in the 50s.

I'm not sure why they bothered with that explanation. It was clearly helmet to helmet.

11/15/2018 1.5 1/12-1/13/19 9.8 1/17/19 1.4 1/29/19 1.4 2/1/19 1.3 18-19 Seasonal 15.4

1.3". If I can squeeze out another tenth I can have my third 1.4" report of the season.

0.8" in Falls Church.

The roads are snow covered except in the spots that they were heavily brined/salted. It is a dry snow, though, so they aren't actually that slick. As long as you are paying attention and making deliberate decisions, travel is fine. Of course, those qualities are in short supply in this region so it'll probably be a cluster. Flake size has picked up again. Nice little event.

6.3 was the low here. Pretty even temperature distribution inside the DC Beltway.

I’m fairly certain that he is just pointing out the anomaly of the east-west winds. U (and V) are used as coordinates to describe direction. In this case, U would be east-west, V would be north-south, and W (or Z) would be vertical from the surface.

Minus 2

Literally the radar beam hitting the "mountains".

Well, I sure as hell am not going to be rooting for it to stop snowing. I hope I lose as badly as possible!

Well, back up 3 degrees since the "squall". 26.9

Just some flurries. Lost 10 degrees in 30 minutes, though. 23.7

There is an actual outflow boundary being thrown off of this thing. Nice. The 2015 event was similarly much, much better in MD than in VA/DC. It was fun for a couple of minutes here, but we ended up with 0.2" plastered on everything.

Up to 34.1. Snow is hanging on.

That's what the models have been showing. I'm 31.1 and rising, right in line with all of the stations around me. No surprises.

11/15/2018 1.5 1/12-1/13/19 9.8 1/17/19 1.4 1/29/19 1.4 18-19 Seasonal 14.1

Nah, only bad with radiatively-induced inversions. I’m at 31.5 now. It was more of a commentary on how the story of this event changed from a serious cold front to a weak cold front followed by the real cold air a day later.

I’ve fallen one degree over the last 4 hours. Flash freeze!