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February 18-19, 1979 - "PDI" - DCA 18.7" (#3), BWI 20.0" (#8), IAD 16.3" (#6) February 11, 1983 - DCA 16.6" (#6), BWI 22.8" (#5), IAD, 22.8" (#3) March 13-14, 1993 - "Superstorm of '93" - not top-10 at DCA/BWI, 14.1" at IAD (#8) February 10-11, 1994 ice storm January 7-9, 1996 - "Blizzard of '96" - DCA 17.3" (#5), BWI 26.6" (#2), IAD 24.6" (#2) January 25, 2000 - not top-10 at airports February 15-17, 2003 - "PDII" - DCA 16.4" (#7T), BWI 26.8" (#1), IAD 21.7" (#4) December 18-19, 2009 - "Snowpocalypse" - DCA 16.4" (#7T), BWI 18.0" (#10), IAD 18.0" (#5) February 5-6, 2010 - "Snowmageddon, part 1" - DCA 17.8" (#4), BWI 25.0" (#4), IAD 32.4" (#1) February 9-10, 2010 - "Snowmageddon, part 2" - not top-10 at DCA/IAD, BWI 19.5" (#9) 3-day snowfall totals from http://www.erh.noaa.gov/lwx/winter/storm-pr.htm

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/snow-and-ice/rsi/nesis ninja'd by Fozz

Good stuff, Rodney.

Yeah, we've had this awesome persistent negative anomaly over most of the continuous 48. (Dec-Feb followed by Mar-May)

The double edited it, so DCA's total was 7.2"

Quite possible that both 1958 storms would have made that list.

Do you have the top-10 on hand, Rodney?

NOAA puts out a monthly climate report. It usually comes out about a week into the next month. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/

Rodney, have you split it out before and after the move to the river location?

We were due for a lull after the run we had in the prior few years.

All-time monthly December high minimums set at IAD and BWI on the 22nd.

Hi max vs hi min is even more lopsided.

Very cool. High temps season to date almost dead median with the 1930-present climate record.

MSP's records at the time were right downtown. It could be argued that the UHI was more acute in the 1930s than at the airport location now. Of course, since the dust bowl was partly anthropogenic, you wade into other territory...

14.02" at DCA just back in 2006, so probably out of reach there.

I had 24.7" in the first and 9" in the second, but with compaction and drifting it never really seemed like there was more snow around on Feb 10 than there was on Feb 6.

That's where I get a little jealous. At no point did my yard have over 30", let alone 4'+.

That's funny. Honestly, I was just venting about not seeing snow and somebody in the thread asked about the snowless drought. I did the initial stat gathering, but Ian deserves most of the credit for the nice writeup and figures.

Depressing.

Incredible.

Added 2nd warmest July/month.