MN Transplant

Is the boardwalk area on the east(?) side beyond the pond new-ish, or am I just not remembering it? We were there about a decade ago and the again about 4 years ago with the kid, but in the latter trip we didn’t go as far. Amazing how Buck and Aikman had the pulse of the nervous Vikings fans at 29-7, and the immediately the next ball gets tipped into a pick and it just snowballs. The cornerback situation is just atrocious behind Peterson.

Well, I can safely say, with no chance that this will look stupid soon enough, that the Lions are a way better team than the Steelers.

Up in PA for a couple of days to get away from home. Longwood Christmas is amazing. I’ve been in this area coming up on two decades and realized that this was the first time that I didn’t use the 95 or 270 corridors to travel north through Maryland. Going up 695 to 83 I saw signs for all of the places I only hear about because of this forum! And the typical MD story, I was on 695 coming up on a work van that had the “this vehicle travels the speed limit” sticker. It was going ~17 over, which I thought was about right for MD speed limits.

Light snow.

HRRR at range and 3km NAM are bone dry

Gust to 48 at DCA.

It was the most obvious "upset" of the year.

10pm ob at DCA on 12/2 is 64 degrees.

Graupel in Falls Church.

In Minnesota, we always talked about the two levels of freezes. The official one at 32, and then the "killing" freeze in the mid-20s. My low so far this season has been 29.7. There is stuff still quite alive in my yard.

BWI: 10" DCA: 8" IAD: 12" RIC: 6" Tiebreaker (SBY): 4"

Fake. There are no speed limits in MD.

Big variation with calm winds this morning. Manassas made the teens, IAD low 20s, most of the DC beltway area in the mid-20s, my hill was 30, DCA 31, and DC downtown in the low 30s.

Interesting that the upper air temps are flat overnight at 925mb, but warm rapidly at 850mb.

It is pretty easy. Last night the winds stayed up and kept the atmosphere more mixed. Therefore there was a more homogeneous temperature distribution. On the 20th, it was whisper calm, and that is where the river and heat island take over. The river on the 20th was still 47 degrees at little falls.

Andrews was 31. H2O in Alex was 31. I was 30. I don’t know what you are talking about. We know exactly where the thermometer is, in the middle of a grassy area on the river side of the runways.

Temps flatlined or rose everywhere once we got to ~2am.

That is a sad OP run for getting into early Dec.

31.5. First freeze.

75.6 for my high. Impressive.

It was annoying to lull and have the reports from the normal spots to the NW. Still, 24” and wind in the 2nd half was a win.

If IAD is only going to 31 on a clear calm night, DCA doesn’t stand a chance.

The story, as I understand it, is that someone bought the original Eastern server. He had it for a while and kept it active. But he passed away at some point. I think Ian and others know the full study.

I like the 80kt 925 winds just south of DC on that 12z Euro run

Yup. Damn shame the Eastern server went down and then the new owner passed away.