09-10 analogy

Missed out on the fun last night. What was it like in upper NW DC? No complaints from me though. My daughter (very proud of her) got into Colgate so we’re scoping out Hamilton NY. Easy excuse for snow chases the next four years. They still have some smaller piles of the stuff up here.

it was great and nice to be able to throw a party for our family and friends. We’d been engaged for 3 years and my wife and I figured we owed them that for making them wait so long!

Great pics. I have fond memories of the ANC; my wife and I got married there!

Some fierce wind gusts over the past half hour or so, kicking up the snow

Streets still clear in upper NW but that certainly belies what's going on right above. This has been more than legit over the past hour or so although it's winding up now. Combo of cold, snow, and wind is as good as it's been since the biggie in 2016. Past hour, in fact, was a bit reminiscent of that Saturday afternoon. Well, except for the fact there's 1-2" maybe on the ground as opposed to 22". Someone posted earlier that, recently at least, March has been DC's second best snow month after January. Today is further confirmation of that.

Getting this afternoon what I thought we were going to get this morning. Moderate snow with a good bit of it blowing around. Maybe even moderate-plus at times, but it's hard to tell with it blowing around.

Hmm ... hearing some pingers again in upper NW.

Ground and cars becoming a little paler in upper NW as the snow begins to fall more heavily. And getting a little wind now.

All snow now in upper NW so the changeover was about 17 minutes or so.

Yeah the winds are definitely less than they were around say 6-630. Hope they pick up a bit later.

Definitely flakes mixing in now.

A FLAKE! And mostly sleet now. This also kinda reminds me of Commutageddon, with the rain to sleet to snow quick change. Don't think I'll see the kind of thundersnow I had with that one (more than any other storm I can remember) but hopefully the winds (which weren't that prominent in Jan 2011) will make up for that.

Getting some sleet mixing in now. Also got very dark there for a moment.

Peering out the window trying to glimpse the first flakes, but the window is so obscured by the wind-driven rain that it's hard to see. This might be the most ridiculous ob I've ever posted. On a somewhat related note, hard to believe it's been 29 years since the Superstorm. This morning's nationwide warning map looks a bit like it might have then, with just everything displaced to the west a bit and not as amped. But the tornado watches in the SE/Florida, the winter weather watches/advisories into the northern Gulf states ... all there. Of course, most of DC metro was under a blizzard warning then ... don't know if it ever verified.

Oh, I know, I'm just talking about the juxtapositioning on the map.

Can't ever remember seeing a blizzard warning just long a ridge line like this one with the Shenandoahs, or a blizzard warning emmeshed in WWAs.

A little bit o' Superstorm, a little bit o' Feb 14 2015, a little bit o' ... Wasn't there a storm in March of 1984 that was real dynamic around here and dropped a few inches of snow along with very strong winds? Same storm that caused the Carolinas tornado outbreak that killed dozens (was one of my earliest severe weather memories, I was in Columbia SC visiting relatives with my parents on my school break at the time. I'll never forget looking to the northwest at this ungodly huge supercell.)

Snow maps at range are generally OK for codifying the impossible.

Well Peter is probably not long for the world, and the sons ... I've read conflicting reports. That they may have to sell the team to pay the inheritance taxes, for one. Maybe Elon Musk will buy them and try to move them to Olympus Mons or something. The O's did have a pretty good five-year run in the mid 2010s and might have won the series in 2014 if Wieters and Machado weren't hurt, and Davis on his Adderal suspension (yeah, he was good back then). And KC was just running the frickin' table with seeing-eye bloop singles.

Maybe there's hope for the Orioles to become competitive before I die. This season -- if it happens -- should at least be interesting, with Adley and maybe G-Rod making their debuts.

The "Tyrant" Concerto just doesn't have the same ring to it.

Question: This is from the 5 AM Norton (Boston) AFD: "In addition, as dry slot approaches eastern MA and RI this afternoon, model soundings indicate a potential moist absolute unstable layer (MAUL) in this area." Now, is "MAUL" an acronym that has widespread and accepted usage in the NWS/met community? Or is it the AFD's writer just having a bit of fun? Because it's certainly appropriate to what they're experiencing.

The latest AFD for Boston is pure poetry, however.

I'm with you on the disappointment but try not to let it get to you too much. I don't know how long you've lived in the area, but you go through this enough around here, you develop hard bark, but still, ones like this can sting a little. I'm not into this one at all, given what's happening to the north and east. Yeah, yeah, expectations, climatology. All very logical, but this isn't the rational part of the brain we're dealing with, this is 200 proof subjectivity. I'm rare around here, I guess, in that to me, one HECS (say 18") is more than the sum of the parts of three (6") SECS or even two (9") MECS.

Hell, I'm gonna get more snow tomorrow than that.