GramaxRefugee

Never (in satellite era). This is not too shabby 2014. (2015 about the same): link for the curious: https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/ice/historicalAnim/

22 low eta: the tidal South River was shockingly frozen about 1/3, I estimate. I expected only some skim ice on the periphery.

Well here ya go Nov snow lovers... FDK and others also, but not IAD or DCA (as far as I could see) Take note that DCA went 2 f lower than BWI

Reached a low of 27 after midnight, but climbed to about 32 by dawn. No evidence of snowfall here.

.24" so far

My morning low has already been beaten by 1, and clear sky with 25 DP tells me it will be lower by midnight. Currently 28/25

Low 29.

I've had visitors here in winter that also expect us to get more snow than we do. But my friend from coastal Maine, who always hated their weather, described winter as a week of below zero temps followed by a warm up and rain. He's just described winter on much of the East coast; (adjusted for temp).

Mowed Sunday, (partly to get some bags of leaf mulch). At the time, I was pretty sure I'd have another cutting on the South facing slope at least, but after 2+" of rain I'll have to re-evaluate. In fact, this morning the whole neighborhood was a big mess of wet leaves.

Storm total 2.4"

1.31 at obs time, still raining.

I think that chart is wrong for 1987, when we only had 31". Eta : I get closer to 24 than 26, so the basic idea is true. Interesting.

Yeah but you know how to work a measuring stick.

With one of the analogs being the highest in the POR, (2010) I would be tempted to remove the highest and lowest before averaging. (Unfortunately, that would leave only 2 years) Just a thought. ETA: I did the average by this method and it came out 21.8" vs 35.0". Hmmm

33 low. But I was surprised at the amount of frost, especially on roofs up the street. Downright heavy.

That is a high bar. They seem to go on for decades.

And I guess there's no "who are you and what have you done with the real Chuck?" emoji either.

0.23" in the gauge

BWI: 8.3" DCA: 5.9" IAD: 13.0" RIC: 3.1" Tiebreaker SBY: 5.0"

Eh, not something to be taken too seriously (IMO). But, now that you bring it up... ...CWG made a reference to the Doug Kammerer 1" outlook last year, and I heard that he is bullish on this year, So, if that verifies, I for one, will be duly impressed.

Them last year:

Led to our coldest Dec on record, and a white Christmas. (At least that's what I wrote on an ornament I carved for my wife that year). Dang, we're old.

quote from the report: Below are the analogs that scored at least 2 points are as follows: ✓ 1951-52 (3 points) ✓ 1958-59 (2 points) ✓ 1965-66 (3 points) ✓ 1972-73 (2 points) ✓ 1976-77 (3 points) ✓ 1986-87 (2 points) ✓ 2002-03 (2 points) ✓ 2006-07 (2 points) ✓ 2009-10 (5 points) ✓ 2018-19 (2 points) -------------------------- The others aren't even in the same ballpark. I'm only half serious, and there is a disclaimer, and all that, but...I can't wait for @Jebman to see this. (Thanks @Terpeast, for the nice work.)

True...See this post in the NYC Metro forum. LGA average first freeze later than both RDU and Tallahassee FL. Yes; NY freezes later than FL. https://www.americanwx.com/bb/topic/59595-october-2023/?do=findComment&comment=7036993

Looking at the Chesterfield County Airport reported 22f this morning; and it's just across town from RIC. That's 22f while DCA was 34.