GramaxRefugee

59 minutes ago, George BM said:

Looked outside and it almost looks like a coating of snow fell overnight.

Drove on the Riva Rd bridge over the South River about 40 min ago, and the bridge surface had a slight coating as if a snow squall had been through. (sorry no pictures)

Low of 27f at home.

5 minutes ago, Maestrobjwa said:

Oh yeah I'm not downing the potential here. Just...a little calendar superstitious that's all. I look down the top 25 they either came between Jan 20th and Feb 20th...or early March (with the exception of a legendary Palm Sunday...hey I have an Aunt old enough to remember that...gotta ask her about that )

By my memory, the 1979 Washington Birthday storm was on the 19th, breaking a decade long HECS shortage for us. It was, however, a very cold Feb.

4 minutes ago, Ji said:

happy Vday

I can't get over the agreement between the 3 models so far out.

(Mr. +PNA should be in Heaven if this verifies )

1.34"

1 minute ago, nj2va said:

Mahomes doing a lot of complaining to the refs…Chiefs will most certainly get a bogus call here in the 2nd half.  

True. Very true. But I was shocked at those 2 holding calls at the end of half 1. Was thinking maybe the game's not as rigged as we think. 

Looks  like Charlottesville had 81f on that 1932 date. Other than that, Martinsburg would be the king of warmth; (from what I've seen so far)

1 hour ago, WEATHER53 said:

Is that the time BWI had a high of 17 four days in a row?

Looks like it was 18f on 4 days, but separated by 2 other days.:

14 hours ago, WxUSAF said:

Two days of -25F

Feb 2015 , -28 departure on 20th. 4 days of -24/-25. BWI

edit: Sorry; I see you mentioned that; (well, sorta)

Had reported storm total last night as 4.3" but a predawn snow upped it to 4.4 I guess. 

Melted the gauge for .34" liquid

Got another 0.1" snowfall overnight.

Low 14f

Beautiful sunshine 

at 8:00 measured 3.0" with 30f light snow.  Snow depth 5.5"

add'l: drove to medical appt in Annapolis, SHA plowing/salting. Road conditions improving, but some areas quite skittery.

10f low

Reported as 4.1" here in AACo. Some sleet must have mixed overnight.  Frz rn (very light) and 29 now

3.0" at 9:00pm, still snowing . 27f

0.25" snow in AACo.  25/21

Can't seem to advance beyond moderate flurries here in Davidsonville, so far. 

0.64" for the event, midnight hi of 53f. Down to 47 , breezy,  bits of sun

3 hours ago, vastateofmind said:

Sorry to hear this, and even if the losses were not great by your estimation, it still sucks. Our sump pump is ancient...we've lived in our home for 22 years, and it had already been installed for years before THAT. It works well and sounds the same as the day we moved in...really only gets a good workout (e.g., popping on every 20-30 min) maybe 4x-5x annually depending on how many biblical rainstorms we get, but I feel like we're beyond living on borrowed time there. If anyone has any good recommendations for a sump pump with battery backup, would love to hear them....

I used to have one of these: 12v bilge pump until we moved to a house without a basement.

But I don't really recommend it. You have to be there during the flood, and if so, you could just use a portable generator to plug in the usual pump. (Which I didn't have at the time)

My next door neighbor installed a 12v pump, but just like an antique car that sits in the garage, maintaining the battery was a pain. They moved before needing it, and our neighborhood stopped losing power so often after a BGE rework of the area. Last I looked, it was shown on the Home Depot site.

I have other stories too, but the bottom line for me was that I felt much better being able to pump out with power from my car, or from a genset, or whatever. Otherwise you just stand there watching it happen, and that is rather demoralizing.

48 minutes ago, H2O said:

How dare you hate on NAVD29!!!!!  I set so many benchmarks off monumentation that was NAD29!!!  

WSSC is still stuck on NGVD29. Which ripples through the survey world in MD.

2.64" at 2100 with rain still falling. 

Thanks to a few cheap midnight low temps, my station has been below freezing every day this month except the 1st. Same for IAD.
30f predawn/midnight today. 38 for the drive in to work

What a rough forecast ...either extreme cold, or above normal.

31/28 overcast 

27/23 at 2100L. Holding steady

DCA stuck at 40 all afternoon. Guess NA101 is right. Maybe touched 41, dunno