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27f low

27 at home. Driving to work observed several large patches of skim ice on the South River. (Tidal, and shallow) Seems slightly early in the season for river ice.

November totals 5.47" lowest temp 26f; highest 76f

Heavy downpour Annapolis. Couple claps of thunder.

BWI: 16.1 DCA: 10.2 IAD: 17.3 RIC: 10.4 SBY: 4.5

26 f

30.5 at 9pm here. First freeze here by a lot.

4.95" total for October. Temps Max 77, min 38. Rather unremarkable.

Ugh. Truth hurts. 41 for my min, with DP 41 we're not going anywhere. Shows the power of moisture.

2.05" for Thursday, Another .27 overnight . Just starting to see some blue in the sky now. Could be a nice improvement for the weekend.

Very light rain, even though the moon is breaking through clouds. Caught me by surprise, but looking at radar, (if it's to be believed), there's more to our north. 53/53 currently.

BWI: October 19 IAD: October 18 DCA: November 12 RIC November 9 TB: 78F

Went for a damage patrol drive. Many pieces of tulip poplar on roads but only one or 2 of size. Md rte 450 flooding has neen moved further east. Passable. This white pine 0.7 miles from my house may have took lightning. Bark is peeled and the area smells like a Christmas tree lot. Doesn't seem like wind damage, we didn't get much. But maybe.

Should've been very close to me , per Rhino's radar shot, but no evidence here. Except the longest, strongest T&L of the season. P.s. power back on for now

Rain, and some gusts. Just lost power too

Legit, strong, close CG hits. Still waiting for rain or wind

Mega thunder here. No rain, no wind. Patch of blue sky to the SE.

Non-stop thunder to my west past 5-10 minutes.

T- storm with heavy rain. Respectable wind and thunder, but mostly raining hard. Radar predicts us under it for a while, but I think it may weaken. Eta..power flickering too

I hope no one minds that I've resurrected a post from Sept 25, but a coworker was looking at this snowfall data and suggested that we check to see if any of these years had a warm Christmas Day. Well, I got to looking at the data, and found some of it interesting, and dare I say, encouraging. For those old enough to remember the first Washington's Birthday storm in Feb 1979, look at the similarities. (Listed as Dec 1978 ) Even the coolest 12/25 in 1884 fired off a high of 66 on 12/31. (I looked at the late Dec period in general, not just 12/25.) I didn't expect the see anything in this, but now I think it's worthy of posting. Thanks for your indulgence. ---------- Original Posted Data; Updated------------- Dry Sept -vs- snowfall amount: I investigated the 8 years mentioned by LWX in the AFD today regarding driest Septembers. (5 Driest Septembers BWI, DCA, IAD) Using BWI annual snowfall records, (normal 20.1 inches), I checked the following winters of each year for either normal, or above normal; rounding to the nearest inch. So basically, if a winter was 20" or higher it makes the winner's circle. (2005 wouldn't have made it without the rounding to 20, but eh, close enough) So, I was a bit surprised that only 2007, at 9" was below normal. Here's the years and following winter snowfall (Balto snow data): Update 1/2/20: Added the Max Temp on Christmas Day, Dec Max T, Dec Snowfall, and monthly temp departure. 12/25 Max Dec Max (day) Other notable Dec Snow (3.0 avg) Dep 1884 - 31" 32f 66f, 12/31 63f on 12/7 3.8” +1.4 1906 - 31" 32 68, 12/6 66 on 12/15 0.2 -0.4 1967 - 23" 40 62, 12/22 61 on 12/19 4.6 +0.6 1977 - 34" 52 59, 12/14 26/13 on 12/28 0.5 -1.1 1978 - 43" 48 72, 12/8 71 on 12/4 0 +3.4 2005 - 20" 42 58, 12/24 6.0 -2.7 2007 - 9" 50 63, 12/23 nothing else over 59 4.8 +1.1 2014 - 29"  61 69, 12/1 61 on 12/24, 60, 12/28 0.2 +3.2 2019 - ?? 49 65, 12/28 0.3 +3.2 avg = 27.5” The 1977 was only at DCA; 1978 and 2014 only at IAD. Otherwise pretty good mix. Hope we don't see another 2007/8 winter; or worse.

BWI 11/8 IAD 10/29 DCA 11/24 RIC 11/7 Tie Rainfall 9.1”

1.5 " here. Drove out about 7:15 all roads snowy. Return 9:00 and starting to get salt water slush in many places. One car slid off of Rte 424..

Well heck. Now that I look at that link, it would be 8 straight days if they lowered their standard to 0.15". I'd consider the 0.4 to be a substantial number. Perhaps the 0.15 just spreads out the various records too far, making "records" everywhere. This isn't a particular record I've looked closely at before. So, I'm sort of stumbling through the high weeds.

I guess I should have just listed that AFD, so here it is (sorry) It has been an unusually wet pattern over the last week. For DCA (Reagan National), there has been at least 1/4" of rain each of the last 7 days. This is the longest streak on record. The previous longest was 5 days in 2011, 2009, 1975, 1950, 1942, and 1937. Precipitation records date back to 1871

The AFD said 1/4", which I was skeptical of. So I immediately came here to check and Rodney lists 0.4", which I find more believable. The years listed did not include 1996, which I remembered as a summer of rain. But I didn't check the record.