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  1. mattskiva
    3.11" since 10pm here in Chantilly/Bull Run. Still absolutely pouring
  2. mattskiva
    Curious why many (most?) picked DCA and BWI to have higher max temps than IAD. Any of the three can be the hottest on a given day, but it seems that on recent hot days, IAD has usually had the highest temperature, especially due to its favorable location for the local effects of downsloping winds.
  3. mattskiva
    Stuck in between the two training areas all day, lots of distant thunder but only about 0.25" here. 3" showing up on precip maps 10 miles to my west and 15 miles to the east of here.
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    I'm in it here in far SE loudoun. Thunder and lightning, rain, a little wind, but nothing spectactular here.
  5. mattskiva
    Storm passed literally right over my hiuse a couple minutes ago, about 2 mins before I got the cell phone alert. Brief heavy rain, wind and small hail but no tornado
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    We got 6" here in Loudoun from that one.
  7. mattskiva
    32 degrees mod SN, about 1.5" here in southeast Loudoun. Been snowing pretty hard for almost 2hr
  8. mattskiva
    Eastern Loudoun is WWA
  9. mattskiva
    Fair, but I suspect most of their facebook audience is DC people who care about the weather, not people overseas looking for stories about fish and dams. Also, even if they pick up global/continental weather related stories, I am still not sure how that one has anything whatsoever to do with weather. Except, of course, for the fishnadoes.
  10. mattskiva
    So CWG facebook has been about 4:1 climate change to actual capital weather posts for a while now, but now they are posting about ... fish being impacted by dams? Unless its going to increase the risk of downstream fishnadoes (in which case sign me up)... why?
  11. mattskiva
    Despite what the models say, it very rarely actually works out like that.
  12. mattskiva
    One big event, in addition to all the small events and persistent snowpack, would make this a really good winter.
  13. mattskiva
    I remember when the Euro was king... apparently the king has been deposed, Game of Thrones style.
  14. mattskiva
    Still looks like a chance for a decent event here in Loudoun - and maybe a big storm for the Allegheny Front, which is really what I care about this time of year because there are no mountains to ski on the coastal plain.
  15. mattskiva
    0.75" here in SE Loudoun, snowing the hardest it has all day currently.
  16. mattskiva
    Oh I have no complaints about this winter so far. I would love to see a big storm but I've had like 20 days with 1" or more on the ground, and it's still January. That's more than I can remember in most of the 30 years I've lived in the area. The two small storms and persistent cold kept the snowpack intact until late last week.
  17. mattskiva
    This is just as off-topic - who cares about snow in NYC? There's a NYC forum for that. Nobody is posting about the actual storm at the moment - for obvious reasons
  18. mattskiva
    People prefer air travel. Rail is perceived like buses - for people who can't afford to fly. It has nothing to do with what politicians or "the US" wants -- the market doesn't want trains.
  19. mattskiva
    I believe that. It's expensive! Not kidding I have had colleagues take Acela to NY from DCA for twice what I paid to fly from IAD.
  20. mattskiva
    Given what Acela costs, nobody would be able to afford an actual high speed train. It would be like riding the Concorde. Unless the government paid all the costs. Which is why its pretty clear that the market has no desire to fund trains in this country. If there was market demand, it would exist.
  21. mattskiva
    Acela is often more expensive than the shuttle flights though. To barely go any faster than the regular train. The only advantage is it takes you into the city -- yeah if you live near DCA it makes sense, but not if you live near IAD
  22. mattskiva
    For those of us who live near (west of) IAD, the IAD to BOS flight (or even IAD to EWR/LGA) is way better than driving an hour to union station, parking, and then taking a slow, expensive train to the northeast, I've traveled from NoVA to the northeast hundreds of times in my career and took the train like twice - the number of times it took to realize how dumb that was living close to IAD. And a very large number of tech company commuters who regularly travel the northeast corridor live out here in Loudoun. That's why the flights to those cities are always full and the government has to subsidize Amtrak to keep its empty trains running.
  23. mattskiva
    Presumably Garrett and Tucker will get a lot more from upslope than would show on the models. That usually isn't modeled very well.
  24. mattskiva
    Ah got it. Makes sense. I was in Canaan in 2016 for that storm and was getting worried when there was very little snowfall initially the first day while NoVA was getting crushed, but later that night the upslope kicked in and they got 2 feet.
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    I've noticed a lot of these runs, even the ones that drop nothing on the DC/Balt metros, crush Garrett and Tucker counties. Is that wraparound as the storm moves NE? And is that typical in a Miller B scenario?
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