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I'm not writing off Sunday yet (or Friday/Saturday for the NW burbs).

Very happy to see the southern areas cash in today who missed out on last Saturday's storm.  A late blooming winter in the MA!

Great pictures!

NWS just posted that it's close and we need to get past the low from this morning but numbers from the F6 say it's there. Maybe the F6 is wrong.

 

 

 

Definitely an impressive month.  I wish IAD had a longer record ... or DCA wasn't a heat island of doom. IAD outpaced DCA with records like a million to one this winter. 

Yeah, I saw their Facebook post that it was close, but by the looks of your table, we got it.  I went back and looked at 84...Dulles got to 35 on 3/31/84.  With such an anomalous month, we were bound to break records at Dulles.

ETA:  from their Facebook post:  

Really interesting.

Dulles appears to have finished with the coldest March on record (since 1963) with 37.4. Edged out 1984 by 0.1 by my calcs.

Impressive. A really interesting March.

it was right around this time that the flakes starting falling imby that Friday night          

Yup, I remember it was around 9 or so that it started in Arlington. ::sigh::

It can get complicated real quick...(snip)

Coastal, extremely helpful post, thank you. You have a great way of explaining things in "dumbed" down terms and the images really bring the point home.

Ellinwood posted this on his site a couple of weeks ago. It was helpful:

*green line is dewpoint. It was cut off on my screen cap of the legend.

This is awesome, thanks for posting this. So in your example, at the 500mb level, the temp is ~-29C?

If you can get past the cheesy soundtrack, this video chronicles the storm from start to finish. My favorite part is between 1:05 and 1:45. So beautiful!

Cute! At first I found the soundtrack annoying, but I actually grew fond of it...it was kind of peaceful. Back then, I laughed off a 6" inch storm threat. Now, I'd give away my dog for that.

A great start to a great winter. I got about 18" from that one.

it was for most of it but we had about 2-3 seconds of more violent shaking nearer the end

Yep, downtown DC. I saw about 4 seconds of moderate shaking and then 4 seconds of violent shaking at the end.

34 inches in Crofton which was the closest snowfall report to my location in Odenton, truly epic and amazing.

My funny story to share is my husband and I going to the grocery store Thursday night. We didn't need the basics (we had gone earlier in the week before the news got serious about the threat) but we did want junk food and booze for the weekend. So here we are with our little cart filling up on cookies, chips/dip, fatty breakfast sandwhiches, ice cream, frozen pizza and appitizer meals while everyone else is clearing out the store of bread, milk, TP, eggs, fruits/veggies and meat. We are standing in line, our cart just a little over half full looking around at people with overflowing carts or even multiple carts just FILLED with endless amounts of the basics, like the world was coming to an end. We were given dirty looks, people were even making comments under their breath about how we were not going to survive the weekend on just junk food. It was incredible.

The woman who rang us up at the register smiled and thanked us for not going crazy and giving her a small break from the endless amounts of purchases she had been ringing up for hours. We smiled and laughed as we walked out with our 60$ purchase of junk food while everyone else fought over the last gallon of milk. Cracks me up to this day how insane people got due to the storm. Only to see people back out again on Tuesday buying MORE food for Wednesdays storm.

Ha, good story! I wish I saved the pictures I took on my phone of the Wegmans in Fairfax a few days before the storm. The bread aisles were completely cleared out.