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Gotta say, been kinda amusing to see how badly the models have done with P-type in the Trenton area today... 12 hours of sleet, 4.4" total on the ground.

3 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

I remember back then you did some investigating and concluded that the LGA ASOS especially was out of whack.  And that the 40:1 ratios of the other stations were more reasonable but still probably off and the true ratio was probably more like 25:1  Does that sound about right, Ray?  It was like a storm the midwest might see- surprised we didn't get a blizzard warning here, but I guess the winds weren't high enough for long enough.

 

That sounds vaguely familiar but honestly my memory isn't all that clear from back then anymore.

4 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

I think LGA had like 80:1 ratios while the rest of the area was around 40:1 ratios.  I think that was the "sunrise snowstorm" I remember with the snow looking pink as it fell in front of the rising sun.  And then in winter 2009-10 in February we had the "sunset snowstorm" where pink snow fell at sunset!

 

I'd call that an "asos ratio" since that was back when all ASOS was even worse at snow:liquid ratios than it is now... back when all they had was tipping buckets.  Now some (including all that measure snow) have weighing gauges.

2 minutes ago, The Iceman said:

Thanks for sharing. I still love going through your winter storm archive. One of my favorite winter weather sites. Any chance you'll find the time to update it again? If it's something you're interested in at all, I wouldn't mind helping either since I know it's got to be a lot of work putting all the maps together. It's an awesome resource to relive the past winter storms .

 

 

I've been concentrating on other things the last several years. I still keep close tabs and save materials, I just haven't assembled anything in quite a few years.  I suspect that at some point, my focus will shift back towards it... I just can't say when, yet.

Noticed a few of you have seen my YouTube page   Thanks for the compliments.

With everything going on, I forgot that today is the 25th anniversary of the greatest snowstorm of my childhood. If you'd like to relive it with me, I put all the TV footage I recorded then on YouTube: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-9RwNUuaYM&list=PLsKEUOGm0GB4tDPkhigFpNa8pdH0BiZyg

With everything going on, I forgot that today is the 25th anniversary of the greatest snowstorm of my childhood. If you'd like to relive it with me, I put all the TV footage I recorded then on YouTube: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-9RwNUuaYM&list=PLsKEUOGm0GB4tDPkhigFpNa8pdH0BiZyg

Parents in Ewing are at 2.9" of snow for the season.  Last time the season started off this poorly was 1993...

Hi all,

Been a while since I posted.  I know many of you probably hope I'll get around to the winter storm archive again some day, and its possible I will, but since that day is not today, I figured I'd share with you something I have finally gotten around to... putting all my old TV recordings up on YouTube.  Its a lot of TWC and some old local news clips too (mostly WPVI at first, later branching to the other stations). So far I'm only thru early 1996, but since that did include the blizzard, I thought it was time to share.  I'm linking to the "playlists" page since that's the most organized, but if you want to dig thru every single video, just skip over to the videos page.

https://www.youtube.com/user/famartin1/playlists

Hope you enjoy!

Tomato, tomatoe. I lurk there quite a bit actually. Its still the same 3 or 4 folks talking to themselves day in, day out. There were more posts in this subforum today than the other site all subforums combined. Maybe thats not saying a whole lot tho.

And there it goes.  LOLZ.  Yeah there's really a problem with this place if it can't stand competition.

I deleted this comment before, but really, I don't care what happens here.  I don't spend any time here.  I go to Tom's forum.  Since I'm in the mid-atlantic now, I go there too, but my time spent in this sub-forum is near zero.  Given that situation and the lack of posting in general, it would make sense to merge the forums and just have a Philly area thread for obs/disco/banter.  They do that for other regions in NYC and in Mid-Atlantic already.

Tombo's board is more quiet than this forum, no offense to him.

no its not.  i go there mostly. 

Some people find 70s hot in any season

Late Christmas Eve night felt like June with the 65F dew point and crickets chirping

So looking at everything I think the following records are in play at BWI (hard to keep all these straight lol):

Daily record high: Dec. 23, 24, 25

Daily record high minimum: Dec. 24, 25

Monthly record high: Dec. 24

Wow I had no idea 1998 had that many- thanks for looking this up!

Something else I was wondering but don't have enough data- what's the record for most number of 70+ degree days in December (and also any winter month) for BWI?

DCA 5 in 1982

IAD 5 in 1998 and 1982

BWI 5 in 1998

Winter

DCA 7 in 1976

IAD 6 in 1976

BWI 6 in Feb 1976

Well I know there's input meant more like I figured no one was specifically thinking let's forecast a Dec record... but maybe. That's kind of ballsy if so from this range esp given the station didn't perform too admirably last go. But models do have a fairly high dew point environment most of the day. IAD also has a 62 record from that day... DCA must have gotten river winded.

Looks like it... low was just before midnight

http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KDCA/2013/12/22/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA&theprefset=SHOWMETAR&theprefvalue=1

I think these are all just gridded so I doubt someone necessarily was like hey let's forecast a December record for min temps but it's there for Thurs now.  Guess it could come down to midnight that night too though.

 

There is input from forecasters.  Also of note, that would not be a BWI record, which is an astonishing 62 from 12/22/2013

Actually I'm wondering if BWI can get the high minimum today too (46). Tonight into the morning should be no problem but the low for Tues night/ Wed morning is forecast to be 40- not sure if we can hold it through midnight.

Its possible... MAV guidance has been doing well for highs but bad for lows, reverse is true for MET.  MAV says it is a record, MET says no.  Depends on how fast it radiates tonight.

IAD and BWI records today, no dice for DCA.

All tied or broken through 3PM.

Missed at DCA (68) and IAD (71)

BWI missed the record highest min by just one degree... oh well, at least this will still keep us in a good position to hold onto the big positive departure we got going.

It'll get cooler this evening so it probably doesn't matter anyway.

80 at DCA, IAD and BWI today. 

We lost power for 3 days in this ice storm in Dec 2008...it really sucked.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But I'll admit, I might do it again because it was pretty cool seeing that much ice. Maybe like a once a decade type thing.

Once every 20 years would be fine for me, that's a lot of destruction.  But, that still means I'm due