PrinceFrederickWx

4th day in a row for storms. 6.58” for the month so far.

New highs for the airports. RodneyS still leads. BWI: 92 DCA: 91 IAD: 90 RIC: 93

So help me God, if May 29 ends up being the hottest day of the year, I will never, ever hold this contest again.

The only thing you’re going to win is a first round draft pick for yet another contest.

Higher numbers up now from yesterday (these will probably be the highest we have for awhile): BWI: 89 DCA: 90 IAD: 88 RIC: 89

Alright, that gives us an even 25 people playing. Contest is now closed- we’re ready to go!

We have 23 people playing which is about the best I'd hoped for given it's summer and many aren't around. Since there's no real game-changing temps on the horizon at the moment, I'm ok keeping it open this weekend if any stragglers show up ( @WxWatcher007 perhaps?) It reminds me of 2012- blowtorch spring, early June cooled down, then all hell broke lose later in the month (BWI was 103 and DCA was 104 on the day of the derecho).

Last day to enter! We have 18 people playing so far:

Watch today be the hottest temperature of the year lol

Three days left to sign up. Here's the roster so far: @EastCoast NPZ just noticed you listed OKV as tiebreaker, which is not a choice. It needs to be CHO, SBY or HGR.

We’re gonna torch- editing mine up a bit: BWI: 103 DCA: 101 IAD: 99 RIC: 102 Tiebreaker HGR: 98

Ten days left. 13 people signed up so far. Not alerting George BM cause I wanna see him forget about his troll forecast again.

There was a study done by Arizona State back in 1998 that showed a statistically significant correlation between weekends and rainfall (including tropical systems) on the east coast. At the time, air pollution was blamed- would be interesting to have an updated look, twenty years later: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/08/980814070429.htm

Forecast the hottest temperature that will be recorded at the four airports (BWI, DCA, IAD, RIC) at any time between the start of met summer (June 1) and the end of astronomical summer (September 23). For the tiebreaker, choose only one of the following three locations: Charlottesville (CHO), Salisbury (SBY), or Hagerstown (HGR). As of right now, this will be a one-time contest, but if it goes over well I may make this an annual summer event. Thanks to @Roger Smith for the idea! Winner will be the person with the lowest absolute value departure and will be announced on September 24 (or sometime around then). Good luck! I'll start this off with mine: BWI: 102 DCA: 100 IAD: 99 RIC: 101 Tiebreaker HGR: 98

Finally getting into the good stuff now.

Look at that fringejob dammit...can it nudge south like about 1,000 feet lol

@yoda I’m good- I slept through it lol Looks like I got 0.54”.

That was basically a cartopper here.

I saw it... at work in Suitland lol Nothing at home. This winter sucks ass, with the exception of about 48 hours between January 12-14 and a few hours in December.

Not sure if @RodneyS had noticed this, but for DCA, the 10.3" recorded from 1/12-14 this year would make #7 on the list of top 3-day snowfalls, per their criteria (i.e. snowfall must have occurred on all three days). This would be on the second chart, not the first one that lists top snowfalls overall. https://www.weather.gov/lwx/winter_storm-pr#TopDaySnowfall

0.2" of sleet on top of the 1" of snow so far.

Whomever made the forecasts at LWX looks to be spot on, though many of the experts here said the forecast was too bullish. They've been very good all winter IMBY. I don't know if you work there or what (I'm not into the whole forum clique that knows everyone in-person) so maybe your response was some kind of inside joke?

LWX is much, much better at forecasting snow than this forum (especially this winter).

Yeah its like 2/21/15- these setups just don't work for us. My seasonal totals are actually not that much more than 16/17- both were "one-and-done" winters. Though I think I preferred 16/17 to this winter because (for once) we stole everyone's snow.

1.0” here, flipping to sleet, sky is lightening. Lame event IMBY