Heaviest snow of the storm here now. Snowboard measurement is due again tonight.
One thing I’ve learned about southern MD - we usually fumble the opening play but we know how to close!
Back to snow here- Always Be Closing. Afternoon measurement increases storm total to 6.1”. Need another 1.3” to make this my 2nd biggest storm since moving here.
Temp is 33- not due for another official measurement until this afternoon but it looks like we’re in auto-refresh mode (i.e. it’s snowing lightly at about the rate its melting/compacting).
First official 6-hour measurement: 2.3"
Temp: 31
LWX now has me mixing with sleet and rain tomorrow before finishing out as snow- we'll see how much (if any) that cuts down on the final total.
Temp has been holding steady at 32. Parts of the roads and the sidewalks are beginning to cave. It’s been a wet snow here and not the fine powder I was expecting (I prefer wet snow anyway!)
Unofficial measurement was 0.8”. I’ll take my first official one at midnight if I’m still awake.
Doesn’t NWS remove or smooth over extreme outliers when calculating averages though? I thought I remember reading they did something to Dec 09 and Feb 03 when calculating 1981-2010 snow averages, for example.
Alright gang, it's time to start rooting for a Beach Blizzard threepeat in the first week of January. Here's all we got to work with so far, courtesy of the GFS:
IAD’s in the red zone but misses the game-winning field goal lol
There’s a chance of rain tomorrow night, but probably the last significant chance to win would be the Thursday/Friday system.
@Always in Zugzwang
I often wonder what it would have been like had the Dec ‘09 storm occurred in a different winter altogether (or if 09/10 had Snowpocalypse but not Snowmageddon). How would our opinions have changed?
Poll update: I removed the February 1994 ice storm (since it only had one vote) as well as the "Other" option- this cleans it up and gets us down to an even top ten once again.