PrinceFrederickWx

I agree some of it is lurkers or passerby who voted last year and haven't returned; however, both 96 & 2010 have picked up a lot of new votes since the new storm too. I would think a large part of VA would still vote for '96? I think snowmageddon 1 was the biggest for eastern shore as well as southern MD but I wasn't down here so I don't know.

This is something I keep thinking about- I'd love to know what's driving this but I have no idea (Climate change? Small sample size? Some other cycle we're not aware of?). The feast or famine cycle was said to be the new normal but then we had two oldschool style winters in 13/14 & 14/15 which we really haven't seen since the 80's. It seems statistically significant- before 1979 we went between 20-37 years without a HECS on average.

I'd still put the two Snowmageddons at the top of my list, but its an apples to oranges comparison since I was living in Glen Burnie. If I was up there for 2016, maybe I'd have it at #1, I don't know.

It won't get talked about in the main thread cause it doesn't involve DC/NoVa but it looks like the GFS keeps showing all of us getting clipped Wed or Thurs? LWX has a 30% chance of snow both Thursday and Thursday night for my area.

I have important work training where I have to be in the office and can't work from home on the following dates: Jan 26-28 Feb 23-25 So I said weeks ago that you can mark those dates down as gauranteed snow days!

12/2009 was originally 21" but later lowered to 18" 2/5-6/2010 had two measurements: a 28.8" taken every hour and a 24.8" taken once at the end. There were no 6 hour measurements. 25.0" was a derived amount that was supposed to account for compaction. 1/30/10 was also adjusted down. Supposedly all the storms were overmeasured at BWI between 1998 and 2/5-6/2010, but none of the other ones were adjusted down. I'm still trying to figure out if the 29.2" BWI got in this storm has been adjusted down or not- there's a discrepancy between two pages on LWX's website.

We're living in the era of HECS for sure. I expect the next one in 2023 (give or take a year)... or maybe late February. :-)

Not only was this storm the biggest one for BWI (29.2") but it was also the snowiest single day yesterday (25.5"), beating the previous record of 23.3" on January 28, 1922. One thing that makes me kinda sad- the Dec. 2009 storm has now been knocked off the top ten list.

Whew! It worked. Cool, now you can all change your votes.

Did anyone in Calvert and St Mary's here measure? Trying to get an idea of how accurate mine is- there's a 19" report from Dowell and a 14" from North Beach (though that was earlier in the day)

Its still been snowing lightly here. Can see the full moon through the clouds

I'm measuring about 15.5". Great storm over here! I feel bad for you guys on the lower shore- hopefully you got some good snow to close it out.

I actually would like to modify this poll and add the new storm in but it seems like if you add an option it deletes the whole poll? (I played around with a previous poll once and that's what happened). Maybe a mod or admin can edit it for me or tell me if there's a way to do it? idk

The last few hours have been the most intense of the storm here. Heavy snow!

I couldn't sleep either. I expected wind to keep me up- instead it was sleet! My wife and son both woke up from it too.

Measured 9.5" this morning on the snow board. Taking various measurements around my property to compare, around 9.5" was the most common, with ranges between 9.0" and 11.5". A lot of drifting obviously, so I don't know how accurate it is. I think that long period of sleet in the middle of the night really cut down on accumulations here. But its snowing hard now so we'll see how much we'll make up. Edit: Also the high wind warning didn't even come close to verifying IMBY.

Temp up to 28. Heavy sleet and Getting windier. I'm heading off to bed. Hopefully when I wake up were back to snow and not a repeat of Feb. 2014.

Heavy sleet

Yep I'm mixing with sleet now too.

Just measured 6.5" on the snow board. There's a lot of blowing snow now so I measured in several grassy spots to compare- most were between 6.5 & 7.0. It is brutal outside! Winds picking up. I'm a little worried cause SOMDWeather said in the main thread that he switched over to sleet. My temp has gone up from 25 to 27 over the last few hours.

Nice to see someone from King George in here- always wished we had more posters from that area.

Did it come from the east? Cause we just got destroyed here lol

Sounds like the Euro was right for you guys on the eastern shore? Glad to hear you're all getting in it. Its rippin' & tearin' outside lol

26, heavy snow and winds are picking up. I was just standing out in it, taking it all in. Amazing.

Just took my first official snowboard measurement - 3.8"