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1917 was tied for 2nd coldest at BWI- 1989 was #1 by a pretty large margin. The most frustrating Decembers were 2011 and 2012, which finished 16th and 11th, respectively. I hope we can torch our way to #1 but we'd have to put up a +9.0 departure to get hottest December ever (1931) so that's gonna be very hard.

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I got Sunday circled for potential record high and high minimum breaking at BWI.

We're getting a storm worthy of this list this winter. I make forecasts you can trust. Poll for "best winter period ever" will be coming towards the end of the season, I'm holding off cause I know some week this February will be making that list too.

Awful... BWI is down to 11th after yesterday, and today is probably going to screw us even more.

We're still at +4.3 with (I think) three good +departure days coming up... maybe we can still get this after all.

Yeah, we lose so many that way with 11:59pm lows, its frustrating. Same way when midnight highs ruin a record lowest max.

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.

If BWI would finish with the current +6 departure, that would be 3rd hottest Nov. I'd say a top 10 hottest Nov. would be a good shot if it weren't for the extended forecast- that's probably going to knock it down a lot.

Yes we can- 80 for the high officially. If the 63 low holds tonight that's an average of 71.5- I think the hottest average day in Nov was 11/2/1971 (83H, 68L, 76 avg)

79 at BWI! Can we get 80?

BWI has tied the record highest min for the day (63) if we can hold it until midnight.

Yeah, there's only been six record 80+ highs at BWI in Nov. (none in Dec.), and the last one is 11/8/1975. Monthly record high was 86 on 11/1/1950 so that's not happening either. But it would be neat if we could get another 80+ record.

Forecast is for 79 now so it seems likely.

Record high watch for Friday at BWI? Forecasted high is 74, record is 77.

April 6-7 is the only storm that winter on the NESIS list that I see. I think that's the latest date for a KU on there: http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/images/snow/nesis/19820406-19820407-3.35.jpg BWI and DCA got a T for 4/6 and 4/9 but IAD had 2.6" on 4/9, which I think may be the storm you're referring too in the part I bolded above.

The big day for the airports was 1/17, which I think may have been one of the coldest average days in the region. DCA: High 10, Low -5 BWI: High 11, Low -7 (tied for coldest low ever) IAD: High 8, Low -7 All three airports had snowcover from the Air Florida storm until the end of the month- there were a bunch of days with minor accumulating snows after that storm. It was also BWI's 7th coldest month ever. All three airports put up double digit monthly snow totals too. Seems really impressive- wish I had been alive to see it!

Couple other ones I found that are a mix of multiple snow events and cold. Especially January 1982- surprised that one doesn't get talked about more often around here. Jan. 5-25, 1977 Jan. 10-27, 1982 Feb. 6-13, 1983 Jan. 10-23, 1984 Jan. 17-31, 1985 Dec. 8-27, 1989 I might actually do a poll of "best winter period" a few months from now. If anyone has any ideas, reply or PM me.

alwaysready126 picked "Other" ...so what was your favorite? Anyone who picks "Other" should leave a comment cause then I start to wonder if I forgot something good.

Are ice storms more of a neutral/ La Nina thing in this region or no?

Was browsing through this thread again and I forgot this part- long story short, my dad and I used to have snowmobiles stored at my grandparents house in PA, but we happened to have them temporarily stored here in Feb. 2003. During PDII we got them out and rode them around the area in the middle of the storm. Our next door neighbor (who was a cop) had never rode on one before- he rode around with us for awhile, then asked us if he could borrow it for his patrol since no one could get on the roads, so we loaned it to him. After the storm ended we were doing laps around the house and made it into a track- those were some tight corners since the yard was only about 1/4 acre! Probably not funny to anyone reading this, but it was funny if you were there. I miss PDII- that was my favorite storm after the two snowmageddons.

My agency still has to telework from home even when the gov't is closed so I don't get any snow days, unless I take leave (which I undoubtedly will if we get a HECS!)I didn't lose power in any of the ice storms but many did. And we were stuck inside for a week. I can't really root for ice storms or even tropical storms anymore- just too destructive for me. But I still root for cold records and snow (I'm still enough of a masochist to root for heat records though).

Most of these storms (1979, 1983, 2003, 2010) happened in early/mid February during peak climo, so I think we'll see another one of those in our lifetime (though probably not back-to-back like Feb. 2010). '93, '96 and Dec. '09 were so unusual in terms of time of year and/or total coverage that I'm not sure we'll ever see something like that again in our lifetimes- could be like 1 in 200 year events or something (I'm just making that number up). I doubt we ever see ice storms like '94 again in our lifetime either.

Part 2 was basically a BWI to Philly bull's eye. Each one of those four storms moved the bull's eye a little further north and east I think- for instance, 1/30 was RIC's biggest storm but they got very little in Feb. Philly got almost nothing from 1/30 bit got hit hard in both snowmageddons, etc. IMBY at the time (Glen Burnie) I remember it started off slow on the 9th, then it stopped that night, then the next day the winds picked up and it snowed like crazy. That afternoon was amazing- I almost voted part 2 over part 1 just for that. Every time I watch those videos I can't believe that actually happened. None of the 2010 storms were very cold, except 1/30. If you prefer brutal cold with your HECS there's better choices lol

I don't know- I think you'd probably get an even split for the lead between 2010 & 1996 (just like in this poll) with maybe a handful picking 1979, 1987 or 2003. Certainly DC/Baltimore metro would pick 2010 hands down, but other areas probably wouldn't (especially out west)