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11/15/18: 6.0

Dropped back to 28.

Snow fighting back. Temp up to 30. Solid 6 inches.

Heavy band moving in. Over 5 inches. 28

Yes. Horrible out. A plowable event. This storm is much better than the storm on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving in 2014. 4 inches or so here now.

The first of hopefully many events.

Heaviest of the day. Approaching 2 inch an hour rates.

This really is one heck of an event for so early in season. It's like a mid-winter storm.

Smaller flakes and visibility way down. Temp holding at 27.

Wow. Were not even at an inch yet. Precip took forever to get going here.

Going to be close call for us. We may stay snow especially with the heavier bursts through 2 p.m. or so

Heavy snow. 27

BWI: 37.4 DCA: 24.5 IAD: 41.1 RIC: 20.0 Tiebreaker - SBY: 18.7

I was going to Owings Mills elementary at the time. Lol. I think that was the first year Owings Mills high was open. I remember that morning very well waiting at the bus stop with snow on the ground.

Jan. 1996 Feb. 9/10 2010 Jan. 2016 Feb. 2003 Feb. 1983 Feb. 5/6 2010

The storm was much better for you guys. I lived about a mile north of the beltway back then and knowing how close we were to an all snow event producing over 2 ft. has always left a bad taste with me about that storm. I got 12 inches and then an abrupt switch to wind driven sleet for 6 hours straight hours before it ended as a couple oh hours of snow. Ended up with 16-18 inches. Always was very disappointed there wasn't much on the back end with the storm. Roads were awful for several days afterward with the unseasonable cold that hung around.

2/9/10-2/10/10 has to be number 1 specifically for the Manchester area. 32 inches and that is a low estimate, may have easily been 3ft. plus. The initial thump maxed out here. We had a foot on the ground by 12 midnight. picked up 8 of those 12 in a 3 hour period. After the 3 hour lull from 2a.m.-5a.m. things got cranking fast. 2 inch an hour rates with temps falling to around 18-20 and rapidly increasing winds. We had true whiteout condition at least a half dozen times and I mean true whiteout conditions. I couldn't even see my neighbors house on several hundred feet away. The ratios were insane for a HECS. Very low liquid content. Heavy bands stayed over us all day. Never heard any thunder but others in the area did. Heavy bands would rotate through and as they did skies would get very dark as they approached, almost thunderstorm in nature. After the bands moved through skies would temporarily would brighten before the next one rolled in. As the storm winded down we would get these narrow bands theta dropped in from PA and would enhance with the elevation here. They were short induration but very intense. This went on for several hours. The last one of these bands came through at 10:30p.m. If you take the duration ( 32 hours ) plus the wind, temperatures and total accumulation I feel this has to be number 1 here. Also can't forget to mention the 18 inches that were on the ground at the start from the storm 3 days earlier. Of course the worst of this storm was much more localized than our recent blizzard. I do think for overall for this region the recent blizzard probably would be number 1. To see such a large area experiencing extremely high totals was truly remarkable.

I think BWI also came a few tenths of an inch short on the 2/10/2010 measurement.

Jan. 82 was my favorite winter month as kid and is when my winter addiction began. I always loved snow up to that point but the combination of cold and snow that was seen during that month really got me hooked. Even though I was only 9 I can remember very clearly lot of details during that winter.

2/5/10 overall was not very windy but there was about an 8 hour period from midnight to 8am where it picked upped pretty good. Some of my front lawn was bare by early Saturday morning.

Nice change of pace post. A mix of optimism and humor.

Overall for the entire Mid-Atlantic I would go 1/96. As for the area I live in now I would go 2/9-10/2010 I think 2/83 should be given more consideration. It wasn't a long duration event like most of the others which meant it was sustained 2 inch per hour rates for many consecutive hours. Lightning and thunder with some areas reporting 3-4 inch per hour rates. Most of the region received 2 feet of snow in roughly 14-16 hour period.

The more I look back on this storm the more I appreciate it. Definitely overshadowed by what happened in February that year or else it would probably be remembered differently. This storm had everything going for it. Great track with no mixing concerns and perfect temps. Also long duration with some winds. Can't ask for much more.

I think Long Island got blasted.

Will we ever see anything remotely close.