Yes this is not the top but it’s number 4,5,6 or something. I did not break my records for 1,3,6 hour drop rate but with 54 at midnight I’m going to break my 1983 record of 40 degrees in 12 hours.
14.5 at 6:30 and definite slick spots driving around here Need to be alert to this is not a typical night and if you see shiny you are not seeing things, it’s ice
We chatted 83 earlier, I was driving from DC to Salisbury. I stood in shade 10 feet away from choptank and faced the wind and thought “this is what it’s like to die “
I was driving on the old Choptank River bridge around noon Christmas Day and it was about 20 with winds right up the river, most whitecaps I’ve ever seen on it, and as winds cranked to 50 the spray starting freezing on the road deck and they closed it and super salted it and reopened. I never saw that before or after.
And MN might not some of those be cold mornings but a much milder afternoon as opposed to arctic blast plummeting the high?
I wonder if NWS has top 10 temperature drops for 1,3,6,12,24 hours.
I wish I had posted my notes from Tuesday that DC area would go 55-60 before frontal and Norfolk 70.
I’m up to 52 after 46/47 most if afternoon
Bob Ryan used to have in his Almanac a weather event for every day. One was “chickens froze in their tracks” and might we have that here???????
It will be a Great Obs thread posting the hourly drops.
Lot of snickering when I stated 70mph wind gusts would accompany this rare situation.
Unless I read it wrong I saw a report from Wyoming and Colorado of 35 degree temp drops in one hour . I don’t think we can do that but I do think we can do 18-20 degree drop in 60 minutes
Some of us who have been posting for 20 years closely remember our most special winter events. Get ready to put this one in your records to cherish forever
I’m going to pull out my old weather diary. Started it as a 13 year old during Blizzard of 66 in Salisbury. And stoped in 2012. Gotta be done good details on a few others.
This one may actually be beyond Mega Front.
Often our Arctic fronts have big dry high pressure pushing them but this is strong low wrapping around Lakes area. Not as dry.
The results of these rare blast throughs are hard to predict and wild to watch