Sparky

oh yeah I saw that.

Getting heavy rain with loud thunder.

I noticed something like that but there was an occasional boom of thunder. But on one specific occasion I saw a bolt of lightning, the actual zigzag bolt not just a flash, opened the door to listen to the thunder but it never came. Also had nickel sized hail around 11:30pm - midnight. Another storm apparently hit around 4am but I slept through it, but I noticed some wind damage around the house, large branches down, lot of blossoms on my Yoshino Cherry ripped off.

Just would like to hear thunder and see some lightning in the wee hours tomorrow.

The "Money Look" seems like a complicated setup from your diagrams, no wonder it is on the rarer side. That aside, many if not most of our big dumpers tend to slow down as they are climbing up the eastern seaboard. What is that attributed to? What prevents them from hauling ass into that large elongated area of low pressure stretched across the northern atlantic?

That was a nice storm even for Baltimore ~ 10 inches and cold.

PD II (25.5" IMBY) was the storm that could have eclipsed the Blizz of '96 (30") in my backyard if it weren't for the changeover to sleet Sunday night for several hours. I figure it would easily have reached 35"+ if all snow. But every other thing about that storm was plain boring compared to '96. There was very little wind, little drifting, and even the snowfakes were small and unimpressive to watch falling. The flakes in '96 were smallish too, but not quite as small. But '96 had some kickass wind on Sunday evening and through the night into Monday morning which gave it a genuine blizzard look and feel. Drifting was about as impressive as I have ever seen. Mind you it is pitch black at night where I live but whenever I flicked on the floodlights on Sunday night to see the action all I could see was a sideways curtain of snow blowing around the house. I could barely see the darkness of the woods that lie about 100 feet in the back. The only other storm that gave me that '96 look and feel was the 2/10/10 blast (27" IMBY) which had much larger dendrites to enjoy and was compressed into a shorter period of time with heavier rates. 2/10/10 was like a blend of '96 winds (though not as intense) and PD1 (Feb 79) snow rates. PD 1 is still the rates king though. That's when I saw 10" in a 3 hour continuous period which I haven't seen beaten since with a total of about 20" in the end.

^^ why guesstimate snowfall to the nearest tenth? Seems silly, just round to nearest inch.

Looks to me like Myrtle Beach is lucking out. Offshore winds all day with the center passing north of them not hugging the coast like it was forecasted.

Oh I agree concerning the the 2010 twins, the first one was a more gentle heavy dumping compared to its late born twin. I actually ended up with one more inch (27) from the 2/9-10 storm than the 2/5. It was a remarkable feat for a miller B.

Surprised 2/5/10 is so low....wish I was in Carroll for Mar 93 but alas I was living in NE Baltimore and only got a foot with sleet/ice....Even though 2/03 was a massive storm out here, I got 25.5", it just leaves a meh feeling in me. I think it was the seemingly tiny snowflakes that made it less exciting and lack of real winds.

Jan 96 is still king for me. Slightly more snow and much stronger winds. I did like the rates better during Jan 16 since it was more concentrated and seemed heavier for the most part. Jan 16 is now the 2nd largest single snow storm in my lifetime...Just by a hair over the 2010 twins.

That was a frigid month though with good snow. Probably one of the better snow cover months for DCA considering they didn't get a massive storm. At the time, Jan 82 reminded me a lot of Jan. 78 only with colder temps. I had snow building on top of snow and that was when I lived in Baltimore not the colder Westminster area.

Jan 96 was just stunning out here from start to finish. I really have never seen anything like it in my entire life. During the final hours of 2/10/10 I was having a feeling of deja vu with Jan 96 only it was not as intense in the wind/drifiting dept. I got 27" from the second Feb. storm, one inch more than 2/5/10, so that was a unbeatable combination for total depth of snow and the one and only time I hired a contractor to remove snow from the driveway and front walkway.

I will say that Feb 79 had the heaviest snow rates I have ever witnessed for a period of time. That time being roughly a 3 hour window between 7-10 am Monday morning. I was in Baltimore for this one. That intense snowfall, about 10 inches in that 3 hour span was combined with very gusty raucous winds. But once that heavy band dissapated, the sun quickly came out and winds dropped to calm. Blizz of 83 - In Baltimore will always hold a special place in my heart. It had an intense period or two of snow too with CG lightning/thunder for about an hour in the early afternoon. Winds were stiff and gusty at times for most of the storm too. It was the single deepest snowfall I had ever witnessed up to that point in time, about 22 inches IMBY, only to be blown out of the water by Jan 96 (in Westminster).