I don’t think it’s all sorted out yet but I think tiresome is definitely the summation of the moment. Even in what should be an excellent pattern regime it seems like we’re fighting uphill to get anything meaningful. Years of fighting uphill no matter the upper level depiction.
I do think we can get some confluence changes in the coming days with the 6/7 deal to bring a light event back on the table but again, fighting uphill.
Congrats DCA
That said, we’re not going to bat 1.000 in this pattern, we just have to hope for as many swings as possible and not whiff on the 50mph fastball in the center of the zone that is the 10-12th period.
I have to say it is pretty disheartening to see that sw get annihilated coming out of the Midwest. Downright nauseating. Maybe it gives a chance for a coastal to take over though and salvage something.
I was just going to say…you want something super low this far north you need it to be tropical or something becoming hybrid/post-tropical like Fiona.
That 2018 blizzard was a thermonuclear winter bomb though with a 53mb drop in under 24 hours. I chased it in Ocean City, MD and it was epic.
Yeah we are nitpicking @dendrite and I think the March aspect for ‘93 adds to its greatness as a storm, but I think the extent and intensity of the cold combined with the snows in the east make 1899 stand out as a broader scale event.
Great Blizzard/Cold Snap of 1899. I think it’s the greatest winter wx event in CONUS history.
https://www.weather.gov/media/bro/research/pdf/Great_Arctic_Outbreak_1899.pdf
Kind of an aside but I was walking along the CT river today and I think I see the makings of an ice jam? The bridge was literally the dividing line between flowing water and ice. Doubt this all melts before the cold returns. I don’t recall many ice jams this far south, especially in recent years.