mattie g Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Well, isn't this a surprise....sleet and 39 degrees. About 25 minutes of pure sleet, just enough to whiten the elevated decks and car windshields, now back to a mix of rain and sleet. About 0.03 inches of liquid in gauge. Another miss on the forecast....48 and rain by afternoon. Jeezus...you got screwed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowzone Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Out my back door in Crozet, VA the morning of Dec 20, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSNW3 Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 seems to be back now. tho i shared it then capitalweather reshared it and it's an 8mb file so we might have killed the server Fun stuff. It could have been the loop and the fact that my webcam was getting crazy hits too due to the snow storm up here, but yeah, I reached my bandwidth limit which was 10G, it's now 20G. Sorry for the down time! Snowpocalypse lives on!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJwinter23 Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Great storm. I do remember being a bit pissed at the beginning when the dry air kept eating away at the onset of the system...It took FOREVER for the snow to start that day, it finally began by late afternoon, and I knew we had likely missed out on the historic snowfall chances by that point in New Brunswick, NJ. We were modelled on the huge gradient so I thought it still could go either way day of. 11" later in new brunswick, but 18-22 one county to the south and east. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 4 years!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherman Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 We got the day off - the Friday before winter break - the night before. What a great feeling when I left work that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowfan Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 I returned from a work trip in Portland, OR the night before. I was estatic to get in before the storm hit. Best December storm I can remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 It was ok....I much rather it be 70 in late December than this though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 The one time DC actually got snow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Awesome storm. In the days leading up to it I literally couldn't believe what I was seeing, even though the upper air setup was fantastic. I didn't think a HECS in December was possible until this storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 It was ok....I much rather it be 70 in late December than this though Time to be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scraff Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 I remember having the neighbors over that evening. I was splitting my time between the raging excitement on this board vs. the excitement of 4 bottles of world class wine that we plowed through.. Hurting the next AM, the fresh snow cleared my head in an instant. The kids and I had a blast just playing and shoveling all morning. Good times for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Don't worry. It'll be bumped again next year as we pine for some sort of appreciable snow for the third year running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Don't worry. It'll be bumped again next year as we pine for some sort of appreciable snow for the third year running. H2O is very, very sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtracker Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 cool full-storm conus loop http://www.theplayerstour.net/osnw3/z20091217-20.html I cried just now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 I just look on the bright side. We only have 6 years to go in the 10 year cycle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted December 19, 2013 Author Share Posted December 19, 2013 I cried just now.Yeah this stuff is painful at this point. It might be imaginary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 I cried just now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scuddz Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 y'all need some help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 I only bumped it because its my favorite day, sorry to upset the rest of you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 That was so long ago all my pics are on CD and not flash drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 That was so long ago all my pics are on CD and not flash drive. If you go back all the way to eastern...every post Dave made that had a radar image is blank....poor Dave... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snow. Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 The pivot is perhaps the most beautiful weather image I have ever seen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Here's a nice reference for the upper air pattern when a KU is about to happen: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midatlanticweather Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 I cried just now. Was so beautiful! That radar seems faked based on the way things usually are! LOL! Was loving the Christmas lights caked with snow that winter! Igloos and just fun! NO IDEA that anything more amazing was coming that winter and it did not matter if it did not! That was awesome! Thanks for reminding us all! And now I will eat a gallon of ice cream and sulk as if I miss a long lost friend! SN++ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usedtobe Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 pretty similar...Though 2009 was a bit longer duration event...1983 was about 24 hours and about 5-7 degrees colder in the averages...2009 was about 8 hours longer and mostly in the mid to upper 20s I thought i interesting that the CIPPS analogs identified 1983 as the top analog for the dec 2009 storm and the feb 6th 2010 one. The 2010 storm would have had the dec event as a top analogs but it was not yet int he data base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ltrain Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 I still have a couple pics saved from that event. Good memories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhotoGuy Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Great storm. I just wish I was into photography then and would have taken more pictures and videos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthArlington101 Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I had turned on TWC. The night before I had looked at my Local on the Eights and was stunned to see the 18-24 inch forecast. I knew what was coming, but couldn't grasp it until the night before. I barely got any sleep, and had the radar on. I dosed off, woke up at six, and saw the most impressive blob of white over DC, with no way out of it. Easily the best moment of my weather life, and truly got me interesting in snow, rather then hurricanes. I have a saved photo of that radar still that I'm going to try and dig out so I can remissness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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