Best Mid-Atlantic winter storm of the last 50 years

[PrinceFrederickWx]

‘96 and Snowmageddon 1 were tied before I bumped this. Now Snowmageddon 1’s taken the lead. 

[WEATHER53]

Without a doubt Snowmaggedon

Most impressive March 1993 Superstorm  

[wxmeddler]

Feb 5-6 for sure at least in the past 25 years. As I type that, I realize that's since 2000 and now I feel very old. Anyway, Feb 5-6 was the cake and Feb 9-10 on top was just extra icing. 

PDII of 2003 is #2. 

Wasn't on the east coast for '96 or '93 unfortunately.

[PrinceFrederickWx]

8 hours ago, WEATHER53 said:

Without a doubt Snowmaggedon

Most impressive March 1993 Superstorm  

There’s probably two ways of looking at it.

1) What’s your favorite in terms of the end result (for me it was Snowmageddon part 1, hands down). This was the question I was asking in the poll.

2) Which one was the most impressive/anomalous in terms of the meteorology? That one’s above my pay grade, but perhaps Dec. 2009 because of the time of year, or March 1993 because of the overall setup? PDI seems insane too from what I’ve read.

[WEATHER53]

2 hours ago, PrinceFrederickWx said:

There’s probably two ways of looking at it.

1) What’s your favorite in terms of the end result (for me it was Snowmageddon part 1, hands down). This was the question I was asking in the poll.

2) Which one was the most impressive/anomalous in terms of the meteorology? That one’s above my pay grade, but perhaps Dec. 2009 because of the time of year, or March 1993 because of the overall setup? PDI seems insane too from what I’ve read.

Yes.  1996 ranks 3rd.  The super lengthy 2016 is 4th and 1979 big drifting 

Blizzard of  66 incredible in Salisbury and have not seen drifting like that since. I was a yoot back then so these  are my DC storms 

[Jebman]

GB16 was the BEST. We got 27 inches of snow and I got to dig snow til I was utterly exhausted. I had to dig Dad a path for the car to the road, then the next door neighbor demanded I dig her car out, then the neighbor next to her said hey Jebman, get off that weather board and dig my car out of this 7 foot drift so I did. Then Bill across the street wanted some help. I said I was too damn tired. He replied I'll tell YOU what WE are tired of: You wishin for big snows like this! Now get out here Jebman and dig out my car! I got a five foot drift over it. I shoveled it. Finally, I figured I'd done my share of the digging out of Dale City from the Great Blizzard of 2016. But no. The Hispanic lady across from us then wanted me to dig her car out. So I wearily dug her out too. Fortunately the snow there had been blown away and it was only a foot deep.

I was actually tired of snow. I stumbled inside the house and Dad teased me saying aren't you gonna dig out the sidewalk too? And the ROAD?

I collapsed on the couch. Boy did Dad kid me the next couple of days, especially when that damn PLOW left a 5 foot BERM right across our driveway entrance!

[AdamHLG]

It feels like in the modern age this list can be locked shut and our days of editing the list to add storms are over.  Now, a "top 10 fails" list.... this is where the new action is. Hope this winter proves me wrong.

[Eskimo Joe]

For me it's a toss up between PD II (Feb 2003) and December 2009. Both events I experienced in Philadelphia and Lancaster County, PA respectively.

• PD II: I was in high school in Philly just got into winter weather tracking and had access to the Internet at my high school library for the last period of the day. The librarian was always gracious enough to let me just quietly geek out on model guidance and NWS web pages. Watching this storm get more and more interesting as we closed on the end of the work week was awesome. 
• December 2009: I was working 2nd into 3rd shift at the IT Help Desk at Millersville University and got paid to do homework and watch both the 18z and 00z model guidance come in on a triple monitor display with a nice Internet connection. I was also was a lead forecaster for our campus weather service at the time, and we had access to a read-only version of NWS chat. It was just pure giddiness to watch the 1.5" QPF line creep north with each model cycle, reach the AFDs from LWX/CTP/PHI and see the inklings of watches or warning start to come up in the chat rooms. I felt like I had access to almost secret data and it was AMAZING! Then came the morning before the event and I knew it was going to puke snow all along Mason-Dixon. It was the end of my undergraduate years and I was supposed to walk in graduation on the 19th, but I knew that wasn't going to happen. So I rushed back to Philly and boom...White Christmas.