80 Degrees to Ripping Snow: March 12th

[peribonca]

23 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

 

Even though the event itself was minor, the insanity of it definitely upgraded this winter in my books to an A- for the Northern Neck

[Bubbler86]

4 minutes ago, peribonca said:

Even though the event itself was minor, the insanity of it definitely upgraded this winter in my books to an A- for the Northern Neck

More rare than the oft referenced biblical snow. 

[Chinook]

I've never seen a 56 degree drop east of the Appalachians

 

[clueless]

I spent the day in Tyson’s and it was wild. Really intense rates. It’s almost all gone now! A+ day. 

[Miss Pixee]

Bright and sunny now. Welp...

[WxUSAF]

Record breaking 24hr temp drop at DCA

 

[Maestrobjwa]

This winter has had it's anomalous fun,  Dang sleet storm in the teens that turned 7" of snow into a glacier that had the impact of 2 feet of the snow...followed by a near-historic run arctic cold that kept it around and required frickin' bulldozers to move some of it...to 80 degrees followed by snow today, lol

I'll give this winter a B- (would've gone higher if we didn't miss two blizzards )

[kgottwald]

I bet DC has never had a day with its high at midnight and its low at 1:30 p.m.!

[Stormchaserchuck1]

20 minutes ago, kgottwald said:

I bet DC has never had a day with its high at midnight and its low at 1:30 p.m.!

That 77F at 2am on March 12 is impressive.. and they were saying 24 hour temp change, that's an impressive 12 hour temp change!

[Stormchaserchuck1]

Some pictures from the snow

[87storms]

1 hour ago, Eskimo Joe said:

 

 

There’s been no shortage of cold air this winter in the east. I’d be surprised if this is the last opp of the season.

[CAPE]

 Sun out. Feels like Spring again with the sun strength/location, although still a chilly 34. Snow melting. Big difference between this little event happening now and a month ago.

[winter_warlock]

 This is obviously a typo by LWX 

 

[JakkelWx]

8 minutes ago, winter_warlock said:

 This is obviously a typo by LWX 

 

 

that will be the temperature on June 1st after 3 weeks of 50s and low 60s/drizzle.

[Fozz]

So BWI reported a mere trace of snow today while the next town over got over an inch?

[CAPE]

1 hour ago, Maestrobjwa said:

This winter has had it's anomalous fun,  Dang sleet storm in the teens that turned 7" of snow into a glacier that had the impact of 2 feet of the snow...followed by a near-historic run arctic cold that kept it around and required frickin' bulldozers to move some of it...to 80 degrees followed by snow today, lol

I'll give this winter a B- (would've gone higher if we didn't miss two blizzards )

One.

[Maestrobjwa]

21 minutes ago, CAPE said:

One.

NC storm didn't have the wind to go with it?

[Nomz]

5 hours ago, yoda said:

@Nomz sorry bud... hope you have water with that salt

I’ll get it out tomorrow morning.

[CAPE]

16 minutes ago, Maestrobjwa said:

NC storm didn't have the wind to go with it?

That isn't even in our region, but no, there wasn't a blizzard warning issued there. The only blizzard you can say was missed in your area is the one in Feb that occurred from DE into SNE. Even though there was blizzard warning issued for my area, the wind/low visibility didn't materialize to meet the criteria, so I missed it too.

[Herb@MAWS]

Imby Columbia:  

3/11+3/12 = 0.90” rainfall 

1.5” snow on 3/12, now 2.6” for March

[Kabraxis]

Quick video of some of the snow we had in Charlottesville around 12:30 this afternoon.  Pretty incredible sight, considering I was wearing sandals, shorts, and a tank top just yesterday!

[WxUSAF]

1 hour ago, Fozz said:

So BWI reported a mere trace of snow today while the next town over got over an inch?

That’s a joke. 

[Maestrobjwa]

54 minutes ago, CAPE said:

That isn't even in our region, but no, there wasn't a blizzard warning issued there. The only blizzard you can say was missed in your area is the one in Feb that occurred from DE into SNE. Even though there was blizzard warning issued for my area, the wind/low visibility didn't materialize to meet the criteria, so I missed it too.

Yeah but wasn't it being modeled much closer earlier in the week? Better timing snd it coulda gotten up here...but I guess I define miss a little differently (like Dec 2018...technically not our region but it was a miss south to NC, and SoVa got some of it, I think).

[MillvilleWx]

26 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

That’s a joke. 

It is a joke. There is literally no way considering I was around that area this afternoon and everything, non-pavement, was covered. 

[Fozz]

46 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

That’s a joke. 

I’m guessing nobody bothered to measure until it was too late and everything had already melted.

It’s a huge abdication of responsibility if that’s the case.

They should revise it to what the nearest site measured - if they could revise the 2009-10 totals down months after the fact, then they can do the same here the other way around.

[Amped]

1 minute ago, Fozz said:

I’m guessing nobody bothered to measure until it was too late and everything had already melted.

It’s a huge abdication of responsibility if that’s the case.

It swept through the area. Everyone east of MT Airy got similar amounts although it my have accumulated more in colder spots.

[SnowenOutThere]

If you go onto COD nexrad and look at the satellite you can see the snow disappear as soon as the cloud deck exits eastward.

[Rhino16]

This actually happened at the right time here. It got dark before any real melting could begin. This makes it about on par with the rest of the events this year for the yard. 

[MillvilleWx]

Have to see if this is confirmed, but the temperature yesterday to having at least 0.1" of snowfall measured at DCA might be the warmest it has ever been for that occurrence. I will double check, but I believe the previous record was a temp in the upper 70s. 

[The Dude]

11 minutes ago, MillvilleWx said:

Have to see if this is confirmed, but the temperature yesterday to having at least 0.1" of snowfall measured at DCA might be the warmest it has ever been for that occurrence. I will double check, but I believe the previous record was a temp in the upper 70s. 

You are correct:

From CWG (https://x.com/capitalweather/status/2032191663586545668)

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Ultra rare flip from record warmth to cold and snow!  Falling to 33 degrees with snow, temperatures in D.C. were at least 53 degrees colder this afternoon compared with the record high of 86 degrees Wednesday. It’s the largest 24-hour dip since Reagan National Airport became the official observation location in 1945. It was probably the biggest drop in D.C. over a day or less since 54 degrees Jan. 28-29, 1934, when it fell from 65 to 11 degrees, from 3 p.m. to 7 a.m., per data from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet. The rare occurrence is made even more so by the snow that fell. For D.C., where 0.1 inch was reported: -A high of at least 77 degrees was observed in the predawn, which is the warmest it has been on the same day as accumulating snow. Before this, the top mark was 67 degrees on Nov. 11, 1995, when 0.2 inches accumulated the same day. -Wednesday’s 86 degrees was also the warmest on the day prior to snow accumulation. Before this round, the warmest it has been the day before accumulation is 78 degrees on March 18, 1934, when 0.1 inches fell the next day. For Dulles International Airport, where 0.6 inches fell: -The 74-degree high in the predawn was the warmest it has been the same day as accumulating snow. The prior record there was 68 degrees and 0.2 inches on March 3, 1972. -It was 86 degrees at Dulles on Wednesday. Before this, the warmest followed by accumulating snow was 77 degrees on March 15, 2007. A total of 1.2 inches of snow fell the next day with a high of 39 degrees.