WVclimo

Governor Justice enlisted the National Guard to help with the backlog of unemployment claims. At that point they were 90,000 cases behind. I read that they are now able to process 6,000 a day, so looking like two weeks just to clear the backlog before new claims which are steadily filling in also.

Just caught up on this thread and am struck by how different things are here in WV from the rest of the subforum. We have had 100 cases so far in Berkeley County. But no more than 10% of people at most are wearing masks in public. I see people congregating with no regard to keeping 6' between them. Still smoking cigarettes near the entrances of stores. They finally shut down the local ice cream stand in the past week after many complaints on social media about 30-50 people in lines without any separation from each other at peak hours. But the rest of the stores like WalMart, Lowe's etc are packed. None of the employees at any of the stores are wearing masks or gloves either. I still go to work every day as I always have. My kids have been off from school though since mid-March and twice they have had three weeks worth of assignments uploaded on Dojo that they need to complete and upload to Schoology. But neither my junior in high school or my 5th grader have had any instruction from their teachers. My fifth graders' teacher has scheduled two 15-minute sessions on Zoom in six weeks, both times she read aloud to the kids while wearing pajamas. My high schooler can't even get her teachers to respond to questions. At all. officially our schools are only closed through this coming Monday. The governor hasn't made any pronouncements for beyond 4/20. A close friend was laid off and applied for WV unemployment benefits on March 23. Still hasn't had her claim processed more than three weeks later. Seeing all you folks staying home and all the rules Governor Hogan has put in place is a stark contrast to the day-to-day here in Wild, Wonderful..

Getting rocked here with high wind and torrential rain.

Booming thunder, frequent lightning and wind gusts above 40 mph with a line of thunderstorms that just moved through here.

Monthly mean temperature departures so far this year at MRB: Jan +6.1 Feb +6.1 Mar +6.2

Nice thundershower going on here this morning. Frequent lightning. No wind though.

Another dry day. 12% RH is about as low as it gets in this part of the country. High of 61 after a morning low of 17.

Low temp was 10 here this morning. Coldest reading of the winter.

A few stray flurries blowing around this morning here. 30°

Picked up 0.2” of snow overnight. Flurries now at 35 degrees.

Barometer at 29.03" and crashing here this morning. Been quite a while since I have seen a reading that low.

After yesterday's record high at MRB, today's high fell 2° short of another record. Should still break the record for the highest minimum for the date. Previous record warm low was 41 from 1952. So far, the low for today is 59! Forecast is for 46 by midnight.

Record high of 68 at Martinsburg today bested the 65 from 1991. 10 years ago at this time it was a different story.

Sleeting here at 39 degrees.

A persistent light rain is keeping temperatures down here. Currently 36°. Forecast high for this afternoon is 43.

Has 1000-500 mb thicknesses sub 534 here at 18Z with rain falling.

Another one moves in a day later, lol.

1.36” of rain overnight. Wettest 24-hour total here since July 8.

My current location was 30”+ in ‘96. It was still a great storm where I was, given all the drifting. But from DCA northeast through central PG County and east toward the Bay there was a stripe of sub 20” totals. I drove to northern NJ the Thursday after the storm and was amazed at the snow depths, especially from the Susquehanna River north.

Yep. I was at about 300’ asl inside the Beltway a mile or so from the University of Maryland. It sleeted much of Sunday afternoon and evening in my yard before it flipped back to wind-whipped snow late at night.

I was living in College Park at the time and that band set up N/S over central MD and just kept cranking for hours. Picked up about 6” from it, which made up for some “disappointment” that the weekend event had only amounted to 19” with all the sleet that mixed in.

OK, cool. Guess I should read more carefully when I am supposed to be working, lol.

Holy smoke ! Did the city really get screwed that badly last winter ? I see BWI reported 18.3". I had 37" here which might be the biggest discrepancy I can recall between here and Baltimore, if your total was really that low.

Haven't had a very bad snowfall season here in a while. Hoping this year isn't the start of one of those streaks of 3-4 meager seasons in a row, like we get in the mid-Atlantic periodically. Don't like seeing a Nina showing up in the long-range progs for next winter. Last 10 winters before this one in my yard: 09-10: 82.9" 10-11: 20.3" 11-12: 8.4" 12-13: 23.4" 13-14: 52.4" 14-15: 36.7" 15-16: 40.8" 16-17: 13.3” 17-18: 22.7" 18-19: 37.0"

January so far: DCA +8.0 BWI +8.9 IAD + 7.7