North Balti Zen

It will be a long LONG time before I feel comfortable in amusement parks again. Germ factories on the rides and restraints and water parks in the normal course of events, that’s gonna feel skeevy now for quite awhile.

I don’t believe it snowed after I bumped this thread on January 21. What an absolute disaster of a winter. We have new entrants on the list.

I, um, all things being equal, given how much food is in various freezers and the quarantine situation many are dealing with, really don’t want severe storms to be a thing this spring. Need power. Etc.

I lived in East Nashville for the 1998 tornado. Sometime if you all want I can recount living through that one. My office bldg. downtown was massively damaged and my home also had significant damage. But check out this overlay in this tweet of the Nashville tornados from 1933, 1998 and the one last night. That's...absolutely uncanny: https://twitter.com/WCM_Krissy/status/1234822047571881984

Coming into view now - 3rd worst or tied for 3rd worst at each airport as it currently stands.

I may do that. As of 2/21/20: BWI: 1.8" DCA: 0.6" IAD: 2.9"

Right now tie for 3rd, and two new third place worst totals on the table.

Here's where we are currently on 2/05/20: BWI: 1.8"/DCA: 0.6"/IAD: 2.9" These are the seasonal futility numbers to keep in mind as this horror show continues: BWI: .7 - '49/'50 1.2 - '72/'73 1.8 - 2011/12 2.3 - 2001/02 3.0 - 2016/2017 DCA .1 - '97/'98 .1 - '72/'73 2.0 - 2011/12 2.2 - '75/'76 2.5 - '30/'31 Dulles: 2.2 - '72/'73 2.6 - 2001/02 3.7 - 2011/12 4.4 - '80/'81 5.9 - '97/'98

If we can get on the board for a top 5 futility record at one of the airports - glasses of warm water in honor of what fell this winter.

Putting out some extra chairs.

Tidying up, doing some dusting. Getting ready, just in case.

Agreed - the 2-4 inch deals have been harder and harder to come by in the ten years I have been in the area - but looking at the longer record , that seems to comport with your memory from the 80s and 90s for this part of the area. Dovetails with @psuhoffman obs/thoughts in another thread wondering if the global climate trends are taking those events away from parts of the area.

That means two of the top five worst snowfall seasons for BWI location have happened in the last decade. It has truly been huge boom or massive bust for BWI/Baltimore City area since I got here in 2009 - probably why I am constantly hunting big storms - the ones on the margins don't do much for this area of late...

I will go with you - that winter had some screwy measurements for having so little have fallen. If that is accurate, the correct top five worst snowfall years for the reporting locations are as follows: Here's where we are currently on 1/22/20: BWI: 1.8"/DCA: 0.6"/IAD: 2.9" These are the seasonal futility numbers to keep in mind as this horror show continues: BWI: .7 - '49/'50 1.2 - '72/'73 1.8 - 2011/12 2.3 - 2001/02 3.0 - 2016/2017 DCA .1 - '97/'98 .1 - '72/'73 2.0 - 2011/12 2.2 - '75/'76 2.5 - '30/'31 Dulles: 2.2 - '72/'73 2.6 - 2001/02 3.7 - 2011/12 4.4 - '80/'81 5.9 - '97/'98

Did that number get adjusted after 3/14/17? There was back and forth at the time about how much fell that day.

2016/17 was BAD (but not quite historic with the March 14, 2017 snow ruining the run at placing each airport on the list except for a 5th place for BWI) - that year ended up BWI 3.0"/DCA 3.4"/IAD 7.3" . Prior to that mid-March "save" in 2017 BWI had 1", DCA had 1.7" and Dulles also had 1.7".

BUMP: Here's where we are currently on 1/21/20: BWI: 1.8"/DCA: 0.6"/IAD: 2.9" These are the seasonal futility numbers to keep in mind as this horror show continues: BWI: .7 - '49/'50 1.2 - '72/'73 1.8 - 2011/12 2.3 - 2001/02 3.0 - 2016/2017 DCA .1 - '97/'98 .1 - '72/'73 2.0 - 2011/12 2.2 - '75/'76 2.5 - '30/'31 Dulles: 2.2 - '72/'73 2.6 - 2001/02 3.7 - 2011/12 4.4 - '80/'81 5.9 - '97/'98

Sarcasm?

If the system is Saturday and the snow within 150 miles - that may be a chase.

This. See under - “all of last winter” during the epic pattern that never arrived.

lol - I was making a similar reference in the banter thread

@Steve25For Balt City neighborhoods in 2013/14 - I was in Hamilton neighborhood that winter and had 46" - poster NW Balt (Pikesville area) had 57. Ravensrule (near poster NW Balt reported 64"). In 2014/15 I moved to where I currently am in North Baltimore and had 30 inches, poster NW Balt had 33. I got those from the season snow totals threads for those years on this forum.

If you go find the seasonal totals thread from this forum for these years and find my last post you will be able to see how Baltimore (not downtown) made out. They were good years.

Just found the old thread - according to my notes I had .5 of ice from first part of storm and did make it to 5 inches on second part so it did verify the warning.

I would have to go back and check my notes from the annual thread but my immediate recall is that one also underperformed here inside the 695 beltway.