George BM

Currently 70/57 at KIAD.

@losetoa6 Record Highs for January 11th: DCA: 75F / 1975 BWI: 73F / 1975 And in case you're curious... IAD: 71F / 1975

I love the farmer just guarding his turf. Farmer: *Points pitch-fork at the tornado* "FREEZE you diseased rhinoceros pizzle!!"

A category 5 hurricane up the Potomac and dead over my house?! Paging @Bob Chill. Oh yeah!! Uh huh!! Oh yeah!! Uh huh!! Oh yeah!!

Over how many minutes did you receive that inch?

The BEST time ... It should be back shortly. ETA: Around 12:00pm cst according to them via twitter.

Flurries started 5 minutes ago in Herndon, VA.

IYBY?! Are any pigs flying yet? In all seriousness congrats. Currently 40/23 at IAD at 10:57am est on Tuesday, January 7th, 2020.

Good point. Meanwhile 31/22 at IAD as of 8:27am est on Tuesday January 7th (not 8th!), 2020.

What is the estimated diameter of the flakes IYBY you'd say?

Let me see... I'd be very happy with a quick hitting 20" storm with extreme snowfall rates with lightning/thunder. I'd also be very happy to have 10 snow squalls that quickly drop 2" each within a half-hour with lightning/thunder and strong gusty winds. Even better would be a Quebec polar vortex/ strongly +PNA pattern bringing 4 particularly intense snow squalls that each drop 5" in a very short amount of time... with lightning/thunder and severe wind gusts.

Over 3"/hr liquid equivalent rates meaning snowfall rates of as much as 30"+/hr?! Me thinks this will have RDMs glacier experience beat bigly! I'm so far in that I'm actually now trapped inside and don't even know whether I can get back out. It's strange and dark in here with faint clouds of what look like memories or hypothetical fantasies of Armaggeddon-like storms crushing my neighborhood? Should I call 911? Will they even be able to reach me here? I've heard of a strange phenomenon that can sometimes occur when snowfall rates get very heavy. People say that the sky will flash (kind of like a camera flash) with either the color white, pink or sometimes even blue. They will then hear a crashing noise usually a couple seconds later... but in some cases within that second and loud. I hear of this happening quite a bit with lake-effect snow squalls from the Great Lakes. I've never experienced this phenomenon in person but it certainly sounds cool and unique. What exactly do you call this phenomenon and do we at least have the slightest chance ( at least a 1 in 100 chance) of seeing this phenomenon occur somewhere within this region if we can get strong enough lift tomorrow?

Funny... I had a similar conversation with my friend last night about Tuesday.

Lots of talk about the rainfall rates from this event... where a watched the rain-curtain miss me to my east by about a mile or so. How did the rainfall rates compare with the rates you see during normal summer thunderstorms? What was the visibility like during the heaviest part of the storm?

Another year is over and I'm Curious George. What weather event stood out for you personally in the past year? For me it is a little bit harder this year... but I'll go with a thunderstorm that hit my house on August 20th. There was torrential rain, 40+ mph wind gusts and nickel to perhaps quarter sized hail. The storm lasted a relatively long time for me (~20 minutes). A few leaves were down from the hail and a tree fell on a light-pole snapping it in half about half a mile down the street from my house. Yeah not very exciting IMBY this year... The January snowstorm was also okay though... As was the late February wind event.

How in the flippity flop-a-dippery dop did you miss out on PDII and all the other warning-level snows that happened that winter?! Did you get fringed to the underworld or something?

Happy New Decade WxWeenies.

2020ing.

Did either you or @losetoa6 experience any thunder snow from the 92 bomb?

@psuhoffman I don't have anything to add but thank you so much for the time and effort put into this!

What's the site that you get data to customize time periods of these plots from? May I have a link to it please? - TIA

You know I always have wondered what the most anomalous weather event in the last say 50,000 or 100,000 years was in the region, the US, and in the world. Was there a 2+ foot blizzard in Miami... in May? A 200 mph category 5 hurricane... striking Newfoundland? Has it snowed... at sea-level in Jamaica? I wish there was an easy way to figure these things out.