kgottwald

I actually wish it would warm up. I'm getting tired of most of the sidewalks in commercial areas being permanently blocked. And the pedestrian trail from the Vienna Woods neighborhood to the Metro station is still a sheet of ice which requires slow careful navigation to avoid falling. VDOT or whoever is supposed to maintain this trail obviously doesn't give one-tenth of a shit about pedestrians. I'd like a week of sunshine and 60-degree temps, staying above freezing at night. Or, failing that, an inch of rain at 50 degrees.

Dulles stuck at 14. Still no mention of the blown low temp predictions in the AFD. But the "no longer an obvious coldest night" bit has been copied and pasted into every AFD for *days on end*. That's just plain lazy.

Three days of sunshine and not even the roofs of the houses across the street have lost their snowcover. Normally those are the first places to melt off, almost always the day after the snow.

I wish the WaPo would put Martin Weil on a different beat. I really, really dislike his "semi-cutesy" writing style.

LWX AFD has not a word about the busted low temp forecast. The AFDs in general have gotten a lot more boring and cookie-cutter since I first started following them in 1993.

I'm pretty sure it was January 19, 1994, with the monster ice storm and even DCA dropping to -4. BWI, DCA and IAD all had *highs* below 10!!

I hate sleet. It's going to take the damn Incredible Hulk to shovel this crap.

The short-range models completely missed this little low or whatever it is.

There's some stuff on radar to the NW. Virga, doubtless.

Been overcast since 9:15 in Fairfax City despite a mostly sunny forecast. I note the AFDs have a new format with "keypoints" rather than being organized strictly chronologically. Wonder why they decided to screw around with it.

I bet my boots that the December 30, 2000 storm was like that. NWS promised (IIRC) 3 to 6 inches inside the Beltway - what we got was *clear skies!* Epic level model fail.

Looked like it was going to be a sunny day for the first time in forever, but in the last ten minutes, whoops! Here come the clouds, rolling in as always . . . Blah!

We had a couple of one-inch events, then a 4-inch storm two days before the inauguration, the snow cover from which made possible DCA's -4 low. Then a 2-inch storm to end the month, which turned out to be the last snow for the season (until a half inch in April!!) I remember Bob Ryan and Gordon Barnes were hyping up an event for February 6th that just turned into a light icing and some drizzle.

I remember the March 8, 1984 thundersnow. My house got those rates, as did Dulles.

I don't own a vehicle. I walk or use public transit everywhere. That much snow would pretty much guarantee I would eventually be hit by a car as I try to navigate around the drifts.