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All anyone remembers about 82-83 is the general mildness interrupted by the 2/11 storm - everyone has forgotten the 6-12 inches on December 12 (after a truly tropical first few days of the month), the additional inch a week later and the 4 inches on 2/6.
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I have two notifications that people replied to my posts in the Mid-Long Range discussion thread in Mid-Atlantic. Neither reply is actually visible in the thread. Did the moderator remove them for some reason?
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National and Dulles couldn't even manage two consecutive sub-freezing high temperatures. Busted the forecast by 6 or 7 degrees IIRC. Kind of pathetic if that's all we're gonna get.
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IAD's all-time low of -18 on January 22, 1984 was a result of perfect radiation conditions: calm wind, snow cover, no clouds. DCA only dropped to 3. The afternoon highs reached the mid-twenties.
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Dewpoints really falling off a cliff
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Interesting that IAD obs never reported snow, just rain, drizzle and mist.
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First snow of the season in Tysons
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Front passing through Tysons Corner just now. Sudden burst of sleet.
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That was the year when all the TV mets promised a white Christmas. December 24 was 58 degrees, but it was supposed to start raining in the evening and then switch to snow, piling up 2 to 4 inches. But whatever primitive Neanderthal forecast models they were using back then were less accurate than flipping a coin. The cold air never arrived and we got zero snow. Bitter disappointment!!
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Gordon Barnes! That takes me back! He'd give his winter predictions in November, usually calling for a cold, snowy pattern, and he'd *always* say we were going to get a white Christmas. I don't know how he came up with that stuff, probably pulled out of his ass. After three or four years of disappointments, I got pretty annoyed at him for continually raising false hopes.
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This weather reminds me of the then-record-warm December of 1984, which had a considerable number of mild, foggy nights.
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Temps rising with the wind picking up - a minor Chinook effect?
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And I certainly hope that this is the latest in the year that the DC area will ever see 70-degree dewpoints.
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A patch of blue sky in Merrifield about 15 minutes ago.
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Despite the predicted upper 50s lows, temperatures have stubbornly refused to drop at all since sunset. Even Dulles has stayed in the low sixties overnight.
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IAD's dewpoint hit 70.
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Unforecast showers making their way through the DC area.
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Tiny glimpses of blue sky, looking north from Tysons Corner
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So long to the warm, dry week we were supposed to get!
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Hold up. Yesterday, the coming week was supposed to be in the 70s from start to finish, dry and sunny. Now, all of a sudden, I see 60s, chances for showers and (at least) partly sunny?? WTAF?
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Persistent S wind preventing freeze even at IAD. Never dropped below 39 at DCA.
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Clouds and light S wind prevented frost. I really want a hard freeze even in the heat islands to get rid of the mosquitoes until spring.
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I thought it was supposed to be clearing up by now. Still socked in with drizzle. Yesterday Tysons/Vienna actually had no rain except brief sprinkles now and then, and I thought it was almost over. Rain bands moving from east to west look ugly and unnatural.
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From the radar it looks like Savannah has escaped much impact. Good luck for them!
