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Gotta say, been kinda amusing to see how badly the models have done with P-type in the Trenton area today... 12 hours of sleet, 4.4" total on the ground.

That sounds vaguely familiar but honestly my memory isn't all that clear from back then anymore.

I'd call that an "asos ratio" since that was back when all ASOS was even worse at snow:liquid ratios than it is now... back when all they had was tipping buckets. Now some (including all that measure snow) have weighing gauges.

I've been concentrating on other things the last several years. I still keep close tabs and save materials, I just haven't assembled anything in quite a few years. I suspect that at some point, my focus will shift back towards it... I just can't say when, yet.

Noticed a few of you have seen my YouTube page Thanks for the compliments. With everything going on, I forgot that today is the 25th anniversary of the greatest snowstorm of my childhood. If you'd like to relive it with me, I put all the TV footage I recorded then on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-9RwNUuaYM&list=PLsKEUOGm0GB4tDPkhigFpNa8pdH0BiZyg

With everything going on, I forgot that today is the 25th anniversary of the greatest snowstorm of my childhood. If you'd like to relive it with me, I put all the TV footage I recorded then on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-9RwNUuaYM&list=PLsKEUOGm0GB4tDPkhigFpNa8pdH0BiZyg

Parents in Ewing are at 2.9" of snow for the season. Last time the season started off this poorly was 1993...

Hi all, Been a while since I posted. I know many of you probably hope I'll get around to the winter storm archive again some day, and its possible I will, but since that day is not today, I figured I'd share with you something I have finally gotten around to... putting all my old TV recordings up on YouTube. Its a lot of TWC and some old local news clips too (mostly WPVI at first, later branching to the other stations). So far I'm only thru early 1996, but since that did include the blizzard, I thought it was time to share. I'm linking to the "playlists" page since that's the most organized, but if you want to dig thru every single video, just skip over to the videos page. https://www.youtube.com/user/famartin1/playlists Hope you enjoy!

Only reason there were more posts here is because of this topic. And those few people are way smarter than me.

And there it goes. LOLZ. Yeah there's really a problem with this place if it can't stand competition. I deleted this comment before, but really, I don't care what happens here. I don't spend any time here. I go to Tom's forum. Since I'm in the mid-atlantic now, I go there too, but my time spent in this sub-forum is near zero. Given that situation and the lack of posting in general, it would make sense to merge the forums and just have a Philly area thread for obs/disco/banter. They do that for other regions in NYC and in Mid-Atlantic already.

no its not. i go there mostly.

Unless they are natives of the poles, those are mentally ill people

Late Christmas Eve night felt like June with the 65F dew point and crickets chirping

I think the monthly record high min is probably in play too.

btw those should all be feb 1976.

December DCA 5 in 1982 IAD 5 in 1998 and 1982 BWI 5 in 1998 Winter DCA 7 in 1976 IAD 6 in 1976 BWI 6 in Feb 1976

Looks like it... low was just before midnight http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KDCA/2013/12/22/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA&theprefset=SHOWMETAR&theprefvalue=1

There is input from forecasters. Also of note, that would not be a BWI record, which is an astonishing 62 from 12/22/2013

Its possible... MAV guidance has been doing well for highs but bad for lows, reverse is true for MET. MAV says it is a record, MET says no. Depends on how fast it radiates tonight.

IAD and BWI records today, no dice for DCA.

All tied or broken through 3PM.

Missed at DCA (68) and IAD (71)

It'll get cooler this evening so it probably doesn't matter anyway.

80 at DCA, IAD and BWI today.

Once every 20 years would be fine for me, that's a lot of destruction. But, that still means I'm due