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    January 12-14, 2019 Storm Threat

    in Mid Atlantic

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    1 minute ago, psuhoffman said:

    Icon is back to the idea of holding energy back and developing a second wave but no way in this flow that has a shot. We need one consolidated ejection of energy to overcome the flow. 

    The NS isn't neatly as suppressive this time as December but in December the system came out really amplified and held together to the coast. It got forced due east but it was well organized. This time it's ejecting in pieces and is a weak strung out mess.  (If the icon and nam are right)  That won't cut it. 

    Lets see what the big boys have to say before getting worried. 

    Staying strong!

    Feb 5-6 2010 - Snowmageddon

    in Mid Atlantic

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    I'm just curious about how you decided on these rankings, because I also am able to rank all of these storms in a western suburb of DC. Was 2/5-6/10 and 1/96 being ranked higher than 1/16 partly because of what happened after the storm's end? 

     

    I've said elsewhere that I can't separate the second 2/10 storm from the first one in terms of how the experience went overall, and the same goes with the whole 1/6/96 to 1/12/96 period. So of course those would be better winter weather weeks than the week of 1/16. But if I had to pick which one was the best in isolation, every indicator for 1/16 (total snow, winds, drifts) was just a bit better than 1/96. 2/5-6/10 still had the greatest impact of any storm I've lived through because of the 30-hr power outage in addition to being stuck.  

     

    Feb 5-6 2010 -- Most snow ever received from one storm 30", power out 30 hours, the cold and then follow up storm that dropped another foot of snow on top of the 30" from few days later.

    January 1996 -- 28" of snow and what made this storm special was the wind on Sunday creating 6-9' drifts. It was 8 days after the storm before our street was plowed and not even 4WD vehicles were able to get in or out of neighbor.

    January 2016 -- 25" of snow, but drifts were less, 3-5', than the 1996 blizzard here. One lane of our road was plowed by Monday morning and then the melt come on much faster than either storm above.

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