Ian Posted January 26, 2012 Author Share Posted January 26, 2012 If it wasn't for that storm, the only sizeable difference from last winter and this winter is a cold dec-jan. we had a lot more threats it seemed. tho maybe it's better not to have that if they don't come to pass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 If we could have gotten the Jan 11 storm to produce and the Feb storm to do the same, I think it would have been a great winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted January 26, 2012 Author Share Posted January 26, 2012 Looks like I punted and canceled the storm at least 10 times. it's always hard to believe in snow around here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deck Pic Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 If it wasn't for that storm, the only sizeable difference from last winter and this winter is a cold dec-jan. last winter was "epic" compared to this one...we were constantly getting snow....it was just so frustrating missing out on stuff while 40N was getting killed....Most of us had 10-11 accumulating events...but most were small.....I would say we had 3 good events that were as good or better than anything this winter so far....12/16, 1/12, and 1/26.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Yea, I agree with you guys. My post was more of a comparison of actual #'s. We did have more events up to this point but snowfall was still pretty light and below climo. Except for Phin and peeps up in N and NE MD. Miller B's are always more kind up that way. Last year was worse on the nerves imo. Especially the boxing day storm. That one really stung. In the back of my mind I was like "miller b's always suck....miller b's always suck" but after 09-10 it was easy to get blinded into thinking "DC is the new snow capital of the EC so the models have to be right.". All the excitement of christmas with family and then a big snowstorm.....and then poof. It was a stinger. Take away the psu storm and the season was pretty bad. Cold and dry for the most part. We could pull off a strong ull this year. No reason to think we can't. Let's hope one of our upcoming pna spikes throws us a bone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 This storm definitely saved last winter, at least for those who got hammered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gymengineer Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Yea, I agree with you guys. My post was more of a comparison of actual #'s. We did have more events up to this point but snowfall was still pretty light and below climo. Except for Phin and peeps up in N and NE MD. Miller B's are always more kind up that way. Last year was worse on the nerves imo. Especially the boxing day storm. That one really stung. In the back of my mind I was like "miller b's always suck....miller b's always suck" but after 09-10 it was easy to get blinded into thinking "DC is the new snow capital of the EC so the models have to be right.". All the excitement of christmas with family and then a big snowstorm.....and then poof. It was a stinger. Take away the psu storm and the season was pretty bad. Cold and dry for the most part. We could pull off a strong ull this year. No reason to think we can't. Let's hope one of our upcoming pna spikes throws us a bone. ..but you can't do that in the DC area. You can't take away the one decent storm and complain about the rest of the winter. Just having multiple snowfall days makes a winter more 'wintry' than most. Matt wrote a post a few years ago about how we almost never nickle-and-dime our way to a 20"+ winter-- almost all of them had a 6"+ snowstorm. I printed it out and still refer to it frequently. I believe the most recent winter where DCA hit 20" without a 6"+ snowstorm was 1977/1978. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 I missed it, but it was fun to follow this thread from afar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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