usedtobe Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 cwg got linked on drudge! Cool. It was an impressive year. You guys must have had a nice article on the seasonal snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 I want a do-over. Anyone up for a megablock in a Nino? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris L Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Here is the SPC WRF for FEB 9th.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamHLG Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 And... it was COLD! The photographer in me needed to head out into the blizzard and my hand froze to my tripod during the 7 seconds I needed to remove my glove to set it up. Some images from Worthington Valley, Baltimore County.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamHLG Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 And when it was all done... remember the killer icicles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 Amazing storm down there. Not a great memory for me. Worst bust I had last season (and most mets up here). Northern edge of precip shield just got sliced off despite a decent 5h setup. It got just crushed enough to really affect the northern 20% of the precip shield so it busted badly here. One of those storms that humbles you as a forecaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted February 9, 2011 Author Share Posted February 9, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 Still one of my favorite pictures from last winter...this was just as the snow was "letting up"....there are houses across the street barely/not visible. Just some heavy heavy snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ji Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 this winter sucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted February 10, 2011 Author Share Posted February 10, 2011 Feb 6 Feb 10 Feb 6 Feb 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted February 10, 2011 Author Share Posted February 10, 2011 More from 2/10/2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 The depth of snow can sometimes be hard to gauge, but when it is right against something that you are very familiar with, it makes it so amazing. We have an open playing field right behind our house, and the wind just ripped across the field, up the 20' embankment, and right into our backyard. It was fantastic. Only wish we had more like the 20"+ of snow that N MD got, rather than my estimate of 9". And a fun one from the inside of our screened in "patio" (former carport). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Fozz Posted February 10, 2011 Author Share Posted February 10, 2011 Hunt Valley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchnick Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 I still can't figure out how NE got screwed on that one just doesn't seem possible they have a right to be pi$$ed about that one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BethesdaWX Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 When the deform band came in, I often could not see anything but White outside the window. Winds gusted to 62mph via vantagepro I thought it was a dream, The driveway had No Snow on it at all, while the side of my house had a 6-7 foot drift...I've never seen that before. A true blizzard from my perspective Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Here's a couple of my favs from the storm. I remember laughing during the whiteout thinking that this just isn't possible just a few days after a blizzard. It will likely never happen again before I'm dead but I have a ton of photos to keep the memories alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted February 10, 2011 Author Share Posted February 10, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3Rm9q3CoPY&feature=related Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpljr77 Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 My second child was born at 2am, February 11, 2010. So you know what that means. Around 2pm on the 10th, the wife informs me she has a nasty stomach bug. Lots of pain, lots of evacuation. She was three days short of her due date. One hour later, she informs me that it's time to go. The illness (or its symptoms) had triggered labor...and it was rapidly advancing. So we packed up, kissed our first kid goodbye, left instructions with my brother-in-law (who had agreed to get snowed in with us for this event and the 5th-6th storm, "just in case") and headed out into the blizzard. Here's a video I took a little before we left: Good times. On the plus side, we live close to the hospital -- Holy Cross in Silver Spring, MD. And the maternity ward was EMPTY, meaning we got plenty of attention. On the negative side: blizzard. At any rate, they got her some fluids, her bug passed, and a nice controlled labor set in. She was born at around 2am...after the snow stopped. The funniest thing was the aftermath at the hospital. Holy Cross has a massive, and very busy, maternity ward. But it was completely deserted on the 10th. At around 10am on the 11th, right when we were waking up, all those people who had stuck out the storm at their homes flooded the hospital. In fact, since it was our second and mom and baby were fine, and we lived so close, they straight up kicked us out after our pediatrician saw the baby on the evening of the 11th. We spent less than 24 hours at the hospital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Great storm! A true blizzard, which I hadn't experienced in a long time. Got around 2" of snow plus some sleet and freezing rain on the night of Feb. 9. I admit to getting fooled, thinking that it might be a huge bust of a forecast by that point with the sleet and freezing rain and when things were apparently "breaking up". I then woke up the morning of the 10th, to howling winds and complete white-out conditions. I do believe when I looked outside and saw what was going on, I quite literally said "What the ....?!" Ended up with 12.0" from this event, though it was nearly impossible to measure accurately with all the wind and drifting. There were other reports close to that amount near where I live, so it's probably reasonable, though I would not be surprised if it was somewhat more. We had heavy snow more or less from early morning into mid-afternoon, then some lighter snow through the early evening. Here's what greeted me, a couple of pictures taken just ouside my door: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gymengineer Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 In DC: Second half of this video is awesome: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted February 10, 2012 Author Share Posted February 10, 2012 Best blizzard ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TL97 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 What a storm... 24" here. Remember waking up to 8" here and reading reports of people switching over to snow, only a little sleet fell here. This was my favorite of the storms as the best conditions feel during the day, true whiteout. Couldn't see the second house down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 this winter sucks LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Good times... almost 50 inches in five days with two blizzard warnings. I went to work two days that entire week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUweathermanDD Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Good times... almost 50 inches in five days with two blizzard warnings. I went to work two days that entire week. Yea 53 in 5 days and 64 in 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted February 10, 2012 Author Share Posted February 10, 2012 I still can't get over how incredible it is (especially given our climo) to get ~4 feet of snow from two blizzards in the span of 5 days. Chances are that most of SNE has probably never had anything like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted February 10, 2012 Author Share Posted February 10, 2012 This was my favorite storm of the 2009-2010 season. Mine too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 I only got about 8-9" out of this one, but I remember like it was yesterday watching the reports of the one band that swung in from the Leesburg area on that morning. I watched the radar, and as soon as that band was over me, I looked outside to a raging whiteout. Pretty amazing. We just missed out on the banding that may have given us a few more inches during the day. I watched the radar hoping it would sag south, but it just never got around to it. While it was a little disappointing, I was just a wee bit happy with the 28" or so I'd gotten a few days earlier, so I wasn't going to complain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Still one of my favorite pictures from last winter...this was just as the snow was "letting up"....there are houses across the street barely/not visible. Just some heavy heavy snow. That band was insane....I literally woke up thinking the snow was done because I went to bed a little let down only to see things really start cranking....I hadn't been up more than 10 minutes...I would have kicked myself if I had slept through that part of the storm....good times.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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