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the October snowstorm Ian Disaster its going to be a long winter thread


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Hmmm...pretty hard to snow at 43 (or higher). Possible, but takes a pretty special environment that's not too common around here. What were temps the next day? Did a big cold front blast through or something? If temps the next day were about the same, I call BS on that.

I think just last winter we had a brief period of rain/snow mix between 45-50 degrees across the MA? I'll try to dig it up.

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Next day it was 49 High, 34 Low. Here's the October records: http://www.erh.noaa.gov/lwx/climate/bwi/bwi1003.txt

What's weird is they don't list the trace amount of snow on the daily records, but it shows up on that October records page I posted before and on the yearly snowfall totals page: http://www.erh.noaa....bwi/bwisnow.txt

Its not on that Wunderground page RodneyS posted either. So did it snow or not? :lol:

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Next day it was 43 High, 34 Low. Here's the October records: http://www.erh.noaa.gov/lwx/climate/bwi/bwi1003.txt

What's weird is they don't list the trace amount of snow on the daily records, but it shows up on that October records page I posted before and on the yearly snowfall totals page: http://www.erh.noaa....bwi/bwisnow.txt

Its not on that Wunderground page RodneyS posted either. So did it snow or not? :lol:

There was precip on the 22nd. I'd be more inclined to believe the monthly climo report (and the lack of anyone remembering it) than the snowfall totals.

That snowfall totals link also shows a Trace of snow in June in 2002?!? Hail?

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Hmmm...pretty hard to snow at 43 (or higher). Possible, but takes a pretty special environment that's not too common around here. What were temps the next day? Did a big cold front blast through or something? If temps the next day were about the same, I call BS on that.

Weather Underground says that the range on October 23, 2003 was 35-48; see http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KBWI/2003/10/23/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA

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Were you trolling his "alert/geek post"/GFS-bashing comment?

yes

i asked why he still hugs the euro so much and if he felt his self congratulation on a storm 5 days away was premature yesterday

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That's it. I thought it had the GEFS tracks but doesn't, only the SREF. Thanks.

I think the GEFS (and others) are out on the new Model Analysis & Guidance (MAG) site:

http://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/NCOMAGWEB/appcontroller?prevpage=index&MainPage=index&cat=MODEL+GUIDANCE&page=MODEL+GUIDANCE

Here's the link to the Ops and Experimental model output front page for all of the products:

http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/GEFS/.php

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That snowfall totals link also shows a Trace of snow in June in 2002?!? Hail?

The DC weather records that I have show a trace of snow on several summer days, including July 1, 1990, when the temperature range was 69-90, and there were 0.44 inches of precipitation. Obviously any frozen precipitation that fell on that day had to be hail, but perhaps a novice employee who is asked to record the amount of "snow and ice" may interpret hail to qualify in that category.

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I think the GEFS (and others) are out on the new Model Analysis & Guidance (MAG) site:

http://mag.ncep.noaa...=MODEL+GUIDANCE

Here's the link to the Ops and Experimental model output front page for all of the products:

http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/GEFS/.php

GEFS seem a bit more supportive of the storm #2 idea. Lots of spread extending back closer to the coast Monday-ish. GFS and GEFS definitely slowed both systems down somewhat.

The DC weather records that I have show a trace of snow on several summer days, including July 1, 1990, when the temperature range was 69-90, and there were 0.44 inches of precipitation. Obviously any frozen precipitation that fell on that day had to be hail, but perhaps a novice employee who is asked to record the amount of "snow and ice" may interpret hail to qualify in that category.

In official AF observing, we had to report measurable hail as snow/ice.

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looks like some snow in the mtns. va, wva. nothing heavy. the storm bombs east of del. as it passes the mid atl.

F-cking Miller B's :angry:

I wonder if the Euro is continuing it's legacy from last winter. It was a big c*cktease in the Day 5-7 range only to lose these sweet looking storms as we got closer to gametime.

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F-cking Miller B's :angry:

I wonder if the Euro is continuing it's legacy from last winter. It was a big c*cktease in the Day 5-7 range only to lose these sweet looking storms as we got closer to gametime.

yeah, last year was bad but 08/09 was even worse

I still have those images saved in my computer because I'm such a loosing whiner :weep:

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