Ian Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchnick Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 one of Randy's favorite snows....enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtracker Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Nice find. I remember several of my friends being trapped in school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Is it just me or does everything think people look more goofy in the 80's than now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchnick Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Is it just me or does everything think people look more goofy in the 80's than now? watch yourself young fella' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 watch yourself young fella' lol- i was in high school in the 80's. my yearbook pictures would earn goofball of the year awards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted November 9, 2011 Author Share Posted November 9, 2011 Nice find. I remember several of my friends being trapped in school. we're due for another one like that.. tho i might be pissed with less than the airport.. http://voices.washin...ay_in_1987.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtracker Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 we're due for another one like that.. tho i might be pissed with less than the airport.. http://voices.washin...ay_in_1987.html I remember that day so vividly. And Mitch is right, it is my favorite storm. Was in 7th grade and remember getting up that morning and it snowing like a mofo. The night before, the forecast was for rain, then some snow, accums an inch or less Got up, school was still on, although it was already about 2 inches on the ground and it was coming fast and furious. By the time I got dressed and walked down to the bus stop, another inch had fallen and the cop told us to go back home. Some of my friends were already on the bus and at school. They got stuck and had to spend the night. Ended up with about 14 or so inches (I was in Prince George's county). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoVaSnow Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 we're due for another one like that.. tho i might be pissed with less than the airport.. http://voices.washin...ay_in_1987.html I will never forget that day. I lived in Franconia, right about where that 12 is just south of Alexandria. I lost power in my townhouse, and cooked food over a fire in the fireplace. The storm was on a Wednesday. Both the weekend before and the weekend after, the temp surpassed 70. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted November 9, 2011 Author Share Posted November 9, 2011 I will never forget that day. I lived in Franconia, right about where that 12 is just south of Alexandria. I lost power in my townhouse, and cooked food over a fire in the fireplace. The storm was on a Wednesday. Both the weekend before and the weekend after, the temp surpassed 70. quite the evolution for a storm here any time of yr.. it must have produces up into new england as well? http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~gadomski/NARR/1987/us1111j5.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 I remember that storm as well, although I was in 3rd grade. We had about 8-10" up this way...couldn't believe how much we had given the time of year. Parts of the area near PYM had a foot or a bit more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 This storm was a driving force behind eliminating Fri night football playoffs in Virginia. I was in my second year of teaching. I was coaching football as well. We had lost the previous Friday night, so we were spared. The teams that had to play, however, played with snow on the ground, howling winds, and temps in the teens. We didn't get but an inch or two of snow down in the SW part of the state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVclimo Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 I lived in an apartment in Silver Spring in a development full of mature trees. Picked up 13" there, and it took a week for the maintenance to clear all the fallen trees/ branches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmlwx Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 we're due for another one like that.. tho i might be pissed with less than the airport.. Being due is a figment of your imagination Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 I really don't remember this storm and I have a great memory most of the time. I was a senior in HS and only had 3 classes. Maybe the daily partying clouded my mind? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 At the time of that storm, I lived along the beltway in College Park where there's an otherwise unnoticeable hill between where those coming south on 95 join the beltway and head towards Route 1 (I think there's a Home Depot shopping center there now). But during the height of the storm, my room mate and I walked over to the beltway and saw 18-wheelers strewn across all four lanes struggling to get up the tiny hill. My friend and I joined a group of stranded motorists that ,honest to God, pushed the trucks up the hill. I don't have the memory of storms that others here have, but that's one I'll never forget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 I love Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 I remember that day so vividly. And Mitch is right, it is my favorite storm. Was in 7th grade and remember getting up that morning and it snowing like a mofo. The night before, the forecast was for rain, then some snow, accums an inch or less Got up, school was still on, although it was already about 2 inches on the ground and it was coming fast and furious. By the time I got dressed and walked down to the bus stop, another inch had fallen and the cop told us to go back home. Some of my friends were already on the bus and at school. They got stuck and had to spend the night. Ended up with about 14 or so inches (I was in Prince George's county). I was in 9th and it hadn't quite yet really started when I went in to school. I remember the forecast clearly and it said maybe an inch. lol. By 9 or 10 I knew that things weren't right. school let out early and the bus wouldn't even go down my street due to the hills and that the road was 6" deep with snow. We walked home(100 miles) in +SN and it was awesome. I love that storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchnick Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 I was in 9th and it hadn't quite yet really started when I went in to school. I remember the forecast clearly and it said maybe an inch. lol. By 9 or 10 I knew that things weren't right. school let out early and the bus wouldn't even go down my street due to the hills and that the road was 6" deep with snow. We walked home(100 miles) in +SN and it was awesome. I love that storm. man, you had it lucky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 man, you had it lucky Mine was only 50 miles but it was uphill both ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 I was living in Takoma Park at the time...21 years old and working at Jumbo foods...we never closed and it was busy as heck...never worked so had to earn my $7 an hour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellinwood Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 I was 1 and lived in NY, so yeah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtracker Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 I was living in Takoma Park at the time...21 years old and working at Jumbo foods...we never closed and it was busy as heck...never worked so had to earn my $7 an hour Overpaid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 Overpaid. Shoot yeah...living at home scamming mom by not paying rent....straight cash to my pocket !! Party at the IBEX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted November 9, 2011 Author Share Posted November 9, 2011 I was 1 and lived in NY, so yeah. I was 6 and in So Cal. At least you didn't miss the 96 blizzard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 I was 3, so I don't remember it. I remember 93 and 96 though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 I was 6 and I don't remember it one bit. I don't think we had as much up in Harford County, though, as places closer to DC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted November 9, 2011 Author Share Posted November 9, 2011 was it all convective induced? or that cool the column etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usedtobe Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 quite the evolution for a storm here any time of yr.. it must have produces up into new england as well? http://www.meteo.psu...87/us1111j5.php We got in the deformation zone associated with the 500low. It was a neat storm. I was scheduled to work an afternoon shift and got up to get the paper with light rain falling. Right as I reached for the paper I heard a big crack of thunder and almost immediately the rain changed to S+. When I tried to drive to my 3:00Pm shift that afternoon. I had heard that there were troubles on the beltway in PG county but got on anyway and saw no other cars and thought, wow, this is great everyone is staying off the beltway. Then I caught up with the traffic jan/abandoned cars and barely made it off the beltway. It took me two hours to get to wrk via side roads. Bowie ended up with 11 inches. That year I had 13, 11, 15 and 11 from 4 different storms. The 15 incher was in Feb abd caused lots of tree damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usedtobe Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 was it all convective induced? or that cool the column etc. Ian, there was lots of convection...nice thundersnow. I never did look at a sounding to see whether the convection was due to an unstable layer or from slantwise convection. I suspect that it was the former based on the closed off look of the 500 and time of year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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