gymengineer Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 IAD almost always gets more snow than DCA in a season, so just drastically different seasonal totals aren't enough call a season a "north and west" season. IMO, those winters are the ones where there's a large disparity in the seasonal percent-of-average total. So, ones where IAD ended up significantly above average while DCA was below average or where IAD ended up above average while DCA was signficantly below average. There are only 3 seasons in that case: 1969-1970: 30.2" at IAD; 14.0" at DCA. Huge Christmas night storm was 12"+ at IAD while mixing and changing over at DCA. January was also disparate with 3.6" at DCA and 9.8" at IAD. 1983-1984: 22.4" at IAD; 8.6" at DCA. The big difference here was March. Aside from the clipper-bomb that dropped much more snow in the 'burbs to paralyze traffic, there were two other mixed events in the month. The 968-mb low on the Delmarva (historic NC/SC tornado outbreak associated with the surface low) managed to start the morning with 3+" of late March snow. 1992-1993: 30.3" at IAD; 11.7" at DCA. Aside from the 14.1" at IAD compared to 6.6" at DCA in the March blizzard, February was also very different. IAD and the suburbs experienced a surprise 2-5" snow on a Sunday. Both airports got in on a very cold 3" snow at the end of the month. The only winter where DCA way outpaced IAD: 1987-1988: The Veteran's Day snow alone accounted for much of the difference- 5.5" at IAD compared to 11.5" at DCA. Seasonal totals- 25.0" at DCA and 16.7" at IAD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 it is going to take some time... I heard the euro weeklies and ensembles look really good 2nd week of FEB....we might have to punt the next 2 weeks..we'll see... Perhaps also 03-04 and maybe even 00-01, Mt Vortmax did great in those years IIRCAlso 93-94 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVclimo Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 For the "far" north and west where I live in the I-81 corridor, the 1990's were kind. 1997-98 takes the prize. 22.5" at MRB (86% of normal) while DCA had 0.1" The previous year, '96-'97, MRB finished right at average with 26.4" while DCA had 6.7" The ice winter of '93-'94 yielded 39.5" here, or 150% of average, while DC ended close to normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gymengineer Posted January 15, 2013 Author Share Posted January 15, 2013 Perhaps also 03-04 and maybe even 00-01, Mt Vortmax did great in those years IIRC Also 93-94 Well, including Manchester, MD into the region would add a couple other seasons. '00/'01 belongs on the list, but '03/'04 doesn't (Carroll County didn't do that much better %-wise than the suburbs). '93/'94 is in between. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Good stats/thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodneyS Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Good stats/thread.Agreed. FYI, the average/median annual amounts that IAD snow has exceeded DCA snow are 6.0/5.1 inches, respectively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gymengineer Posted January 15, 2013 Author Share Posted January 15, 2013 For the "far" north and west where I live in the I-81 corridor, the 1990's were kind. 1997-98 takes the prize. 22.5" at MRB (86% of normal) while DCA had 0.1" The previous year, '96-'97, MRB finished right at average with 26.4" while DCA had 6.7" The ice winter of '93-'94 yielded 39.5" here, or 150% of average, while DC ended close to normal. That's pretty crazy-- 97/98. We were literally 2-3 F away from two 12"+ snowstorms that WV (and Ohio and KY) got nailed with instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Well, including Manchester, MD into the region would add a couple other seasons. '00/'01 belongs on the list, but '03/'04 doesn't (Carroll County didn't do that much better %-wise than the suburbs). '93/'94 is in between. 03/04 was pretty good IMBY near Westminster. 35.5", so how much did the suburbs get you are referring to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gymengineer Posted January 17, 2013 Author Share Posted January 17, 2013 03/04 was pretty good IMBY near Westminster. 35.5", so how much did the suburbs get you are referring to? 21-28", including an 8-15" early December noreaster. Percent of normal, that's not too much different than your total. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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