gymengineer Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Hmmm, winds with steadily dropping temps--- DC seems on a better track to finish in the single digits than last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravensrule Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 This is exactly the kind of infrastructure failure that JB was warning everyone about before the cold spell! There is probably 8 billion dollars worth of potholes in NYC by itself, so it looks like he is right. I drove up there today because most Amtrak chains were canceled and it is a miracle i did not blow all my tires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravensrule Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Bangkok this morning had it's lowest temperature in 30 years, 60 degrees . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchnick Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 just to make us feel good... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
84 Hour NAM Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Gotta say, the NH ice coverage looks pretty good. Haven't seen it like that in a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 If we don't get some sort of major pattern realignment it's gonna take a while to unfreeze the source regions. I'm starting to worry about my late feb flower planting. Also CA may run out of water. Ridiculously little snow in the Sierra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 I'm going to get out to the river the next day or two. Maybe walking on it mid next week? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchnick Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 I'm going to get out to the river the next day or two. Maybe walking on it mid next week? you get a gig with the Washington Post and now you think you can walk on water.....typical Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowfan Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the smaller tributaries are fully iced over by the end of next week. I'll need to get back down to annapolis sometime soon to check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 you get a gig with the Washington Post and now you think you can walk on water.....typical We'll see I guess. It was nice knowin' y'all.. well, some of you. I hate the cold for the most part but an intriguing situation is developing where we could in theory end up with a really good winter. Maybe it's the snow on the ground talking. I certainly didn't think this is where we'd be sitting with another 3-4 weeks of peak climo snow ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchnick Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the smaller tributaries are fully iced over by the end of next week. I'll need to get back down to annapolis sometime soon to check it out. legislature is in....good luck finding parking during the day downtown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 TerpWeather posted this on Twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchnick Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 We'll see I guess. It was nice knowin' y'all.. well, some of you. I hate the cold for the most part but an intriguing situation is developing where we could in theory end up with a really good winter. Maybe it's the snow on the ground talking. I certainly didn't think this is where we'd be sitting with another 3-4 weeks of peak climo snow ahead. we had some decent signs early on with the snow cover in Asia and a lot of great winters showing up on the supercomputer analogs starting in November in fact, I remember posting to HM in late NOV and saying "I wonder if we end up with a great winter we won't look back and say the writing was on the wall with these great analog dates" hopefully, but we have a lot of time left to blow it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 we had some decent signs early on with the snow cover in Asia and a lot of great winters showing up on the supercomputer analogs starting in November in fact, I remember posting to HM in late NOV and saying "I wonder if we end up with a great winter we won't look back and say the writing was on the wall with these great analog dates" hopefully, but we have a lot of time left to blow it! I remember a bit of talk but we have that every year it seems. Though for some reasons ref to 1995-96 stand out. Maybe I made that up after seeing it show up a lot in the 'since' category when it comes to cold. Obviously not going there but everyone 100-250% normal ytd or so locally with some historically sweet weeks ahead and cold air seemingly plentiful. I'm sorta bullish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVclimo Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 I think after today, my local airport MRB will again have a lower mean temp for January than Anchorage, Alaska. Would be awesome to finish the month that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 2" min to walk on ice...and even that's considered unsafe but I've played plenty of pond hockey with 2-2.5" and nobody died. 3" and you have no worries even in groups. 6-7" and you open up new commuter routes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 2" min to walk on ice...and even that's considered unsafe but I've played plenty of pond hockey with 2-2.5" and nobody died. 3" and you have no worries even in groups. 6-7" and you open up new commuter routes. I'd probably never do it but you could get some awesome unique shots if the river were to freeze over entirely to that level around here. I'm not sure what that would take. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 I'd probably never do it but you could get some awesome unique shots if the river were to freeze over entirely to that level around here. I'm not sure what that would take. It's really not.that scary. 3" and no chance. Ice warns you too. You can tell well in advance if starts getting unstable. It's unnerving the first time but after that you just walk slow and watch and listen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEATHER53 Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Hit 9 for a bit but now 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEATHER53 Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 South River right out to the Bay was so frozen over 1977. With snowcover could not tell where land left off and ice began. Cars out on it . Bay was frozen and some did walk out onto shallow parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Low of 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donsutherland1 Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 This morning, the temperature fell to at least 7° at BWI Airport. That is the season's 8th single-digit low, tying winter 2013-14 with winter 1993-94 for single-digit minimum temperatures. The last winter with more such low temperatures was winter 1983-84 with 9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchnick Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 This morning, the temperature fell to at least 7° at BWI Airport. That is the season's 8th single-digit low, tying winter 2013-14 with winter 1993-94 for single-digit minimum temperatures. The last winter with more such low temperatures was winter 1983-84 with 9. we'll have a new record come next week at this time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dcg Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 we'll have a new record come next week at this time I'm just south and touched 6.5 about an hour ago. Reading 7.5 now. You colder on the north end? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchnick Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 I'm just south and touched 6.5 about an hour ago. Reading 7.5 now. You colder on the north end? idk I never bothered to get a thermometer but am usually around at least a degree colder than BWI during close winter precip events per snowfall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 6 is the low they gave me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astarck Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 8 in Arlington 0.4 in Fredericksburg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchnick Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 This morning, the temperature fell to at least 7° at BWI Airport. That is the season's 8th single-digit low, tying winter 2013-14 with winter 1993-94 for single-digit minimum temperatures. The last winter with more such low temperatures was winter 1983-84 with 9. BWI dropped 1 degree to 6 as the official low Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 just to make us feel good... Have to imagine that's gonna look like that we'll into February at this point. I for one am a fan of snowcover days although I know some here aren't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midatlanticweather Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 5.4 - been stuck there for the last hour or so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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