Deck Pic Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Of 73 measurable events (0.25"+) in my backyard during this time frame, these are my top 20 in order. 1) 2/5-6/2010 - 22.25" Absolute Crippler. Too bad we wasted so much liquid at the beginning 2) 12/18-19/2009 - 18.5" Pivot!. Synoptic Perfection, and so unusually early. 3) 3/1-2/2009 - 7.5" All night frigid rakage after a nervous start. The start of March becoming the new December. 4) 2/9-10/2010 - 12.5" Insult to injury. Legit real deal low viz. Ian - "Look Outside!!" 5) 3/16-17/2014 - 7.75" Perfect Timing. Downtown street assassination. 6) 3/5/2015 - 5.25" Ideally timed daytime storm. Legit afternoon ++. 7) 2/13/2007 - 2.75" Uber impact. Never seen anything like it. The ultimate sleet storm. 8) 2/11-12/2006 - 11.0" Thundersnow, 7" in 3 hours. Who cares if it melted in 20 seconds. 9) 1/30/2010 - 6.5" High Ratios indeed. Frigid daytime, weekend event kicked off the bonanza. 10) 1/26/2011 - 6.75" Thunder. Bomb. What's the opposite of nuisance? 11) 2/25/2007 - 4.25" Beautiful Sunday Dendrite Pasting. Low to the west? Who cares? 12) 3/3/2014 - 4.0" Yes, snow can stick to the roads in March. Yes, It can be in the teens during the day in March. 13)1/6/2015 - 3.25" Surprise, Surprise. 14) 3/25/2013 - 2.25" March 25th? Grassy accumulations only! lol. 15) 1/21/2014 - 4.5" Finally. A damn 4-8" event. Was that so hard? 16) 2/21/2015 - 3.5" Weekend daytime fun. Nice fatties after the ratio bust. 17) 2/12/2014 - 8.75" Meh. Sorry weenies. The models aren't wrong about the flip time because you want them to be. 18)12/5/2007 - 4.25" Super band! 12/5, Stays alive. 19)12/5-6/2005 - 3.25" All snow pasting. Capitalizing on a sick pattern when climo sucks is nice. 20) 2/25/2014 - 2.25" Beautiful morning overperformer. Sorry Carroll County. Boo-Hoo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Prelim list. 10 years covers a lot of events so I'll have to think about it but these are my tentative top 5. 1) 2/10/2010 blizzard (~21") 2) December 2009 HECS (19") 3) 2/6/2010 HECS (25") 4) Feb 2006 MECS (15") 5) 2/13/2014 MECS (17" at MU) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Prelim list. 10 years covers a lot of events so I'll have to think about it but these are my tentative top 5. 1) 2/10/2010 blizzard (~21") 2) December 2009 HECS (19") 3) 2/6/2010 HECS (25") 4) Feb 2006 MECS (15") 5) 2/13/2014 MECS (17" at MU) 6) 2/21/2015 (8.5", finally a good storm in 2014-15) 7) 12/8/2013 (5.8", huge overperformer thanks to northern MD deathband, incredible rates, amazing start to an amazing winter) 8) 12/10/2013 (5" at MU, so pretty and perfect for Christmas season) 9) 12/5/2009 (5.8" of paste to kick off the greatest winter of all time, elevation really helped!) 10) Feb 2007 sleet storm (not the MECS/HECS I was hoping for, but still a very unique storm that made the winter very interesting. ~5" snow/sleet) There's no doubt that 1/26/11 and 1/21/14 would be on the list if I'd been home. Two honorable mentions outside my backyard: October 2011 (went to York, saw +SN and 4-5" in October, super cool) Feb 2013 HECS in SNE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 2/12/14 at #17. Ouch! I will not be able to forget the shadows that the snow clumps were making on the ground from the streetlight as we were getting pasted at 2-3am. I would find a way to sneak 2/2/10 onto my list Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Of 73 measurable events (0.25"+) in my backyard during this time frame, these are my top 20 in order. 1) 2/5-6/2010 - 22.25" Absolute Crippler. Too bad we wasted so much liquid at the beginning 2) 12/18-19/2009 - 18.5" Pivot!. Synoptic Perfection, and so unusually early. 3) 3/1-2/2009 - 7.5" All night frigid rakage after a nervous start. The start of March becoming the new December. 4) 2/9-10/2010 - 12.5" Insult to injury. Legit real deal low viz. Ian - "Look Outside!!" 5) 3/16-17/2014 - 7.75" Perfect Timing. Downtown street assassination. 6) 3/5/2015 - 5.25" Ideally timed daytime storm. Legit afternoon ++. 7) 2/13/2007 - 2.75" Uber impact. Never seen anything like it. The ultimate sleet storm. 8) 2/11-12/2006 - 11.0" Thundersnow, 7" in 3 hours. Who cares if it melted in 20 seconds. 9) 1/30/2010 - 6.5" High Ratios indeed. Frigid daytime, weekend event kicked off the bonanza. 10) 1/26/2011 - 6.75" Thunder. Bomb. What's the opposite of nuisance? 11) 2/25/2007 - 4.25" Beautiful Sunday Dendrite Pasting. Low to the west? Who cares? 12) 3/3/2014 - 4.0" Yes, snow can stick to the roads in March. Yes, It can be in the teens during the day in March. 13)1/6/2015 - 3.25" Surprise, Surprise. 14) 3/25/2013 - 2.25" March 25th? Grassy accumulations only! lol. 15) 1/21/2014 - 4.5" Finally. A damn 4-8" event. Was that so hard? 16) 2/21/2015 - 3.5" Weekend daytime fun. Nice fatties after the ratio bust. 17) 2/12/2014 - 8.75" Meh. Sorry weenies. The models aren't wrong about the flip time because you want them to be. 18)12/5/2007 - 4.25" Super band! 12/5, Stays alive. 19)12/5-6/2005 - 3.25" All snow pasting. Capitalizing on a sick pattern when climo sucks is nice. 20) 2/25/2014 - 2.25" Beautiful morning overperformer. Sorry Carroll County. Boo-Hoo! Early March 2013 didn't make the cut? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gymengineer Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Of 73 measurable events (0.25"+) in my backyard during this time frame, these are my top 20 in order. 1) 2/5-6/2010 - 22.25" Absolute Crippler. Too bad we wasted so much liquid at the beginning 2) 12/18-19/2009 - 18.5" Pivot!. Synoptic Perfection, and so unusually early. 3) 3/1-2/2009 - 7.5" All night frigid rakage after a nervous start. The start of March becoming the new December. 4) 2/9-10/2010 - 12.5" Insult to injury. Legit real deal low viz. Ian - "Look Outside!!" 5) 3/16-17/2014 - 7.75" Perfect Timing. Downtown street assassination. 6) 3/5/2015 - 5.25" Ideally timed daytime storm. Legit afternoon ++. 7) 2/13/2007 - 2.75" Uber impact. Never seen anything like it. The ultimate sleet storm. 8) 2/11-12/2006 - 11.0" Thundersnow, 7" in 3 hours. Who cares if it melted in 20 seconds. Do you have some pics you can share from the 3/16-17/14 event? I didn't go outside late night when it was at its peak, and unfortunately, this was the street scene when I walked around in the morning : Compare that to early afternoon on 3/5/15: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceFrederickWx Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 2/5-6/10 2/9-10/10 12/18-19/09 3/16-17/14 1/30/10 2/2-3/10 2/16/15 3/5/15 3/3/14 1/21/14 1/26/11 3/25/13 2/26/15 3/1-2/09 1/29/14 2/11-12/06 12/5/07 2/12-13/14 1/2-3/14 12/8/13 This list is not based on total accumulations, but rather my own subjective criteria. Winters 05/06 through 12/13 were in Glen Burnie. Winters 13/14 through 14/15 were in Prince Frederick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoast NPZ Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 1. Dec 18 - 19, 2009 2. Dec 18 - 19, 2009 3. Dec 18 - 19, 2009 4. Dec 18 - 19, 2009 5. Dec 18 - 19, 2009 6. Dec 18 - 19, 2009 7. Dec 18 - 19, 2009 8. Dec 18 - 19, 2009 9. Dec 18 - 19, 2009 10. Dec 18 - 19, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deck Pic Posted March 11, 2015 Author Share Posted March 11, 2015 2/12/14 at #17. Ouch! I will not be able to forget the shadows that the snow clumps were making on the ground from the streetlight as we were getting pasted at 2-3am. I would find a way to sneak 2/2/10 onto my list I liked 2/2 as well. I am probably being overly cruel to 2/12/14 as it did snow hard, but the flip sucked, the day of the 13th sucked, and "part 2" was a joke. I could see moving it up to 11th on my list, but not higher than that. It did make for some nice piles after the storm even with the melting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deck Pic Posted March 11, 2015 Author Share Posted March 11, 2015 Do you have some pics you can share from the 3/16-17/14 event? I didn't go outside late night when it was at its peak, and unfortunately, this was the street scene when I walked around in the morning : yes...I have a pic from 4am...I'll post when I get a chance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEATHER53 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 So good. Nothing else to say. Winter Weather and March winter weather is on again around DC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deck Pic Posted March 11, 2015 Author Share Posted March 11, 2015 First 2 are 11:30pm on 3/16/14, 2nd 2 are 4:00am on 3/17/14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Of 73 measurable events (0.25"+) in my backyard during this time frame, these are my top 20 in order. 1) 2/5-6/2010 - 22.25" Absolute Crippler. Too bad we wasted so much liquid at the beginning 2) 12/18-19/2009 - 18.5" Pivot!. Synoptic Perfection, and so unusually early. 3) 3/1-2/2009 - 7.5" All night frigid rakage after a nervous start. The start of March becoming the new December. 4) 2/9-10/2010 - 12.5" Insult to injury. Legit real deal low viz. Ian - "Look Outside!!" 5) 3/16-17/2014 - 7.75" Perfect Timing. Downtown street assassination. 6) 3/5/2015 - 5.25" Ideally timed daytime storm. Legit afternoon ++. 7) 2/13/2007 - 2.75" Uber impact. Never seen anything like it. The ultimate sleet storm. 8) 2/11-12/2006 - 11.0" Thundersnow, 7" in 3 hours. Who cares if it melted in 20 seconds. 9) 1/30/2010 - 6.5" High Ratios indeed. Frigid daytime, weekend event kicked off the bonanza. 10) 1/26/2011 - 6.75" Thunder. Bomb. What's the opposite of nuisance? 11) 2/25/2007 - 4.25" Beautiful Sunday Dendrite Pasting. Low to the west? Who cares? 12) 3/3/2014 - 4.0" Yes, snow can stick to the roads in March. Yes, It can be in the teens during the day in March. 13)1/6/2015 - 3.25" Surprise, Surprise. 14) 3/25/2013 - 2.25" March 25th? Grassy accumulations only! lol. 15) 1/21/2014 - 4.5" Finally. A damn 4-8" event. Was that so hard? 16) 2/21/2015 - 3.5" Weekend daytime fun. Nice fatties after the ratio bust. 17) 2/12/2014 - 8.75" Meh. Sorry weenies. The models aren't wrong about the flip time because you want them to be. 18)12/5/2007 - 4.25" Super band! 12/5, Stays alive. 19)12/5-6/2005 - 3.25" All snow pasting. Capitalizing on a sick pattern when climo sucks is nice. 20) 2/25/2014 - 2.25" Beautiful morning overperformer. Sorry Carroll County. Boo-Hoo! Nice list covering a lot of years! One question: on the March 25 event, did you mean last year (2014) and not 2013? We had a Mar. 25 event in both of those years. Not sure how both did where you're at, but I got 4.0" in 2013 and 3.0" in 2014. The one last year was actually subjectively better in my opinion (though a bit less accumulation), since it was a bit colder, it stuck to the pavement, we got some nice bands late in the day, and it was still on the ground for a couple of days (the one in 2013 changed to light rain in the afternoon). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deck Pic Posted March 11, 2015 Author Share Posted March 11, 2015 Nice list covering a lot of years! One question: on the March 25 event, did you mean last year (2014) and not 2013? We had a Mar. 25 event in both of those years. Not sure how both did where you're at, but I got 4.0" in 2013 and 3.0" in 2014. The one last year was actually subjectively better in my opinion (though a bit less accumulation), since it was a bit colder, it stuck to the pavement, we got some nice bands late in the day, and it was still on the ground for a couple of days (the one in 2013 changed to light rain in the afternoon). 2013...started before dawn, and stuck to heavily traveled streets. 2014 sucked here. I got over 2", but it never street stuck and it basically melted during lulls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deck Pic Posted March 11, 2015 Author Share Posted March 11, 2015 Heavily traveled street in Old Town right by Potomac at 5:30am on 3/25/13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterymix Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Feb 10, 2010 was my top event, 24 1/2" at my home. I used a snow board and cleaned it each 6 hours. Got up in the middle of the night to keep the measurements accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 2013...started before dawn, and stuck to heavily traveled streets. 2014 sucked here. I got over 2", but it never street stuck and it basically melted during lulls. Thanks for clarifying. Yeah, especially that late in the year, location can make a big difference. I do recall last year's Mar. 25 event had lulls, so I guess it depended on what bands one got into, or didn't. I recall later in the day brought up my total (and it stuck better). You are correct about Mar. 25, 2013, it started pre-dawn and the ground was well covered before mid-morning. Again, liked the list you put down. Though I recall all the biggest events of course, it jogged my memory on some of the more "obscure" ones. I find it interesting that you got >20" from Snowmageddon right there in the District itself, yet DCA could "only" manage around 17" (heh!!). I, myself, measured 23.5" in Silver Spring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceFrederickWx Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Not top 20, but a couple honorable mentions too... the 12/13 winter had the wintry period from 12/24-12/29 (12/24 dusting, 12/26 inch of snow to rain, 12/29 half inch)... noteworthy just because any flakes flying Christmas week is nice. Also liked the two mini-clipper events on 1/24/13 and 1/25/13, which was snow on snow with several days of subfreezing highs. All of these are kind of trite compared to events in the two winters that followed, but at the time it was nice. Also 2/13-14/07, 2/25/07 and 3/1/15 ice event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Not top 20, but a couple honorable mentions too... the 12/13 winter had the wintry period from 12/24-12/29 (12/24 dusting, 12/26 inch of snow to rain, 12/29 half inch)... noteworthy just because any flakes flying Christmas week is nice. Also liked the two mini-clipper events on 1/24/13 and 1/25/13, which was snow on snow with several days of subfreezing highs. All of these are kind of trite compared to events in the two winters that followed, but at the time it was nice. Also 2/13-14/07, 2/25/07 and 3/1/15 ice event. That was a good week out here. About 3" on Christmas Eve, about 5-6" on the day after Christmas (followed by a solid glazing), and then about 2" that Saturday morning. I think I ended up with 3 weeks of snow cover off of that week. My memory could be off a little on amounts. It's here somewhere, in a snow total thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gymengineer Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 My top 15- Mix of Potomac (up through 09/10) and North Bethesda-- my most important criteria was impact with actual amount being a distant second. However, amounts do matter enough that I'm not including any high impact 1-3" events. 1) 2/5-6/10: 26.5" Easy #1-- superb rates near midnight accompanied by wind gusts above 35 mph, 30-hr power outage is the second longest at that location. With the power out, there was no radar/board checking on Saturday, so it was just sheer enjoyment of watching the snow fall (while shivering). Combined with 2/9-10/10, I had the whole week off. 2) 12/18-19/09: 21" Just a gorgeous event with the best part during the daytime. As it ended, the winds drifted the snow to completely encase cars. We were stuck for more than 24 hours. I also loved the way the modeling turned out on this event with the consensus reached rather late for a relatively short notice given the scale of the event. It also gave me three days off work for a really long Winter Break. 3) 2/9-10/10: 13.5" The best blizzard I've ever experienced. Of course, combined with the 2/5-6 event, it had an amplified impact of shutting down everything and keeping us house-bound again. It left my highest snow depth ever and also finished off the entire work week even though this event ended on a Wednesday. 4) 1/26/11: 8.5" (including the inch from the morning) Super high impact for a <10" storm. Aside from the crippling of travel that night, the power outages in my county were near the Derecho's level, and until the Derecho, it was the second highest power outage behind Isabel. Three days off work as power crews slowly restored power. 5) 2/13-14/07: 3.75" I thought the 2/94 sleet storm would be unbeatable in terms of sleet impact-- this beat it. Three days off work because the school parking lots (and many side streets) turned to solid ice on the bottom layer that could not be cleared in regular ways. The school system had to call in special ice-hacking equipment. 6) 3/5/15: 7" 2 days off work, road-sticking daytime snow followed by very cold temps. People were pretty surprised how bad the roads were the following morning---12 hours after the snow stopped. It's probably my favorite moderate (<8") event ever. 7) 2/12-13/14: 15.5" total of two parts 2 days off work, the melting during the day was kind of annoying, and roads were quickly cleared (even by daybreak). But at my location, the evening band performed, re-covering the roads even with above freezing temps. 8) 3/3/14: 5.25" 2 days off work, the most efficient sticking on streets during peak sun angle since 1/30/10 (and much later in the season). Only negative was that totals in the metro area were on or just below the low end of the predicted ranges. 9) 2/11/06: 13.5" 1 day off work-- storm wrapped up by Sunday morning. The rates were great, but I was asleep during the best parts. Also, my neighborhood street was plowed by 8 am, which was really annoying. But it *was* still a foot of snow. 10) 3/1/09: 6.5" 1 day off work. That band! Superb last minute recovery for what looked like a for-sure busted forecast. I loved that temps were plunging during the heaviest snow as well. 11) 1/21/14: 6.5" 1 day off work and a 2-hr delay the next. First 6"+ event since 1/11. Cold storm towards the end for nice accumulations. 12) 3/16-17/14: 9" 1 day off work. This storm should have been much cooler for me, but I just live in the wrong area to have been able to fully appreciate it. As I've posted in multiple other threads, with attached pics, it was as if the snow ended 24-hrs prior by 7 am of 3/17 on my street. 13) 1/30/10: 5.75" Kicked off the magical 2-week stretch. I loved how the modeling came about in this one too with the north trend that didn't stop that last 24 hours of runs. 14) 1/6/15: 3.75" 1 day off work and 2-hr delay the next day. Snow stuck immediately to roads and caused some of the worst local traffic issues-- including even temporary road closure of secondary roads like Veirs Mill Rd--since 1/26/11. 15) 2/25/07: 5" Surprise snow blitz that wasn't anything close to the model blend solution; the snow quickly covered all roads even during the peak sun angle hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gymengineer Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 First 2 are 11:30pm on 3/16/14, 2nd 2 are 4:00am on 3/17/14 Thanks! I really wish I didn't have a cold that night so that I could have woken up pre-dawn to go outside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceFrederickWx Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Oh... one more honorable mention... can't believe I forgot 12/16/10. Little clipper, BWI only got 1.2 inches and DCA 1.5, but my drive home from work was a disaster. Route 3 was a total mess. Took me 3.5 hours to get home (normal driving time was about 50-60 mins). That drive was worse than some legit storms. That was the longest lasting 1.2 inches ever too- I could still find tiny spots on Christmas Eve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deck Pic Posted March 12, 2015 Author Share Posted March 12, 2015 Oh... one more honorable mention... can't believe I forgot 12/16/10. Little clipper, BWI only got 1.2 inches and DCA 1.5, but my drive home from work was a disaster. Route 3 was a total mess. Took me 3.5 hours to get home (normal driving time was about 50-60 mins). That drive was worse than some legit storms. That was the longest lasting 1.2 inches ever too- I could still find tiny spots on Christmas Eve. I liked it too...1.5" IMBY and it stuck around, even in alleys that don't get sun, for a good week+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoast NPZ Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 If I were to make an actual list, I'd damn sure put Dec 24, 2012 on it. Surprise 2" White Christmas. Great event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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