WEATHER53 Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 We can meet at frozen pond of someone's choice, date and time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 20 degrees 1/2" of snow please stay under 32 today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxdude64 Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 22 hours ago, EastCoast NPZ said: When I was a young child (back in the 70s), everyone in my family owned ice-skates. Vivid memories of ice-skating on a distant-relative's pond. Sizeable crowds gathered doing the same. Perhaps time has fogged my memory as to the frequency of such events, but they did occur regularly-enough back then for my parents to have invested in skates for all us kids. Things are very different these days. 21 hours ago, uncletim said: Your memory is correct about those years. My father's office complex in Springfield had a small pond where the employees' and their families had evening skating parties. My father was the chair of the skating club and it was his responsibility to check the ice and post a flag indicating that ice was thick enough. We all had skates and there was nearly always a period of a 2-3 weeks during the winter when the flag was up. Times have changed, both in terms of climate and liability! 21 hours ago, Bob Chill said: Honestly, 2.5" is totally safe you you are the ONLY one on the ice. Add another person and end up in the same area and it gets REALLY scary. lol. IME (and I have a lot of illegal skating experience), 3.5" is totally safe for a handful of spread out people. 4" is good for crowds. That's why most publications use that benchmark. The pond I use is totally shaded and pretty damn shallow. You can see bottom clearly through the ice in all but one section. I just stick to 50' from shore where it's less than 3' deep. Worst case is I slog my way back in the mud and broken ice. lol. Hasn't happened yet but I've had a more than a few propagating cracks that scared the F out of me even though there still wasn't much chance at breaking through. The teens that skate the pond don't measure ice thickness. They send a sucker out first and tell them to jump up and down. If he doesn't die then it's safe. 21 hours ago, Bob Chill said: The teens that skate the pond are used to me now. At first they HATED it when I showed up. I told them point blank I could care less what they drink and smoke. I used to charge 1 beer to keep my mouth shut but I don't drink anymore so I just say "hey man, puff puff give and nobody finds out" Yes, years ago same here. People skated local ponds all the time when I was younger (53 now) and it was nothing for the kids/teens to be out skating after dark with a tire or two burning on the bank for heat. If not that, sleigh riding the local hill with the same heat source. I wonder just how many tires we went through in those years? Bob, admit you are a bully and carry on lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 No snowcover cant get out of the 20's snowcover 35 here we come Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 Cold enough for my mini (50 sq ft) ice rink on my back patio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 That's awesome! That reminds me that I used to pour buckets of water on our concrete patio so I could skate on it. Never did anything as good as what you've done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 M0.5" Reisterstown. Cold finally starting to do its toll...Montgomery, Carroll, Baltimore starting to dispatch chimney fires and structure fires pretty frequently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 2 hours ago, nw baltimore wx said: That's awesome! That reminds me that I used to pour buckets of water on our concrete patio so I could skate on it. Never did anything as good as what you've done. It is literally a tarp, leftover 4x4s and water. It is so much better this year on the patio. The yard, while seeming flat to the naked eye, had too much slope last year. Weather ob - wind kicked up and some flurries are flying. Gonna get cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 11 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said: Spent about 20 minutes above freezing at home today DCA ticks 33 at the 6pm ob. I managed to stay below at 31.4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormpc Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 Funny, I am usually in a warm spot but I didn' get above 28.4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 7 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said: Very nice for you. DCA is the worst. Either way, still a very impressive cold snap. BWI went to 33 for an hour too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 We can't even do cold correctly right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 6 wokring structure fires in Montgomery County today. 2 went to a Task Force, 1 to a 2nd alarm. This was just dispatched in Potomac: https://twitter.com/mcfrsPIO/status/947291776024547329 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Chill Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 Two night ago it was 10 degrees colder than right now but it feels 10 times colder out there. Wind was kickin and it was cutting right through. Nice snow retention for getting close to freezing. Sidewalks are dangerous. Ice patches galore. That half inch of snow has some staying power. It can be 10 degrees in Feb and a half inch evaporates by noon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEATHER53 Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 Cleared off and dropped to 19.8 i might not top that this afternoon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 1 hour ago, Tenman Johnson said: Cleared off and dropped to 19.8 i might not top that this afternoon YOU WON'T. Heck, I might not get out of the upper teens. I dont think I have ever heard of Dale City with a DECEMBER high in the teens, EVER! [snow and cold weather weenie]The North Atlantic Current HAS slowed some. Scientists have shown that to be the case. Could that be one reason it is so cold and why this string of frigid days is so long? I want the North Atlantic Current to STOP altogether right now and stay that way for the next 98 billion years. I WANT the cold wave to last for as long as possible, even years, and completely destroy us all because I worship cold and snow so much. I love Hansen's report, and I worship Hansen because I know he is correct. [/snow and cold weather weenie] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxdude64 Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 Sitting at 9.1 degrees after reaching low of 8.9 last hour. Impressive cold considering I have zero snow cover. NNW wind at 7 mph making current WC -2.1 degrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDM Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 Got down to 12 this morning. Currently 13 with 4dp. The lack of overcast and the little bit of a dusting from yesterday did its thing. Tonight is gona be nippy for New Year's Revelers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 5 hours ago, Jebman said: YOU WON'T. Heck, I might not get out of the upper teens. I dont think I have ever heard of Dale City with a DECEMBER high in the teens, EVER! [snow and cold weather weenie]The North Atlantic Current HAS slowed some. Scientists have shown that to be the case. Could that be one reason it is so cold and why this string of frigid days is so long? I want the North Atlantic Current to STOP altogether right now and stay that way for the next 98 billion years. I WANT the cold wave to last for as long as possible, even years, and completely destroy us all because I worship cold and snow so much. I love Hansen's report, and I worship Hansen because I know he is correct. [/snow and cold weather weenie] After all of these years Jeb somehow Dale city has remained the coldest spot in our area congrats on the title. I know my area will get into the 20's today...so cool that you and Tenman stay in the teens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDM Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 If you want to see something impressive, check out the current scope of the WCA and WCW on NOAA. Don't recall seeing that much of CONUS with that much of a watch or warning area - at least not in recent memory. http://www.weather.gov/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxdude64 Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 1 minute ago, RDM said: If you want to see something impressive, check out the current scope of the WCA and WCW on NOAA. Don't recall seeing that much of CONUS with that much of a watch or warning area - at least not in recent memory. http://www.weather.gov/ Yep, that IS impressive, about half the country it appears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDM Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 2 minutes ago, wxdude64 said: Yep, that IS impressive, about half the country it appears. Yea - and even the scope of the WCW is pretty bold. Those folks in the upper Midwest are used to this stuff, so a WCW for them is probably old hat, or used to be in the good ole days of cold lore. Still, temps of circa -20F with a wc of -35 or colder is cold in anyone's book. The coldest I've ever experienced in my life is -42F. Those sorts of temps do things to you... Not sure I'd ever get used to that. Hats off to the farmers and first responders in the upper Midwest who deal with this stuff as a normal course of life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 6:22am Christmas morning was the last time I was above freezing, with a high of 34.6, low that day 24 since then: 12/26: 30.7 20.9 12/27: 24.6 13.6 12/28: 19.8 8.4 12/29: 23.1 9.2 12/30: 29.6 14.9 Low of 9.8 today impressive stretch of cold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
das Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 Tracks pretty close to mine, @mappy. We went below freezing a few hours later in Clarksburg. 25Dec H/L: 36.6°F/27.1°F; 26Dec: 28.2°F/15.1°F; 27Dec: 23.9°F/9.8°F; 28Dec: 18.7°F/9.5°F; 29Dec: 25.5°F/14.6°F; 30Dec: 29.8°F/11.1°F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVclimo Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 2017 will finish with only 8 days of snow cover for the year in my yard, and only 4 of those days with more than an inch. Here's hoping for better results than that in 2018. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoast NPZ Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 53 minutes ago, WVclimo said: 2017 will finish with only 8 days of snow cover for the year in my yard, and only 4 of those days with more than an inch. Here's hoping for better results than that in 2018. Pathetic. I suspect that we will not even reach those levels this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailylurker Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 Beautiful deep winter day. I'm planning on doing a hike this afternoon in a area that I've been wanting to explore but is to wet normally. It's been so dry and cold that the swamp is accessible. My coating of white yesterday morning really helped my mood. Dark, cloudy, cold with some white on the ground is a win. December has been great. I hope January produces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 Awesome day. Love the look and feel of it. Low, ineffective sun, further limited by the cloud cover. With temps in the upper teens, the sun is futile in its attempts to melt less than a half inch of snow. Kinda feels like I am in some northern location. Wisconsin maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 Light snow and 2 degrees. Beautiful winter day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVclimo Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 Record low max at MRB for today is 19. Currently 18 and overcast. We will probably miss the record by a bit, as we did on Thursday when we missed tying it by a degree. Tomorrow looks like we shatter the previous low max at the airport for 1/1 of 26. DCA is also forecast to have their coldest 1/1 high since 1918. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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