George BM Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 Well another year has ended and like last year I'm curious to know: What weather event last year was your favorite or most exciting/"extreme"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthArlington101 Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 Definitely the March windstorm. Scary and prolonged event. Nothing freaks me out like wind.We do wind well, sadly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George BM Posted January 6, 2019 Author Share Posted January 6, 2019 1 minute ago, NorthArlington101 said: Definitely the March windstorm. Scary and prolonged event. Nothing freaks me out like wind. We do wind well, sadly. Not tropical wind though. ...And yeah the March 2nd wind event blows everything else out the water for me last year. Adrenaline pumping and prolonged event. Nothing excites me like wind. We don't do tropical wind well, sadly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 +1 to NorthArlington...gotta say the wind storm. I was in Deep Creek so missed the impact here but it was intense out there with some snow too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ldub23 Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 That time a few months back when it didnt rain for 2 days in a row. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVclimo Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 The flooding here was epic but my favorite weather event had to be a 15" snow accumulation on March 21 (my snowiest birthday ever.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceFrederickWx Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 The Aug. 11 isolated storm that dropped 5.86" of rain over my house in less than two hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jrlg1181 Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 The late May deluge that dropped 10 to 12 inches in central Albemarle county..... just west of Charlottesville.... 3.7 at my house roughly 20 miles west of there...The heaviest convective rain in this general area since June 95 when 30.5 fell in Madison County..... NOT my favorite event because unfortunately it turned deadly..... But it was the most extreme event locally. ...For my area it was the mid Nov ice storm... That night was insane... Booms , bangs and cracks the entire night , with multi colored lights lighting up the sky.... Still have debris piles scattered around eastern Augusta..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEATHER53 Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 The rain all of it all the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 The rain was the story of the year, but the windstorm was the highlight event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozz Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 Probably the March snowstorm. But the big rain storms and the early March windstorm were also very impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GATECH Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 Had to be that one sunny Saturday in late June where I actually could use my pool without fear of being rained on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeddins42 Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 The F1 Tornado that went down my street and demolished my neighborhood in Mt Airy on November 2nd. Pretty intense. Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakkelWx Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 Definitely the beginning of September lightning storms. I remember lightning striking 100 feet away every 10 seconds or so, insane... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George BM Posted January 6, 2019 Author Share Posted January 6, 2019 1 hour ago, WxWatcher007 said: I totally forgot about the wind storm. Was I out of town? Is there a thread? Yes you were out of town. You were chasing the snowy part of the storm up north. IIRC, I believe t'was the storm where your girlfriend made you miss out on experiencing 42" of snow. March 1st-2nd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GATECH Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 2 hours ago, GATECH said: Had to be that one sunny Saturday in late June where I actually could use my pool without fear of being rained on. On a serious note the wind event in March was tops, however the snow on March 21 and in November were cool, mostly because the day after those events I was traveling to the Caribbean the next day (a cruise in March and to the Cayman Islands in November). Weird to go from cold and snow to sun and flip flops in 24 hrs. I am accepting donations for a trip to Hawaii if anyone wants to contribute, I am sure the snow gods would reward us with a HECS the day before I was to leave!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GramaxRefugee Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 I sure didn't forget the windstorm; power out 5 days. And, it wins my vote because most of the intense rain/flooding stayed just out of my area. (I said intense; not annoying) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
09-10 analogy Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 Windstorm areawide, but to be parochial about it, it was one of the August cloudbursts, which prompted water to flow like a little Chatooga River in places that I hadn’t seen in the 16 years I‘ve lived in this neighborhood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Pimpernel Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 Gotta go with the early March wind storm in terms of a single stand-out area-wide event. The total precipitation through the year would also be up there, as that was also record-breaking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillvilleWx Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 Unfortunately, it was not in the forum, but the severe storm I drove through in Arkansas on the way to Texas was wicked. Never seen rain reduce visibility under 100 feet before. I was doing 40 in a 75 along with many others. Lightning strikes constant and some pea sized hail. Parked at a rest stop after we exited the cell and looked at radar. Sure enough, 65 dBZ over the highway basically not moving. Pure pulse severe, but with tropical like PWAT's, it was intense as I've seen. The southeast is something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowzone Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Tornadoes from the remnants of Hurricane Florence in the Richmond area on Sept 17. A trying afternoon and early evening for our School Division, as middle schools had just dismissed when the first warning was posted in our County (Henrico). Some students sheltered at schools, but many buses were on the road. We radioed drivers to seek shelter, but some kept on dropping off students. Final buses got off the road at 8:30 pm after kids stayed in school shelters until 6:30. https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2018/09/18/tornado-swarm-ripped-through-richmond-florence-passed-through-monday-heres-what-happened/?utm_term=.8f00225b6a5e Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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