MN Transplant Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Fairfax County failed to pick up my leaves on time this year. I’m thinking that they are going to have a rough go of it if they try next week. Trying to find a good name for this soon-to-be-frozen pile. Leafburg? Rock Leafster? 1.94”, 52.9 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEATHER53 Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 I wish I had posted my notes from Tuesday that DC area would go 55-60 before frontal and Norfolk 70. I’m up to 52 after 46/47 most if afternoon Bob Ryan used to have in his Almanac a weather event for every day. One was “chickens froze in their tracks” and might we have that here??????? It will be a Great Obs thread posting the hourly drops. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEATHER53 Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 2 hours ago, MN Transplant said: I think Christmas Eve has a solid chance of being the coldest December day since 12/22-24/1989 (17/5, 22/7, 23/10). Really just needs to surpass 12/20/2004 (24/11). There was one other one and was it 83? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Looks like LWX upped the wind gusts for the NW suburbs to "up to 50mph" with the latest zone forecast product. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.J Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 47 and 2” of rain so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clskinsfan Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 7 minutes ago, WEATHER53 said: I wish I had posted my notes from Tuesday that DC area would go 55-60 before frontal and Norfolk 70. I’m up to 52 after 46/47 most if afternoon Bob Ryan used to have in his Almanac a weather event for every day. One was “chickens froze in their tracks” and might we have that here??????? It will be a Great Obs thread posting the hourly drops. I miss Bob Ryan. And George/Jim Vance/Wendy as well. NBC4 was THE SHIT in the DC area for decades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clskinsfan Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 4 minutes ago, WEATHER53 said: There was one other one and was it 83? Ha. Yeah. The greatest cold blast in Christmas history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEATHER53 Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 3 hours ago, MN Transplant said: More fun climo stats. There have been 68 days in DCA's climate record with a 40+ spread between high and low temps. Most of those are in the distant past. There have only been 5 cases in the past 40 years: 3/23/1994 - 83/39 1/19/1996 - 62/20 (the Potomac flood final push) 12/22/1998 - 67/24 4/8/2000 - 78/38 1/13/2018 - 62/21 We might be able to add to this list tomorrow if we can hold the 50s until midnight. And MN might not some of those be cold mornings but a much milder afternoon as opposed to arctic blast plummeting the high? I wonder if NWS has top 10 temperature drops for 1,3,6,12,24 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowenOutThere Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Over two inches of rain and it’s in the mid 40s, hopefully we can all pick up a coating of snow tomorrow with the frontal passage. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Here’s a random wunderground weather station from OH. Front should be passing through here soon. Will be fun to see the drop. https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KOHMARIO23 ETA: Blowing through there now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 8 minutes ago, WEATHER53 said: And Minmight not dime if those be cold lowsbut a much milder afternoon as opposed to arctic blast plummeting the high. I wonder if NWS has top 10 temperature drops for 1,3,6,12,24 hours. They probably do. The mesoscale models aren’t putting out massive short-term temp drops, though. Partially because we are going to step down to the low 40s before the front, and partially because the low level cold always takes it’s sweet time crossing the Apps. In the end, I think the daily number will look most impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEATHER53 Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 13 minutes ago, clskinsfan said: Ha. Yeah. The greatest cold blast in Christmas history. I was driving on the old Choptank River bridge around noon Christmas Day and it was about 20 with winds right up the river, most whitecaps I’ve ever seen on it, and as winds cranked to 50 the spray starting freezing on the road deck and they closed it and super salted it and reopened. I never saw that before or after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brianonymous Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Getting pretty breezy over here. 53f Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSSN+ Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 16 minutes ago, nj2va said: Here’s a random wunderground weather station from IN. Front should be passing through here soon. Will be fun to see the drop. https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KOHMARIO23 Here it comes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Man Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 1 minute ago, TSSN+ said: Here it comes Checking it out also 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clskinsfan Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 8 minutes ago, WEATHER53 said: I was driving on the old Choptank River bridge around noon Christmas Day and it was about 20 with winds right up the river, most whitecaps I’ve ever seen on it, and as winds cranked to 50 the spray starting freezing on the road deck and they closed it and super salted it and reopened. I never saw that before or after. That is insane. I love the Choptank. Best crabs on earth come from that river. And no one can even think about changing my mind on that. I am a torn individual. I live in the VA mountains during the winter. Which is usually amazing. I live in OC during the summer. Which is usually amazing. I got convinced as a young guy that there really isnt a better place to live than the Mid Atlantic. We have real seasons. All of us live 2 hours within the mountains or beach. All of us can get up in the morning and visit some of the finest museums in the world before noon. Then decide to be at the beach by dinner time. It is an amazing place to live. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 GFS has the front pushing through the metros right around 9a. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdhokie Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Made it to Deep Creek. I70/68 were well treated and tons of plows out. Didn't see any snow on the side of the road until just past Hagerstown. Had to shovel a couple inches of wet snow pack with a crust on top and bust up 1-2" of ice that was underneath from two weeks ago. A little concerned we won't be leaving on time to head west in the morning. Depends on how they treat the roads. Everything is just wet so far but some slick spots. Not gonna push it and just go with the flow. No way we will be on the road prior to the front coming through around 4AM. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CentralVaNATS Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Watching this drop.Sent from my SM-G998U using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 9 minutes ago, Solution Man said: Checking it out also Impressive temp drop. It was pretty cool to see winds go from the S at 3 mph jump to 10-20 mph from the W then NW as the temps started to crash. Down 10 degrees in like 10-15 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowGolfBro Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Fog has set in at Timberline. A little eerie knowing it will be below zero in like 12 hours 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pazzo83 Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Almost below freezing now at that Marion, OH station Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Man Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 9 minutes ago, nj2va said: Impressive temp drop. It was pretty cool to see winds go from the S at 3 mph jump to 10-20 mph from the W then NW as the temps started to crash. Down 10 degrees in like 10-15 minutes. Awesome to watch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtlanticWx Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 hrrr just keeps getting better and better for tomorrow. not sure why is there is some zr bc the whole column is below freezing so best to ignore that and think of it as snow 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDstorm Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 30 minutes ago, nj2va said: GFS has the front pushing through the metros right around 9a. It appears that the GFS has not waffled at all this week in its depiction of the anafrontal snow............said no one. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUsedToHateCold Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 10 minutes ago, AtlanticWx said: hrrr just keeps getting better and better for tomorrow. not sure why is there is some zr bc the whole column is below freezing so best to ignore that and think of it as snow Really need what the GFS was spitting out a couple of days ago for my location (a nice straight wall of precip on a N/S axis). This just looks too dried up. Other models are even drier. At this point I'd take .25 of accumulation, but even that is probably not happening. Sigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtlanticWx Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 18 minutes ago, IUsedToHateCold said: Really need what the GFS was spitting out a couple of days ago for my location (a nice straight wall of precip on a N/S axis). This just looks too dried up. Other models are even drier. At this point I'd take .25 of accumulation, but even that is probably not happening. Sigh. how is that dry lmao, literal 40 dbz snow on changeover. if you can't enjoy that, you should move to buffalo bc your expectations are way too high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUsedToHateCold Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 3 minutes ago, AtlanticWx said: how is that dry lmao, literal 40 dbz snow on changeover. if you can't enjoy that, you should move to buffalo bc your expectations are way too high. Yeah it's going to melt though. Will be pretty to watch briefly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interstate Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Still a balmy 51.8° In 21057 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherman Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Yeah it's going to melt though. Will be pretty to watch briefly. Not for a few days, at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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