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The Ledge Storm 19-20 Feb


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20 minutes ago, mitchnick said:

I vividly remember that storm living in Glen Burnie waiting for my house in Linthicum to be built. Law school friend's wife was an airline attendant and she worked the Sby TO BWI to Raleigh circuit throughout the day on a Dash8. She said they were flying out of BWI heading east to Sby and as soon as they were over the Chesapeake Bay they hit snow. I drove down to Gibson Island on the Chesapeake Bay that day and couldn't see the eastern shore which is otherwise clearly visible.  We had flurries in Glen Burnie and that was it. What a nutcracker that storm was and why I  remember it so vividly. Of course, my same law school friend who lives in Sby texted me multiple times already today for updates from me because he's a weenie too. Lol

We've endured a great deal of Heartbreak as winter enthusiasts living in the Mid-Atlantic. Hard to believe I had just turned 16 in January 1989. I can rember that bust so vividly as well. Were definitely getting old lol. The late 80's and early 90's were brutal. I lived a mile north of Beltway exit 20 which is roughly 3 miles north of where @nw baltimore wx currently lives. It a was a relative good spot for snow for the immediate metro area.

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17 minutes ago, Amped said:

Another similar setup that failed to produce was 3/24/06. You can see we had a closed 500mb low in the perfect spot but the confluence was too strong. Don't remember any snow from that setup. Maybe a couple inches in nc/va?

https://www.meteo.psu.edu/ewall/NARR/2006/us0324.php

If this is the one I’m thinking of, models also trended SE ~3 days out…. 

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Another similar setup that failed to produce was 3/24/06. You can see we had a closed 500mb low in the perfect spot but the confluence was too strong. Don't remember any snow from that setup. Maybe a couple inches in nc/va?
https://www.meteo.psu.edu/ewall/NARR/2006/us0324.php

Wow yea I see the similarities there to this one


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29 minutes ago, DDweatherman said:

Yeah this looks nothing like that. I have never been a fan of this TPV lobe floating over the upper MW and just like it hasn’t resulted in a storm to our south, can you find me an analog where it delivered a big snowstorm?  

HUGE snow...for us no.  To our NW yea March 2017.  There have been a few other storms, one of the ice storms in Feb 1994, One of the Feb snows in 2021 that crushed just to our north.  Here is an interesting thing... the CIPS analogs focus too much on the surface when there is a major anomaly there...and that is why today's analogs are all southern snowstorms that don't look anything like this at H5, but I clicked on the upper plains the day before our event when the TPV is breaking off there...and guess what the number one analog is...Jan 6 1996!  At H5 the similarity is there...the difference then was it dug all the way into the TN valley.  But that was a TPV split with a lobe dropping into the US and phasing with a wave like this.  

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34 minutes ago, HighStakes said:

My top 5 busts in no particular order except for 3/2001 which will always take top billing. I'm not including Boxing Day one because it was clear well in advance it was a fail.

3/2001

2/1989

12/30/2000

Early February 1985. Forecast was for rain changing to snow and 6-10 inches. It did changeover briefly ending up with an inch. There was also a moderate bust in January 1985 also. 

Superbowl Sunday 1986. Heavy rain was supposed to change to heavy snow. Changeover was brief only leaving putrid coating.

 

Honorable mention:

3/91

Early January 1988

3/1989

1/1984

1/1985

We used to get positive busts back then also... I remember a storm in 88 where they were saying 1-3" then rain and it never changed over and we got 10".  They got us to school in the snow expecting it to change to rain then took until well after dark to get us home even though they dismissed early.  

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