Kevin Reilly Posted Thursday at 06:54 PM Share Posted Thursday at 06:54 PM 2 hours ago, Scraff said: Sunshine flurries! Look for a snowbow! Welcome to Spring!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClimateChanger Posted Thursday at 07:11 PM Share Posted Thursday at 07:11 PM While it wasn't quite a redux of February 1798 for Norfolk, yesterday was the 8th highest calendar day snowfall on record since October 1, 1890. And the eighth time on record with 10 or more inches of snow in a single calendar day. In 1798, old records suggest as much as 60 inches fell on February 4, followed by another 40 inches on the 14th, with the Norfolk Herald and New York Spectator indicating snow depths as high as six feet on the level. Excerpt from "Why the Weather?" by Charles Frankin Brooks (1924). More insight on the February 14, 1798 storm: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailylurker Posted Thursday at 07:17 PM Share Posted Thursday at 07:17 PM 3 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said: While it wasn't quite a redux of February 1798 for Norfolk, yesterday was the 8th highest calendar day snowfall on record since 1890. In 1798, old records suggest as much as 60 inches fell on February 4, followed by another 40 inches on the 14th, with the Norfolk Herald and New York Spectator indicating snow depths as high as six feet on the level. Excerpt from "Why the Weather?" by Charles Frankin Brooks (1924). Holy crap! Is this true? 40" overnight on top of 60"? Is their other records of this? I thought the 22" overnight in Annopoils during the winter of 1776 was a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowershoresadness Posted Thursday at 07:23 PM Share Posted Thursday at 07:23 PM 5 minutes ago, dailylurker said: Holy crap! Is this true? 40" overnight on top of 60"? Is their other records of this? I thought the 22" overnight in Annopoils during the winter of 1776 was a lot. Ji's great great great grandpa was pissed he got fringed 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchnick Posted Thursday at 07:32 PM Share Posted Thursday at 07:32 PM 7 minutes ago, Lowershoresadness said: Ji's great great great grandpa was pissed he got fringed He was more pissed that his daughter would have a great grandson the likes of JI. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClimateChanger Posted Thursday at 07:33 PM Share Posted Thursday at 07:33 PM 16 minutes ago, dailylurker said: Holy crap! Is this true? 40" overnight on top of 60"? Is their other records of this? I thought the 22" overnight in Annopoils during the winter of 1776 was a lot. From the January 1915 Edition of the Monthly Weather Review, which was also published by Charles Franklin Brooks. The origination of the claim comes from C. F. Volney's "A View of the Soil and Climate of the United States of America" which was based on his observations from 1795 to 1798. I can't find any other source for the February 4, 1798, but there are surviving newspaper records of the February 14, 1798 storm and it is noted in Ludlum's work from 1963. Per Ludlum, it was reported that up to four feet of snow fell in parts of coastal North Carolina. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlizzardNole Posted Thursday at 07:40 PM Share Posted Thursday at 07:40 PM Can you imagine how much we would lose our minds if that Norfolk thing happened in present time holy moly 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted Thursday at 07:42 PM Share Posted Thursday at 07:42 PM Warming up in the lodge. Wind chills are like -10. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtracker Posted Thursday at 07:52 PM Share Posted Thursday at 07:52 PM I'm unpinning this shit 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris78 Posted Thursday at 07:58 PM Share Posted Thursday at 07:58 PM 15 minutes ago, nj2va said: Warming up in the lodge. Wind chills are like -10. Looks fun! I'm heading out on Sunday for the day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted yesterday at 01:54 AM Share Posted yesterday at 01:54 AM Yall don’t understand why NWS issued the advisory. This storm deserved to be an official bust, but it fell apart outside 100 hours so they had to act so that it could qualify. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted yesterday at 02:08 AM Share Posted yesterday at 02:08 AM 6 hours ago, nj2va said: Warming up in the lodge. Wind chills are like -10. Which lift are you guys near? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTy Posted yesterday at 02:09 AM Share Posted yesterday at 02:09 AM 6 hours ago, dailylurker said: Holy crap! Is this true? 40" overnight on top of 60"? Is their other records of this? I thought the 22" overnight in Annopoils during the winter of 1776 was a lot. Norfolk is the new Mount Rainier. I'm taking the under on that account without significant proof. That is literally the equivalent of 20% of the annual snowfall at Paradise, Mt. Rainier in a few days...in Norfolk. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amped Posted yesterday at 04:03 AM Share Posted yesterday at 04:03 AM We should be iut enjoying the snow and the last 10 pages of this thread should be an argument on how DCA could possibly only have 17 when surrounding areas have 24. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailylurker Posted yesterday at 11:56 AM Share Posted yesterday at 11:56 AM 9 hours ago, IronTy said: Norfolk is the new Mount Rainier. I'm taking the under on that account without significant proof. That is literally the equivalent of 20% of the annual snowfall at Paradise, Mt. Rainier in a few days...in Norfolk. Yeah. Im having a hard time buying that too. Seem impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted yesterday at 12:26 PM Share Posted yesterday at 12:26 PM 10 hours ago, IronTy said: Norfolk is the new Mount Rainier. I'm taking the under on that account without significant proof. That is literally the equivalent of 20% of the annual snowfall at Paradise, Mt. Rainier in a few days...in Norfolk. https://glenallenweather.com/alink/18snow/snowmaps2/Great Atlantic coastal snowstorms.pdf https://www.glenallenweather.com/historylinks/history2/vawxhistory.pdf Quote Feb. 14, 1798: The Norfolk Herald on Feb. 17 and the New York Spectator on March 3 reported snow in Norfolk "in many places up to six feet deep," the greatest snowfall ever experienced. Some accounts claim that 40 inches of snow fell in one night in Norfolk and along the coast, but no snow fell 25 miles inland. Over northeast North Carolina, 16 inches of snow was reported. Wind blowing from the north to northwest off the Chesapeake Bay may have enhanced the snowfall in the Norfolk area, much like the winds blowing across Lake Erie produce "lake effect snow" in New York. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted yesterday at 01:46 PM Share Posted yesterday at 01:46 PM 11 hours ago, mattie g said: Which lift are you guys near? In this picture? We were up at the top of the mountain, I think near lift 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted yesterday at 02:49 PM Share Posted yesterday at 02:49 PM 1 hour ago, nj2va said: In this picture? We were up at the top of the mountain, I think near lift 4. Ah…I thought it was a picture from the lodge! We've stayed near Lift 7 the last couple years. Last year sucked, but this year it was truly ski in/ski out, which was awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nj2va Posted yesterday at 02:54 PM Share Posted yesterday at 02:54 PM 3 minutes ago, mattie g said: Ah…I thought it was a picture from the lodge! We've stayed near Lift 7 the last couple years. Last year sucked, but this year it was truly ski in/ski out, which was awesome. Oh great homes over there! Yeah I was saying to family visiting us for a long weekend that the conditions yesterday and amount of terrain opened was the best I've seen in years. Glad you didn't jinx it again 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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