OT-Historic Blizzard on the way this weekend

Donkey McDonkerton · Post #61 » by **Donkey McDonkerton** » Fri Feb 5, 2010 3:43 pm

Let the snow begin...

Good thing I built Snowahs Ark last night

Post #62 » by **jmrosenth** » Fri Feb 5, 2010 4:18 pm

The massive storms I remember - 96, 2003, & 2009 - were all over the weekend. Even the big storm that I experienced while in Chicago (1999, 2nd biggest storm on record there) was over a weekend. And now potentially this one...just pretty odd.

Donkey McDonkerton · Post #63 » by **Donkey McDonkerton** » Fri Feb 5, 2010 4:25 pm

I'm going to try and take Snowahs Ark to the game on Saturday

BanndNDC · Post #64 » by **BanndNDC** » Fri Feb 5, 2010 5:47 pm

jmrosenth wrote:The massive storms I remember - 96, 2003, & 2009 - were all over the weekend. Even the big storm that I experienced while in Chicago (1999, 2nd biggest storm on record there) was over a weekend. And now potentially this one...just pretty odd.

believe it or not there might actually be a scientific reason for this (and it's not just anecdotal memory). evidently it all has to do with the workweek.

cant find the original article from Nature so this summary will have to do.
http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/199807 ... _sys.shtml

but wait, there seems to also be a study saying the opposite
http://www.livescience.com/environment/ ... -rain.html

dame you science!

(didnt the '96 storm happen on sunday or monday? i remember deciding to go back to school a day early and then being pissed off because i missed the entire storm and would have been "stuck" for a week if i followed the original plan.)

ZonkertheBrainless · Post #65 » by **ZonkertheBrainless** » Sat Feb 6, 2010 12:51 am

So how close are we to a record for winter snow?

Donkey McDonkerton · Post #66 » by **Donkey McDonkerton** » Sat Feb 6, 2010 2:06 am

ZonkertheBrainless wrote:So how close are we to a record for winter snow?

For the entire winter? Avg I think is like 17" we're way over that

Donkey McDonkerton · Post #67 » by **Donkey McDonkerton** » Sat Feb 6, 2010 2:09 am

Avg by month is something like

Jan 5.3
Feb 5.3
Mar 2.1
Nov .8
Dec- 3.1

We've already had a few biggggggg ones

Ji · Post #68 » by Ji » Sat Feb 6, 2010 3:40 am

25-35 inches now is my forecast and someone may see 40

Donkey McDonkerton · Post #69 » by **Donkey McDonkerton** » Sat Feb 6, 2010 3:47 am

Ji wrote:25-35 inches now is my forecast and someone may see 40

THATS WHAT SHE SAID

ZonkertheBrainless · Post #70 » by **ZonkertheBrainless** » Sat Feb 6, 2010 3:51 am

Apparently we've had 24 inches so far, and I the most snow ever for a winter was, according to the post, the winter of 1898-99, that had 54.4 inches. So we have 30.4 inches to go to have the most snow ever.

Donkey McDonkerton · Post #71 » by **Donkey McDonkerton** » Sat Feb 6, 2010 3:55 am

ZonkertheBrainless wrote:Apparently we've had 24 inches so far, and I the most snow ever for a winter was, according to the post, the winter of 1898-99, that had 54.4 inches. So we have 30.4 inches to go to have the most snow ever.

1929 had 28 inches in one storm

ZonkertheBrainless · Post #72 » by **ZonkertheBrainless** » Sat Feb 6, 2010 12:30 pm

DC has had 15 inches OF SNOW (geeze you guys) as of 1:15 am this morning...

Post #73 » by **miller31time** » Sat Feb 6, 2010 2:56 pm

This is insane. It took me a whole minute just to open my front door this morning. My dog probably stands about 2ft tall (maybe more) and the snow completely blanketed her.

The Blizzard of 2010 has arrived.

ZonkertheBrainless · Post #74 » by **ZonkertheBrainless** » Sat Feb 6, 2010 3:07 pm

American University reports 19.5 inches as of 7 am...

evilempire · Post #75 » by **evilempire** » Sat Feb 6, 2010 4:42 pm

Somewhere above 20" here so far. I'm in Brookland - some guy 4 blocks from me just had his roof start to collapse from the snow! Taking back all the times I cursed my very slanted roof while i was cleaning out the gutters.

Liverbird · Post #76 » by **Liverbird** » Sat Feb 6, 2010 5:18 pm

Snowmageddon Snowball Fight 2pm Dupont Circle people!

mohammed10 · Post #77 » by **mohammed10** » Sun Feb 7, 2010 3:59 pm

Leapin' Lizard wrote:Snowmageddon Snowball Fight 2pm Dupont Circle people!

Don't forget to invite the undercover cops!

:rockon:

Donkey McDonkerton · Post #78 » by **Donkey McDonkerton** » Sun Feb 7, 2010 4:19 pm

mohammed10 · Post #79 » by **mohammed10** » Sun Feb 7, 2010 5:49 pm

^^^

Is that at the Donk house?

Regardless, nice...

Donkey McDonkerton · Post #80 » by **Donkey McDonkerton** » Sun Feb 7, 2010 6:20 pm

naw....dont have those skills