Let it snow… let it snow… let it snow…biggest snowstorm since 1922, and still not over.
From the New York Times, a crippled government. Even the post office gave up.
Capital Is Crippled as Blizzard Continues
A winter storm continued its blizzard rage in some parts of the Mid-Atlantic region on Saturday morning, dumping nearly two feet of wet, heavy snow that cut power to about 200,000 residents, caused the roof of a private jet hangar to collapse at Washington Dulles International Airport and forced the nation’s capital into quiet hibernation.
All postal operations in the Washington area, including the suburbs in Northern Virginia and Maryland were canceled on Saturday.
Full story at NYT here
CBS news calls the storm “epic”. See video report below.
From NOAA/NWS
…EXTREMELY DANGEROUS WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS CONTINUE THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR THE BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON REGION…EASTERN
PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA…AND NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY…
…BLIZZARD CONDITIONS ONGOING IN SOUTHERN MARYLAND…
…POISED TO SET ALL-TIME STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL RECORD FOR
BALTIMORE…
BLIZZARD WARNINGS CONTINUE UNTIL 10 PM FOR MARYLAND EAST OF THE
INTERSTATE 95 CORRIDOR BETWEEN BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON DC AND WEST
OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY. WINTER STORM WARNINGS FOR HEAVY SNOW
CONTINUE ELSEWHERE ACROSS THE REGION UNTIL 10 PM.
AT 11:45 AM THIS MORNING…WEATHER OBSERVERS AT BALTIMORE`S THURGOOD
MARSHALL BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT REPORTED 26.5
INCHES OF SNOW ON THE GROUND. THIS IS ONLY 0.3 INCHES SHY OF THE
26.8 INCH RECORD FROM THE PRESIDENTS DAY FEBRUARY 2003 STORM. THE
AIRPORT IS FORECAST TO HAVE AN ADDITIONAL 3 TO 6 INCHES BEFORE THE
STORM ENDS THIS EVENING. A RECORD REPORT WILL BE ISSUED WHEN THE
RECORD IS REACHED.
GENERALLY…24 TO 32 INCHES OF SNOW HAVE FALLEN ACROSS NORTH OF A
LINE BETWEEN ANNAPOLIS MD TO WASHINGTON DC TO PETERSBURG WV. SOUTH
OF THIS LINE TO CHARLOTTESVILLE VA…APPROXIMATELY 14 TO 20 INCHES
HAVE FALLEN.
AN ADDITIONAL 4 TO 8 INCHES WILL FALL ACROSS THE REGION BEFORE THE
SNOW TAPERS TO FLURRIES LATER THIS EVENING. AREAS SOUTH AND EAST OF
BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON WILL SEE ACCUMULATIONS AT THE HIGHER END
OF THIS RANGE…ALONG WITH WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH CREATING BLIZZARD
CONDITIONS.
Blizzard Warning
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC 1002 AM EST SAT FEB 6 2010 DCZ001-MDZ007-011-013-014-062315- /O.CON.KLWX.BZ.W.0001.000000T0000Z-100207T0300Z/ DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-HARFORD-SOUTHERN BALTIMORE-PRINCE GEORGES- ANNE ARUNDEL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WASHINGTON...BALTIMORE...ANNAPOLIS 1002 AM EST SAT FEB 6 2010 ...BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST THIS EVENING... A BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST THIS EVENING. * PRECIPITATION TYPE...MODERATE SNOW. * ACCUMULATIONS...AN ADDITIONAL 4 TO 8 INCHES TODAY WITH TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 20 TO 30 INCHES. * TIMING...MODERATE INTENSITY SNOW BANDS WILL MOVE SOUTHEASTWARD THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. SNOW WILL BECOME LIGHTER THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL TAPER OFF BY EARLY THIS EVENING. * VISIBILITIES...VISIBILITIES AS LOW AS ONE-QUARTER TO ONE-HALF MILE ARE EXPECTED THROUGH EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. * TEMPERATURES...TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN NEAR 30 DEGREES THIS MORNING AND WILL FALL INTO THE MID TO UPPER 20S TONIGHT. * WINDS...NORTHEAST WINDS 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 25 MPH THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE COAST. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... ALTHOUGH WIND SPEEDS WILL DECREASE THROUGH THE DAY...VISIBILITIES WILL BE AT OR BELOW ONE-QUARTER MILE AT TIMES IN MODERATE SNOW... WHICH WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY DANGEROUS. A BLIZZARD WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. FALLING AND BLOWING SNOW WITH STRONG WINDS AND POOR VISIBILITIES ARE LIKELY.
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Well, at least this Winter’s weather is conforming to NOAA’s prediction:
“The forecast for the Northeast, the world’s largest heating oil market, will have equal chances of above-normal, near-normal, or below-normal temperatures and precipitation.”
Once again, this is why you should be taking seriously this NWF report:
Global Warming Bringing More Oddball Winter Weather – http://bit.ly/99i0A8 – also endorsed on the NRDC blog http://bit.ly/bLbjMj
What’s missing from NOAA’s forecast:
The Weather is beyond Man’s ability to control, though he may temporarily alter it.
Gore’s Gaia is getting pounded.
Ya think Washington will get the hint?
go mother nature, i hope our government is closed for a month.
We have gotten 20 inches where I live and it is still going strong. I hope DC gets plastered. It will delay the cap-and-trade bill a little further.
What a lovely ”Present” for Washington !
I cannot remember if the White House has one way glass? Perhaps they don’t know?
Well, no policy change, a new law and a couple of trillion Dollars will assure that it won’t happen again.
Let it snow!
Er, dude? I’m here in Manhattan and there’s been NO SNOW WHATSOEVER. There’s no snow north of here — y’know, in upstate New York, where it’s supposed to snow a lot in February? And in New England, ditto?
I know that the point you want to make is IDIOT LIBERALS THINK IT’S GETTING LESS WINTRY WHEN IT’S ACTUALLY GETTING MORE WINTRY!!!!1!!!!1!!!
But, in fact, it’s snowy where it usually isn’t and it’s not snowy where it usually is. Which just means the weather patterns are a bit askew.
REPLY: You are completely out of bounds. This post reported only what was going on using news sources and NOAA/NWS. There’s no editorialization. – Anthony
FergalR (10:34:46) :
Well, at least this Winter’s weather is conforming to NOAA’s prediction:
“The forecast for the Northeast, the world’s largest heating oil market, will have equal chances of above-normal, near-normal, or below-normal temperatures and precipitation.”
_________________________________________________________________________
LOL! You’ve got to admire someone with the cojones to go out on a limb like that, calling it as they see it.
On a more serious note, best of luck to all of our fellow citizens, visitors and illegal aliens caught in this nasty bit of AGW-induced erratic weather.
Congress excepted, of course. 😀
Here in downtown Baltimore, we have 2′ on the ground now and expecting almost another foot, although it has let up. Main streets are passable, but, only plows and emergency vehicles are out. It’s as bad as the previous worst blizzard (2003) and probably worse because the snow is much heavier.
I’m taking a bike trip up to Charles Village later today (about 5 miles). I did so during the last blizzard and will do so again. A bike with knobby tires is really the way to go. You can portage around snow drifts & use tire tracks from the plows on the main roads.
Is that the howling blizzard wind or the banshee wail of yet another warmist trying to put an AGW spin on the wrong kind of climate change?
A flurry of weather outside the recent range of climate makes this weather climate. After all weather is real and climate is abstract statistical math at best and sly statistical manNipulations at worst. I guess this is one decline they can’t hide. [:)]
I’m sure glad I missed this one. A few years back I enjoyed a mild DC winter.
http://pathstoknowledge.net/?s=mann
http://pathstoknowledge.net/?s=climate+weather
My thoughts are with the people in rural areas suffering power cuts. I hope everyone stays safe and warm.
Kyle:
BS (Bad Science). Warm air over the warm ocean in El Nino. More evaporation. Warm wet air meets cold continental air –> Mucho snow. Nothing to do with global warming, just weather.
Looks like Punxsutawney Phil was right!
Ecotretas
David (10:54:36) :
It should freeze the cap-and-trade bill into the next Ice Age.
It’s “Sno Go” on the Goreacle Show.
I just spoke to my mom who is about 100 miles East of DC. The snowplow is stuck about a block up the road. She has the driveway dug out (not bad for someone in their 70’s!) and the snow on either side of the driveway is up to her chin where she stacked it from the driveway.
She reports temperatures in the low 20’s with “snow blowing sideways” and visibility “about a block” .
kyle (10:47:22) :
Once again, this is why you should be taking seriously this NWF report:
Global Warming Bringing More Oddball Winter Weather
Oh, it’s not all that oddball. Joe Bastardi and Joe D’Aleo both predicted a winter storm track in the mid-Atlantic, and cold but low-precip in the northeast.
Blame it on the ocean oscillations, and you get a weather pattern like a few decades ago. Throw in a little luck and you get a record storm or record year.
Up here in New Hampshire I have 3″ of snow on the ground, and have had only two storms with more than 6″ this season. Very sad. Might get some on Wednesday.
I consider it an investment – if it helps to bury Cap and Trade legislation, it’s worth your inconvenience to me. 🙂
Oh good. You referred to NWF articles by Amanda Staudt:
http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/Media-Center/Faces-of-NWF/Amanda-Staudt.aspx
Amanda Staudt
Climate Scientist
Headquarters – Reston, VA
I hope she like shoveling snow!
Now that is global warming I can believe in . . .
What’s the President doing in all of this?
From: http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2010/02/05/snowstorm-mid-atlantic-scrambling-staples/
The blizzard did not keep President Obama from traveling a few blocks through deserted streets in a motorcade of sport utility vehicles from the White House to a nearby hotel to speak at the Democratic National Committee’s winter meeting.
In his opening remarks, Obama thanked the activists for being willing to brave the blizzard which he referred to as “Snowmageddon.”
… further evidence that:
• there is a god
• he has a great sense of humor
• the New World Order will fall
I have seen 12in of snow bring Washington DC to it’s knees. In the 1970s I was stuck there for three days at Bolling AFB with the power off, no TV and no food except for chips and cookies from a snack machine that did not require power to operate. I spend the time writing my first magazine article for a computer magazine sitting by the window. After reading the articles in the one magazine I had in my briefcase twice, decide I could do a better job explaining the technology. When I got back to Offutt AFB I sold the article to the magazine and launched my freelance writing career. Do not let a little snow storm get you down, there is an opportunity in every crisis.
To ecliptic….
I hit the wotzupwiddat bookmark in the hope this story was there.. with the express intention of saying precisely what you said!
But you beat me to it.
Grrrr!
😉
About 24″ in one Philly suburb, but what’s REALLY weird is that a boatlaod of migrating robins parked themselves in the trees and bushes behind my house.
I’m talking hundreds of the big birds.
(American robins, not British ones, actually red breasted thrushes)
http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=324572&sc=79
Looks like winter is still normal in Newfie-land….
The snow hasn’t ‘hit’ Toronto yet (fingers crossed)…
Washington loons peeking out from under a blanket of snow; proof positive of the power of prayer! I’ll be taking requests.
Can’t we have another Greenpeace organized rally outside the Capitol to demand that DC shut down coal heat and electricity operations that powers the Capitol?
Nancy Pelosi missed the opportunity to address the “crowds” last year because of the snow.
Can’t we have a green power DC? Wind mills and solar power! That’s the way to go
– if you want to kill a lot of people for sure.
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