I'm finishing up my morning coffee and contemplating the magnitude of the shoveling job ahead of me. It looks like we have 7-8" of snow on the ground but it's tough to tell given the drifting caused by the winds. According to radar the snow should stop in the next few minutes and then....boots and shovel!
Despite the outcries from snow lovers that we haven't have a good snow here for a while I beg to differ. Here in northern Virginia I seem to remember us have decent snows (6" or more) every 3-5 years, so I went back to the Sterling WFO archives and this is what I found for monthly snow totals at Reagan National Airport:
Feb '79 (President's Day storm) 30.6"
Jan '82 15.3"
Feb '83 21.0"
Jan '85 10.0"
Feb '86 12.9"
Jan '87 20.8" Feb '87 10.3"
Jan '88 13.1"
Mar '93 15.5" (at Dulles Airport)
Jan '96 23.8" Feb '96 15.2"
Jan '00 14.5"
Feb '03 28.7"
Feb '06 8.8"
Thus, a Mar 09 "big snow" fits in with the overall pattern, altho' I'm not sure why National Airport shows very little snow in Mar '93 for the big storm then. I seem to remember at least a foot of snow or so, but the airport may have had more ice.
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Here a bit south - Colonial Beach - We have at least 6 inches and the drifts are higher. The town was out plowing last night and let me tell you, that was a rare sight! It is lightly snowing here right now.
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