DCA and BWI Records

[WXBUFFJIM]

The following shows the wettest years ever for both BWI Airport near Baltimore, MD and DCA Reagan National Arpt in Washington DC.

BWI WETTEST YEARS

1. 1889: 62.35"
2. 2003: 61.88"
3. 1979: 58.98"
4. 1996: 58.31"
5. 1952: 56.57"

DCA WETTEST YEARS

1. 1889: 61.33"
2. 2003: 60.23"
3. 1878: 60.09"
4. 1886: 58.17"
5. 1948: 57.54"


Some broken records potentially up in DC and especially Baltimore before the end of this month. That's a statement isn't it?

Jim

[Anonymous]

I could be very seriously flawed here in my reasoning, but I believe that the fact that northern Virginia has experienced so many one, two, and three inch rain events all year long would indicate that we may very well have a few equivalent snow events this winter. This reasoning leads me to believe that we could have a few one and two foot snows, and even a three-foot snow here. We have had a history of these heavy precipitation events all year long, and unless there is a strong probability for the winter over the Mid Atlantic to dry out significantly over the next 3 months, I do believe that the next 2 to three months will witness a very heavy pounding of the Mid Atlantic and Northeastern states by repeated heavy snows, some of which may be record amounts of snow for a single storm. I do remind all our members here that the Northeast already seen very heavy snows this month. It may be a harbinger of things to come.

When the Eastern US has witnessed a year in which anywhere from 62 to nearly 70 inches of rainfall was measured in places which average about 42 inches per year, and there is no forecast appreciable drying trend for the next 3 months, I would think that this post is no mere -removed- from a person such as myself who is certainly clinically obsessed with crippling snows just so he can go walking around looking at 35-foot-tall plowed snowpiles while blasting Christian worship songs at full blast on a souped-up CD player with studio-grade headphones. I believe I stand at least a 50 to 60 percent chance at being right, and I certainly hope to God that I am right!!! I want my crippling heavy 3 foot snow with 25-foot drifts!!! And I want frigid cold weather for weeks afterward so that there is little or no melting so I can enjoy my jebwalks looking at the snow, and I want to fully enjoy the unique experience of living in a place which I fully understand has no chance at all of ever being able to even begin to cope with such a monstrous snowfall, which would certainly shut us down for two weeks to a month.

I hope it is, because this particular 'snow goose' is looking forward to some snowy gifts this winter!!!!!!


BRING IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


-SnowBlitzJEB