DC Area Global Warming Protest Weather.

[Ed Mahmoud]

The snow should be winding down before the action starts.



Last hours heavy snow at Reagan/Washington National has let up to light snow. The temp is up to 23ºF. Forecast temps into the upper 20s, but the global warming protesters better dress warm, winds near 20 mph will add to the chill.


Will the Global Warming protest in Washington, D.C. be canceled because of snow?

[Ed Mahmoud]

Dr. Hanson and Greenpeace to lead protest against global warming and coal power today in DC.

[Squarethecircle]

We've got around five and a half inches here, and the roads are covered about the same, so anyone without a four wheel drive is not getting out of their neighborhood.

[Ed Mahmoud]

We've got around five and a half inches here, and the roads are covered about the same, so anyone without a four wheel drive is not getting out of their neighborhood.

Drove through DC once, very confusing, but I did see the Capitol. Anyway, no expert, but don't they have a subway system that would be immune from snow?


Reminds me of visiting my Grandmother in North Quincy, MA, who lived across the street from surface level rapid transit tracks (a modern suburban extension of a 1927 subway line), and in heavy snow, the intermittent breaking of contact with the electrified third rail because of the snow would cause brilliant flashes of blue arc light, something like transformer flashes.

But if most of the lines are underground, I'd assume they'd be ok.

[Ed Mahmoud]

Light snow, 21ºF and winds gusting to 40 mph now at DCA!

[Squarethecircle]

The subway systems going out to Suburbia are all in road centers and above ground. Most DC lines are underground, as well as commercial centers. I think the big problem will be getting to the subway.

And the snow continues to fall.

[breeze]

Last night, I was laughing and reading the Capitol Weather Gang's blog
at the Washington Post online - people were whining and saying "BUST!"
because it wasn't doing what had been forecast (yet) - calling the mets
a bunch of fakes, etc... no one is whining over there, today! A lot of folks
had given up on the storm before it got there.

Check out these wintry pics from the Washington area:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2009/03/02/GA2009030201257.html?hpid=artslot

[Squarethecircle]

Last night, I was laughing and reading the Capitol Weather Gang's blog
at the Washington Post online - people were whining and saying "BUST!"
because it wasn't doing what had been forecast (yet) - calling the mets
a bunch of fakes, etc... no one is whining over there, today! A lot of folks
had given up on the storm before it got there.

Check out these wintry pics from the Washington area:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2009/03/02/GA2009030201257.html?hpid=artslot

I had the same feeling. I stayed up until about midnight, however, and then it began to really kick up. We had about six inches.