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Virginia Memories--Winter Ones

#1 Postby donsutherland1 » Sun Feb 08, 2004 10:32 pm

<img src="http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a10000/3a17000/3a17800/3a17897r.jpg">
Old Va. farmer coming from mill. Rappahannock Station, VA.
Edwin Forbes (January 14, 1864)

<i>January 27: A snow which began in the night...kept constantly at it the whole day with the wind hard & cold from the northward.

January 28: The same snow continued all last night and all this day with equal violence the wind being very cold and hard from the northward--drifting the snow into high banks.</i>
--George Washington's Diary on the Washington-Jefferson Snowstorm of January 27-28, 1772

March 16-18, 1841: Virginia Tidewater region buried under up to 30" of snow.

<i>Very cold all day with spits of snow and the wind blowing hard at NoWest</i>
--George Washington's Diary on the weather at Mt. Vernon, VA on May 4, 1774
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#2 Postby Chris the Weather Man » Sun Feb 08, 2004 10:47 pm

Don, That is amazing........ What do you get all this information?
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#3 Postby FLguy » Sun Feb 08, 2004 11:14 pm

great info don. and mark my words, it happened once, it will happen again, its just a matter of time.
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#4 Postby Anonymous » Sun Feb 08, 2004 11:28 pm

Excellent Post Don-----I appreciate it!! :) WOW, Tidewater VA buried under 30 inches of snow!


-Jeb!!! :)
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#5 Postby donsutherland1 » Mon Feb 09, 2004 1:09 am

Chris,

I'm familiar with many resources, some of which contain weather information e.g., Washington's Diary.
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#6 Postby donsutherland1 » Mon Feb 09, 2004 1:10 am

FLguy,

I fully agree with you.
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Re: Virginia Memories--Winter Ones

#7 Postby donsutherland1 » Thu Feb 12, 2004 11:17 pm

Another Virginia Memory:

<b>May 10-11, 1878:</b>
<i>Richmond:</i> "The weather...has been quite cold in this section. In the northwestern part of the State, along the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, the thermometer was below the freezing point last night [May 11] and ice formed in various localities."

<b>Source:</b> "The Crops Frost-Bitten," <i>The New York Times</i>, May 14, 1878.
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#8 Postby Anonymous » Thu Feb 12, 2004 11:20 pm

Thanks for the memories, Don.


In all my life I have not ever encountered anything nearly as satisfying as snow and especially as fun as walking on the ICE :)

Bring on that SNOW and bring on that ICE, ICE, BABY!!! Man, I LOVE that song, Ice, Ice Baby!!!!


-Jeb
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Re: Virginia Memories--Winter Ones

#9 Postby donsutherland1 » Thu Feb 12, 2004 11:32 pm

More evidence that it can snow in Virginia:

<img src="http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/thc/5a36000/5a36200/5a36201r.jpg">
Snow-covered Memorial Bridge, Virginia Side (1932)

Photographer: Theodor Horydczak
Source: Library of Congress
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Re: Virginia Memories--Winter Ones

#10 Postby Anonymous » Thu Feb 12, 2004 11:58 pm

donsutherland1 wrote:More evidence that it can snow in Virginia:

<img src="http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/thc/5a36000/5a36200/5a36201r.jpg">
Snow-covered Memorial Bridge, Virginia Side (1932)

Photographer: Theodor Horydczak
Source: Library of Congress


Oh how I long to enjoy a nice, long jebwalk in that snow!! To spend long hours savoring each and every shovelful of snow! To spend hours blasting Billy Joel's "Allentown" while walking past very tall snow mounds piled up by mechanized earth-moving equipment because there is so much snow that ordinary plows just can't handle it and break down from the strain of trying to bull through huge snowdrifts!

Just to happily slide on ice and roll around in deep snow and to know it is truly COLD and not another scorching hot blowtorch day like this upcoming Saturday is going to be in N VA with highs in the lower 60s and bright, undiluted sunshine that will burn away all of the rest of my precious snow that is left.

If only we could have one last deep 12 to 18-inch snow with a week to 2 weeks of highs in the mid 30s and lows in the 20s so I can enjoy my precious snow jebwalks once again!! Just a few more precious snow-related jebwalks!!!

Why is that so difficult this season?



-Jeb, dying for a snowy jebwalk.........
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Re: Virginia Memories--Winter Ones

#11 Postby donsutherland1 » Fri Feb 13, 2004 11:54 am

<b>May 22, 1883:</b> Up to a foot fo snow fell between Lynchburg and Clifton Forge, VA. The weather was "exceedingly cold."

<B>Source:</b> "Damage to Crops," <i>The New York Times</i>, May 24, 1883.
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#12 Postby JCT777 » Fri Feb 13, 2004 1:24 pm

Thanks for the info, Don. I think it's pretty neat to read about extreme events in past winters.
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#13 Postby Dave C » Fri Feb 13, 2004 5:20 pm

I think Jeb needed that to lift her spirit. :D That last storm teased her a bit as well as many looking for a good snow in NC and Virginia. Gearing up here locally for some possible "ocean affect snow" Sun and Mon, I guess it's better than nothing :) :) :) . My 100th post, I'm now a snow flurry! :lol: :lol:
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