Windy Wednesday January 31, 2008

The cold front that swept across the state on Wednesday produced strong winds from the mountains to the coast. The peak wind gust at BWI-Marshall was 49 mph and here at our weather station on T.V. Hill in northwest Baltimore we had a gust to 43 mph at 9:48 a.m.
Tom Tasselmyer

Tornado Producing Blizzard January 30, 2008

Low pressure over northern Michigan late Tuesday evening is sweeping a strong cold front through the midwest. The front has produced some wild weather as bitterly cold arctic air slams into unseasonably mild, spring-like air over the Mississippi valley. Severe thunderstorms rumbled ahead of the front Tuesday afteroon with reports [...]

Historic Snowfall January 28, 2008

It was known as the Knickerbocker Storm and it hit the Baltimore-Washington area on January 27-29. The following is a description of the storm taken from the archives of the National Weather Service Office at Sterling, Virginia.
John Collins————-January 27-29, 1922: Exactly 150 years after the Washington and Jefferson Storm, a powerful nor’easter brought the deepest [...]

Winter Retreat? January 28, 2008

A few days into 2008 everyone was wondering if winter would ever arrive. Persistent cold weather had yet to move in and snow was not an issue. 11 of the first 14 days of January recorded high temperatures that were above the 30 year seasonal average. Two of those days reached 70 for the high.
Cold [...]

Mid Atlantic Snowcover January 25, 2008

On Thursday, January 24, a weather disturbance spun up off the Mid Atlantic coast. It produced light snow fall on the Maryland-Delaware-Virginia Eastern Shore. The GOES visable satellite picture below taken late Friday morning, January 25 clearly shows the snow on the ground on the Eastern Shore and southern New Jersey coast. There is also [...]

The 30 Below Club! January 25, 2008

Back on the 3rd of January I posted the locations in northern New England that had joined this winter’s 20 Below Club…official weather stations that had dropped to 20 below zero or colder. Three weeks later some towns in the upper midwest have taken it a bit further and so…here is the 30 Below [...]

Off Shore Low Brushes Eastern Shore January 25, 2008

What a difference a few miles can make with weather systems in the mid Atlantic! Just as the computer models were forecasting, low pressure formed off the North Carolina coast in the early morning of Thursday and tracked northeast to a position east of the Delmarva Thursday evening. And, as is always the [...]

Thursday Snow Scenario…11pm update January 24, 2008

A strong cold front is marching east of Chicago this evening and will push into the mid Atlantic states on Thursday. As the front nears the coast, low pressure is expected to develop near the North Carolina outer banks and track northeast to a position off the Delmarva Thursday night. If the coastal low [...]

Clipper Snow Possible January 23, 2008

Another surge of cold air will move south from Canada into the upper midwest on Wednesday. Low pressure developing on the leading edge of the cold air mass is expected to track through the mid Atlantic states Thursday afternoon and intensify as it moves east of the Delmarva Thursday night. A 150 mph jet stream [...]

Monday Record Breaker? January 21, 2008

Arctic air now has a solid grip on the Mid Atlantic Region. Sunday was raw with daytime temperatures stuck in the low 20s. The Sunday high was 34, recorded just after midnight. The low around daybreak was 19 but with falling evening temperatures the actual low for the day will be recorded just before midnight.
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