Thursday, March 15, 2007

My 1st Stab

I have e never forecasted snow this late in the season and the DC areas has not had a big accumulation of snow this late since March of 1993 but that was from the Super Storm Blizzard of 93. We did have a late snow in march 2003 and it did stick while it was snowing heavy in the morning. Dulles did get 2 inches on March 30 from only .69 qpf and temps were a bit warmer than they will be tomorrow during the height of the storm.

With 2-3 inches of QPF forecasted--here is my official forecast on this very wet and major winter storm for the northeast

DCA 1 inch
Dulles 3-5 inches
BWI 1-2 inches
HGR 4-6 inches

a general 3-5 inches for the NW suburbs---the further east--the more sleet rain mix. I do think DC will see a general period of heavy snow that may have a hard time sticking.

If this storm was occurring a few weeks earlier...i would be thinking a foot or more in the NW areas. We really need to storm to be a bit more east than progged. I like the setup of the high pressure and the fact that fresh cold air will be coming in.

Should be interesting but without much history to look at..this is definitely a wild card storm.

Allentown,PA should do very well!

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