January 24, 2024 | Posted in News
STUFF. YOU LOVE TONY. THAT’S RIGHT. YEAH, EIGHT YEARS AGO. WE JUST CAN’T LET THIS ONE GO BECAUSE IT WAS THE ALL TIME RECORD SETTER EIGHT YEARS AGO TODAY. IT STARTED ON THE 22ND. REALLY CRANKED UP ON THE 23RD. THE ALL TIME RECORD SNOW MAKER IN BALTIMORE. THERE IT IS. 29.2IN OF SNOW ON JANUARY 22ND AND 23RD. EIGHT YEARS AGO TODAY TOPPED THE ALL TIME LIST. THE NEXT CLOSEST WAS THE FEBRUARY 2003 BLIZZARD AND I GOT A MESSAGE YESTERDAY. SOMEBODY WAS ASKING, WHY DIDN’T YOU MENTION THE 1979 STORM? THAT WAS A FEBRUARY STORM. IT ONLY HAD ONLY HAD 20IN. I MEAN, TO CRACK THE TOP FIVE SNOWFALLS IN BALTIMORE, YOU GOT TO GET AT LEAST 25IN OF SNOW THAT WAS ON THAT FEBRUARY 2010 STORM, THE FIRST IN THAT WEEK. LATER THAT WEEK, WE HAD ANOTHER 25 INCH OR SO. THAT WAS AN INCREDIBLE WEEK. BUT SINGLE STORM, THIS ONE EIGHT YEARS AGO IS THE ALL TIME RECORD SETTER WITH 29.2IN IN THE AIRPORT. WASN’T EVEN THE HIGHEST TOTAL. NORTH POTOMAC IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, ALMOST 39IN OF SNOW CAST MADE UP IN THE CATOCTIN, 37.5 WESTMINSTER AND REISTERSTOWN OVER 32IN AND THEN THE OFFICIAL TOTAL DOWN AT BWI MARSHALL. THAT WAS EIGHT YEARS AGO, BUT TEMPERATURES ARE IN THE 40S NOW, MID TO UPPER 40S IN SOME SPOTS. COLLEGE PARK CHECKS IN AT 47. RIGHT NOW, WESTMINSTER’S 4644 IN CENTREVILLE. SO ALL ACROSS THE STATE IT’S A JANUARY THAW. AFTER EIGHT CONSECUTIVE DAYS WITH BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES, THE PATTERN HAS CHANGED AND WE ARE NOW ON THE WARMER SIDE OF THINGS. AND IT’S ONLY GOING TO GET WARMER. THIS WILL COME WITH SOME RAIN. THE SNOW HAS BEEN PUSHED INTO FAR NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA TO SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND. THERE ARE SOME SPRINKLES AND LIGHT SHOWERS TO OUR SOUTH AND WEST, AND THE SOUTHERN BRANCH OF THE JET STREAM WILL BE QUITE ACTIVE. DELIVERING THESE WET STORM SYSTEMS COMING UP OFF THE PACIFIC AND OUT OF THE GULF COAST REGION, LOADED WITH MOISTURE AND RAIN CHANCES, ESPECIALLY FOR THE END OF THE WEEK. NOW FUTURECAST GOING INTO TOMORROW MORNING SHOWS SOME CHILLY TEMPERATURES. IF ANY SPRINKLES OR DRIZZLE DEVELOPED IN THE EARLY MORNING, THERE MAY BE AN ICY PATCH OR TWO, BUT YOU CAN SEE FUTURECAST HAS VERY LITTLE IN THE WAY OF PRECIPITATION GOING ON TOMORROW MORNING. BUT WE’LL BE MONITORING THAT OVERNIGHT TO SEE IF ANY KIND OF RAIN SHOWER ACTIVITY ARRIVES IN THOSE COLDER MORNING TEMPERATURES. BY AFTERNOON, WE’RE SEEING HIGH TEMPERATURES REACH THE 50S IN MANY AREAS. TOMORROW IT WILL BE CHILLIER NEAR THE HARBOR OR NEAR THE BAY. BUT IF YOU GET AWAY FROM THOSE CHILLY WATERS, TEMPERATURES TOMORROW ARE REALLY GOING TO CLIMB. AND NOTICE 3:00 IN THE AFTERNOON, WE’RE STILL ESSENTIALLY DRY. IT WILL BE MOSTLY CLOUDY AND MILD. THE MAIN RAIN CHANCE ARRIVES LATER TOMORROW NIGHT AFTER SUNSET. GOING INTO THE EVENING, A CHANCE FOR SOME SHOWERS MOVING IN. SO OVERNIGHT TONIGHT, MOSTLY CLOUDY. WE’LL CALL IT CHILLY, BUT IT’S ABOVE NORMAL 30 TO 37 FOR THE LOW. HIGHS TOMORROW. GETTING CLOSE TO THE 50 DEGREE MARK IN BALTIMORE. MAYBE EVEN SOME LOW 50S IN WARMER SPOTS WITH MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES AND THE SHOWER CHANCES INCREASE AS WE HEAD PAST SUNSET TOMORROW EVENING. 57 SAINT MARY’S CITY. TOMORROW 55 OCEAN CITY 49. IN WESTMINSTER AND RAIN SHOWERS AND 40S IN THE MOUNTAINS. AND THEN THURSDAY, EVERYBODY GETS A CHANCE FOR RAIN. BUT AGAIN, ALMOST SPRING LIKE SHOWERS WITH TEMPERATURES WARMING INTO THE LOW 60S. SOUTH OF BALTIMORE, UPPER 50S TO THE NORTH OF TOWN. SEVEN DAY FORECAST, THEN WET WEATHER ON THURSDAY. IT LOOKS LIKE WE’RE GOING TO GET A BREAK IN THE WET WEATHER FRIDAY, AND UNSEASONABLY MILD. SO FOR THE SUPER PLUNGER STARTING AT 10 A.M. FRIDAY, YOU COULDN’T ASK FOR A BETTER WEATHER PATTERN THAN THAT. THIS TIME OF YEAR. PARTLY CLOUDY AND MID 60S SHOWERS RETURNED LATE SATURDAY. THERE’S GOING TO BE SOME RAIN AROUND. AS TONY MENTIONED ON SUNDAY, WITH T