The Weather Warrior

WHERE HURRICANES, TORNADOES, LIGHTNING, BLIZZARDS, AND FLOODS ARE NO MATCH!

Chile my focus today & Hawaii

Won’t be much of a blog today. I’m trying to get information about Santiago, Chile and some friends who have family in Chile. I just visited one friend’s family in Santiago this past September. I am hoping and praying for them and the rest of Chile.

Also keeping an eye on [...]

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Sat, February 27 2010 » Historical Events, Winter 2009/2010, other news stories » No Comments

HOLY COW! Lots of snow and little blogging

February 14th, 2010 at 1:21pm EST
I have no Valentine, so I’d better update everyone while I have the time.
It has been a crazy week and one-half. From the last post you can see that we were staring down the barrel of our first of two HISTORICAL winter snow events for the DC & Baltimore [...]

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Sun, February 14 2010 » DC area weather, Historical Events, Winter 2009/2010, severe weather coverage, snow » No Comments

BIG STORM!!!! DC and points west to get SLAMMED!

February 4, 2010 at 5:41pm EST
We could see a record storm starting Friday afternoon
Well, for the second time this winter season we could see a 12″ plus storm. In fact most everyone is on board with this one now, calling for 14-24 inches. This could even out do the last major storm we [...]

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Thu, February 4 2010 » DC area weather, Historical Events, Winter 2009/2010, snow » No Comments

JACKPOT ! 20″ of snow at my house.

December 20th, 2009 at 7:08pm EDT
Storm Report from yesterday’s EPIC and HISTORIC snow storm in Washington, DC.
DC/Baltimore NWS (LWX) reports map: “http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/lwx/events/?event=20091219 (hover over the numbers for readable information).

Wow…what a storm. I measured 20″ here at the house (Gaithersburg, MD). I spent much of the day in DC streaming live video, where it [...]

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Sun, December 20 2009 » DC area weather, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Historical Events, Hurricanes 2009, Winter 2009/2010, severe weather coverage, snow, summer 2009, winter 2008/2009 » No Comments

Two historic DC snow storms

November 17th, 2009 at 10:56pm EST
Remembering the Blizzard of 1996 and the President Day Storm of 2003 (aka PDII)
This blog was delayed due to my school projects. I will post it in the next few days.

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Tue, November 17 2009 » DC area weather, Fall 2009, Historical Events, Past Weather Stories » No Comments

Some areas around DC may see flurries

Flurries overnight and in the morning
March 12th, 2009 at 11:12pm EDT
Looks like a few flakes may fall late in the evening hours or early morning hours, mostly to the south of the city (DC), and any that falls should not amount to any accumulations. While as I expected, the likelihood of snow fall for [...]

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Thu, March 12 2009 » DC area weather, Historical Events, Past Weather Stories, snow » No Comments

Simulated view of Hallam Tornado

What I saw on May 22nd, 2004
January 25th, 2009 at 11:42pm EST
Still working on getting materials together for my Hallam Tornado story. In the process I decided to make a rendering using Adobe Photoshop to represent what Jeff Gammons, Kersten McClung, Chris Collura and myself saw just before turning around and running away from [...]

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Sun, January 25 2009 » Historical Events, Past Weather Stories, tornado » 1 Comment

Great Inauguration event…Glad I went

Rest and recoup needed after long day on Tuesday.
January 21st, 2009 at 11:55pm
Today was a day for catching up on rest and getting back to a normal schedule. Plus I had to let me feet rest. Yesterday’s trip to Washington, DC to witness the Inauguration of Barrack Obama went very well. I’m [...]

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Wed, January 21 2009 » Historical Events » 1 Comment

Time for Inauguration Majic.

Early departure for Inauguration attendance.
January 19th, 2009 at 11:55pm
This is a quick update as I’m getting ready to grab some sleep before waking up to leave early tomorrow morning for the Inauguration in downtown DC. I’m going down to document all the activities and crowds. I won’t likely have a chance to get [...]

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Mon, January 19 2009 » DC area weather, Historical Events, snow, winter 2008/2009 » 1 Comment