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The snow is gone. Long live the snow

December 28th, 2009 at 10:51pm EST
All the snow is melted, but is there more coming?
The snows from the December 19th storm have long melted (and been washed away from rain), but we may be looking at some additional now around New Year’s Day. Uncertainty at the moment, and the next model runs aren’t quite [...]

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Mon, December 28 2009 » DC area weather, Weather Warrior TV, Winter 2009/2010, severe weather coverage » No Comments

A special Christmas NWS message!

December 25th, 2009 at 7:15pm EDT
Found this posted by David Drummond on Stormtrack.org.  This is from Jason Jordon of the National Weather Service Office in Lubbock, Texas.  Apparently it’s an annual thing.

IT IS THE MORNING OF CHRISTMAS AND I AM BACK IN THE CHAIR
TO BRING YOU THE LONG-TERM DISCUSSION WITH A BIT OF CHRISTMAS FLAIR.
THE [...]

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Fri, December 25 2009 » Winter 2009/2010 » No Comments

Merry Christmas

Taking some time to spend with my mother, who is the only family around the area these days. Hope all are having a peaceful and fullfilling Christmas Eve.

For the Kids, I believe Santa Claus is almost here in the US according to the NORRAD tracking system. Better get those cookies set [...]

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Thu, December 24 2009 » Jason personal, Winter 2009/2010 » No Comments

Fun with (Christmas) Lights

December 22nd, 2009 at 10:22pm EDT
Trip to the Mormon’s Temple’s “Festival of Lights”
Yesterday evening I took a trip down to Kensington, MD to return to the Mormon Temple where each year they have the “Festival of Lights” display. While many places have a Christmas lights display, they typically are less interesting with shapes and [...]

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Wed, December 23 2009 » DC area weather, Winter 2009/2010, public display, snow » No Comments

Winter Solstice TODAY

December 21st, 2009 at 2:01 EST
Winter’s official start, shortest day of the year
Well, this blog should have been sent out prior to the actual solstice, but the auto post feature didn’t work.

Today is the Winter Solstice, which is basically about the time of year when the tilt of the Earth results in the northern hemisphere [...]

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Mon, December 21 2009 » Winter 2009/2010 » 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

Possible HISTORIC snow even in/around DC.

December 17th, 2009 at 10:55pm EST
Will DC see it’s first 12″+ December snow storm EVER?
I have not been personally able to follow the forecast modes, but have been monitoring the buzz (between trying to finish my college final project) from others talking about the storm system tracking from the Gulf of Mexico, up through the [...]

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Thu, December 17 2009 » DC area weather, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Winter 2009/2010, snow » No Comments

DC/AMS Holiday Dinner

December 15th, 2009 at 10:54pm EST
Holiday Dinner in DC a success for the DC chapter of the American Meteorological Society.
Tonight I headed down to Chinatown in Washington, DC for the annual holiday gathering of the DC chapter of the American Meteorological Society (DC/AMS). It was great, the food the conversation, the atmosphere (pardon the [...]

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Tue, December 15 2009 » DC area weather, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Hurricanes 2009, Jason personal, Weather Events (festivials, severe weather coverage, storm chasing, summer 2009 » No Comments

Super Foggy here

I’ll have a full blog a little bit later, but wanted to report there is a lot of fog here, north of DC. I’m actually going out to get some photos in a little bit.

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Sun, December 13 2009 » DC area weather, Fall 2009 » No Comments

Combining two passions

December 11th, 2009 at 1:01am EST
More and more, my passions for Architecture and Weather are merging
Over the past few months I’ve been reentering the field of architecture particularly by taking some new college classes. Along with the newer green movements and sustainable building is the push for newer design software. But one class [...]

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Fri, December 11 2009 » Jason personal, green movement » No Comments