[Martinsville Wea...]

VB Location List for Friday, February 5:
DCA ejbauers
IAD Frodo Fox
DCA Martinsville Weather
ACY Tornado1555
DCA weatherman
IAD Windy
IAD wxfox51
ROA wxrat
DCA wxstravis

Virtual Blizzard 2010 Entry:
Username: ejbauers
Date: February 5, 2010
Location: DCA
Comments: I love the fact that the heavier snow will probably set up further north than forecast, which would put it right into my neck of the woods in Southern Lancaster County, PA! For Friday, KDCA should serve its purpose and bring in a nice total.

Virtual Blizzard 2010 Entry:
Username: Tornado1555
Date: 2/5/10 TH
Location: ACY
Comments: Good Changes, I did reveiw the plots I made today, and compared them to the forecast, and I have a great feeling about it. MOther's bnirthday too!.

Good luck all!

Today is my birthday, too, and this is a wonderful birthday present!

[wxfox51]

Do we have a crying smilie yet, since all I will get from this is clouds?

*prays that somehow, for some reason, the blocking high will collapse and the storm will come north*

Hey..."nothing is impossible for the Lord" Luke 1:37

[Martinsville Wea...]

...and how much snow have you gotten this year? 60-70 inches? I haven't gotten that much in the last 7 years combined! Don't be greedy.

[wxfox51]

No...we really haven't. Its been a terrible year for lake effect the past 2 years. Oswego's greatest 24 hour snowfall this year is 8" (over winter break, when no one was here)....last year, 10". And since we are right on the lake on campus, its even worse. I would say 25% of campus is grass. The last big storm Oswego had was in Feb. 2007....before our time up here.

[wxduff]

I forecast for 27 cities last night and somehow managed to forget to forecast a pick for this.

[Martinsville Wea...]

No...we really haven't. Its been a terrible year for lake effect the past 2 years. Oswego's greatest 24 hour snowfall this year is 8" (over winter break, when no one was here)....last year, 10". And since we are right on the lake on campus, its even worse. I would say 25% of campus is grass. The last big storm Oswego had was in Feb. 2007....before our time up here.

Oh, really? I wasn't sure how to find a seasonal total from Oswego, but BUF, ROC, and SYR are all sitting at 60"+ for the winter.

[Martinsville Wea...]

The big question was, DCA or IAD? Looks like Dulles won out this time...

Does anyone have any helpful hints as to how to figure out which spot may be better in any given storm? I always have a hard time choosing one or the other.

[wxfox51]

One of the met majors that graduated last year is from right near Dulles, and through talking to him, I got the impression that Dulles always gets more...so that is why I went there. In general though...I do not know of any real method to predict where the heavy snow bands will set up...

[Tornado1555]

Ouch. Got smacked. Today should be better hopefully.

[Martinsville Wea...]

It looks like IAD has won even more than we first thought. Apparently the NWS has revised IAD's total from yesterday and upped it from 11.4" to 14.9". I have updated the standings accordingly.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/productview.php?pi...on=1&max=25
(Time-sensitive; click "previous" once or twice if that shows Saturday's climate report.)

[Martinsville Wea...]

According to the updated CF6, IAD has gone back to their original 11.4" total. I don't understand what all the confusion was about, but I have adjusted the scores back to their original values.