Has the Mid-Atlantic ever been hit by TWO blizzards in the span of two months?

[charlie and algernon]

I remember growing up getting blizzards in 1994, 1996, 2003, but never within a TWO month period?

We've already gotten one December 20th, now we can get one February 6th?

Climate change is a real SOB, ain't it?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. 1996 in Maryland.

We got 3 blizzards in a span of January to February.

That all but cemented my decision to move to the Sunshine State. No more shoveling for me.

[Digit]

14. I also moved south after the blizzard of '96

Too much snow for me!
I will be watching this one hit from afar. :hi:

[HopeHoops]

2. I think it was 1979, but the DC area got two 2' snow storms - 2 weeks apart.

It shut down the whole fucking area. They were using front loaders to dump snow into the Potomac because DC didn't have anywhere else to put it.

[Zomby Woof]

5. That may have been the system I was referring to in my post

If it was, it was 1980. I remember being out of school forever (7th grade), and watching the Olympics, the year the US hockey team won the gold.

[HopeHoops]

6. 1979, 1980 - close enough. That was the one I mean.

Our neighborhood didn't get plowed for like 4 days or so after each of those storms.

[TZ]

3. In 1983 we got too good storms in like 3 days

One was 12 inches and one was I think 8 inches. But yeah, there hasn't been a winter like this is a loong time in these parts. We are well on our way to having the snowiest winter ever, I think

[Zomby Woof]

4. 1980

During the time of the Winter OLympics in Lake Placid, NY. In Virginia Beach, where I lived, we had over 42 inches of snow over a period of 4 days, and it took weeks to melt off. It was called "The Circus Blizzard" because the Ringling Bros. circus was stranded in town for the duration. It was considered one of those "once every 100 years" incidents.

The system came down from Canada and blanketed the entire northeast, down to the mid-Atlantic region, and much of the coast.

[Demoiselle]

7. Um, speaking as someone who was born in North Dakota...

I would say that the Mid-Atlantic may well never have seen an actual blizzard...or almost never.
A blizzard isn't so much a matter of the amount of snow that falls, but the speed of the wind blowing behind that snow and the resultant lack of visibility.
When snow's coming at you horizontally at a very nasty rate of speed, you have your basic blizzard.

[Zomby Woof]

9. That's what happened with the 'Circus Blizzard'

The winds were strong enough to cause massive drifts. Slopes of snow accumulated high enough to cover the sides of houses. The snow could be 6 feet deep in one part of a yard, and less than an inch in another. My dad had to break through a wall of snow just to get to the driveway so he could shovel.

Normal in ND maybe, but for the residents of Virginia Beach, VA, completely beyond our experiences, lol.

[Demoiselle]

10. Virginia BEACH?

Oh my goodness. That WAS a blizzard. Of course (and this is positively my last tidbit of knowledge about snowstorms) Virginia Beach would be directly in the path of the typical East Coast snow machine pattern...the one that starts, say, in Texas, moves east and then north along the Coast. I love snow so I have to admit that I'm always disappointed when the snowmaker moves out to sea before it hits Philly, where I am now.
Oh well. My husband just told me the winds are supposed to be high this time. So stay warm everybody. Get in a supply of goodies while you can. Your choice of goodies, of course.

[madinmaryland]

8. Here's the projected accumulation map...

[TZ]

11. Well here's how unusual this is

It looks like this storm will be in the top 5 ALL TIME snow storms ever. I believe the December storm was number 7 or 8 all time....

[mwooldri]

12. We've been on Code Brown all week ...

The first lot of snow that was dumped on us here in NC last Friday, and then the weatherguys spouting about another dumping tomorrow. It's changed to just freezing rain and possible snow and NWS has our county on Winter Weather Watch...

School was dismissed early on Friday, closed Monday to Wednesday and were on 2 hour delay today. This is longest I've seen schools closed and most snow I've seen here in GSO since moving here nearly 11 years ago.

Mark.

PS: Code Brown refers to our management here worrying who the heck is going to answer all the telephones in this here call center.

[WinkyDink]

13. "Ever" is a long time.