Dulles is about 25 mile west of DC and that area quite often gets much more snow than Reagan, which is about a mile south of the DC boundary on the Potomac. Alexandria/Arlington area (Reagan) usually gets less snow than Reston/Fairfax area (Dulles).
My nieces’ husband is an MP at Andrews AFB and they had a tough time keeping up with the snow.
Here, in NW lower Michigan, it was sunny and 20 degrees. Today it’s going to be sunny and 25 degrees. That’s sweat shirt weather. We seriously could’ve used a foot or so of that snow here.
I will call Dick Cheney this week and have him aim his weather machine at us, here.
Also, something I read—the weather station at Reagan National traditionally badly under-reports snow accumulation compared to the surrounding areas. Whatever fancy snow-measuring device they use is actually on the roof of the airport, which tends to cause accumulations to show as lower than if it was on the ground. On the December 19th storm, it under-reported by something like 30% and that pattern seems to have held true for this storm as well. Everywhere around the airport was in the 22-26” range, but DCA recorded 18”.
The irony is, the all-time record snow for Washington was the “Knickerbocker storm” (so named because it collapsed the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre), which was 27-28”. That was measured somewhere in northwest DC since there was no National Airport in the 1920s. Between DCA’s less favorable location, and the known underreporting problems, the record of the Knickerbocker storm may never be broken, since DCA is the “station of record” for all of Washington DC.
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