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February 24, 2012: Severe Weather Radar
A Few February Stats
Days With High Temps Above Avg: 17
Days With Low Temps Above Avg: 11
Highest Temp: 72.1 on 2/23
Lowest Temp: 14.7 on 2/13
Mean Temp thru the 23rd: 42.8
Snow: 3.9″ on 2/18 (RIC only had a trace before this)
A Look Ahead: Is Winter Over?
After last weekend’s weak Winter storm that dumped 3-6″ across RVA, will we see any more? Chances are slim to none. With temps reaching 70+ today, the snow is a distant memory. We could also see some thunderstorms tomorrow evening. NAM CAPE values of 500+ could, along with strong upper shear, create some decent severe weather from Richmond and south.
A cold front will move in Saturday with highs in the 50’s. Then its back to the 60’s again.
The current GFS shows a nice rain event on March 1st, and a bigger one on the 4th and 5th. So…Winter 11-12′, goodbye. Stay tuned for an in depth look at this Winter and its impacts on the RVA. We’ll soon be transitioning to severe weather discussion.
February 19, 2012: Richmond Snow Event, Radar Loop
Radar Loop from KAKQ for the entire event here:
Richmond Winter Snow Records
I got an interesting email from Larry at the NWS Wakefield office about Richmond historical winter snow totals. See the email below:
“We have recorded at trace of snow thus far this season at Richmond (the only season that finished with just a trace is 1918-19). The 2nd lowest amount in a season was 0.5” in 1944-45. For “seasonal snowfall” the entire season is considered so we will need to have no measurable snow for Feb, Mar, Apr this year to tie the 1918-19 season. Recently in 2006-07, we had just 0.3″ by the end of March…appeared to be set to have the 2nd lowest snowfall season on record…until Easter Sunday in April recorded 1.0″ making the seasonal total 1.3″…9th lowest.”
Very interesting.
See the list below
Richmond Top 10 Snow List (downloads a pdf)
January 2012 Temp Stats
What a bizarre January that was. No accumulating snow, sleet, ice or even grauple! 2.01″ of rain. 21 days with a high temp of 50* or greater. 10 days with a low above freezing (32*). A mean temp of 42.3*. Wow! The “Anti-Winter”. This may go on record, if February continues the trend, as one of Richmond’s warmest, least snowy ever. What a bummer for snow junkies…
As Jim Duncan tweeted recently, I’m ready to throw in the towel on this winter…
Jan 27th Morning Storms Radar
2009, 2010, 2011 Wx Stats for Chesterfield, VA
Ominous but Harmless
Some dark and scary Stratus clouds looming over Chesterfield. They are also ushering in a cold front that will drop temps and bring some gusty winds this evening.