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“Snowmageddon” 2010

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

In February of 2010, warm water from a moderate Pacific El Niño fed moisture to a south-shifted jet stream, which brought the moisture into contact with a strong, cold, negative Arctic Oscillation over the Eastern United States — which for us meant snow, and lots of it.
In what would be variously termed “Snowmageddon,” “Snowpocalypse,” [...]

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Snowstorm of Dec. 2009

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Dec. 19th brought a historic snowstorm to the DC area, dumping almost two feet of snow in our immediate locality in North Virginia and surpassing in overall impact even the Feb 2003 snowstorm in Baltimore. We were pretty much snowed in for that whole weekend, but we did venture outside to survey conditions for a [...]

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DC Snowstorm, March 2009

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Some scenes from last week’s snowstorm, a parting shot from a DC winter that was almost completely snowless till its very final week. As I walked through the snow to work, I was especially torn up by the homeless man huddled in a corner of the Columbus Memorial, half-buried in drifts of snow. Hopefully the [...]

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Duck and Ice

Monday, February 16, 2009

Above, a duck leaves an icy trail in the Potomac River by Washington Harbour during the first real snow of the winter on January 27th. After about 1-2 inches of snow, we then had a lovely little ice storm the next day which turned the city into something very like a skating rink, which [...]

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Clouds

Friday, October 10, 2008

It’s been an interesting week to photograph clouds, what with the clear skies and clashing cold and warm fronts of early Fall over DC. Still no new camera after the catastrophe so I just shot these with my cellphone: Altocumulus (possibly perlucidus?) ethereally lit from slightly below by the morning sun over Union Station, Altostratus [...]

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Cirrocumulus over DC

Saturday, September 20, 2008

This has been a nice week for being outside, what with Fall approaching, temperatures dropping a bit, and the sun being out. Here are two nice photos of cirrocumulus clouds over DC landmarks which I snapped with my phone while walking home on Monday afternoon:

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Hanna Timelapse

Sunday, September 7, 2008

All through Saturday I had a script fetch an image from the WJLA sky cam every 30 seconds to catch Tropical Storm Hanna’s progress as it passed over DC, then combined the image sequence into a movie with some loops for background music. Kennedy Center is at lower middle right. I do wish the office [...]

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Tropical Storm Hanna

Saturday, September 6, 2008

I snapped this panorama from the Harbour yesterday as Tropical Storm Hanna approached; that’s the last bit of sun we see till Sunday. Being an obsessive weather geek, I am of course following the storm closely on We Love DC, and have multiple tabs open for radar, NOAA reports, local news, webcams, weblogs, and Twitter. [...]

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Clouds of Fay

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Remnants of Tropical Storm Fay came to DC Thursday and Friday, darkening the sky, dumping rain on the city, and providing some lovely nimbostratus cloudscapes:

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Faint Rainbow Over DC

Sunday, June 22, 2008

I was feeling well and non-swollen enough tonight to go with Amy to the National Gallery, where we viewed some new acquisitions and listened to the Washington Bach Consort perform a free concert of vocal and organ works by various members of the Bach family. On our way back home we were rained on [...]

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