Update

January 24, 2015 - It's been quiet on the bands in my "neck of the woods." I'm surprised that the HF bands, including WARC, are very quiet. I'm spending the day listening to some QSO's, following the weather forecast and recharging battery-packs that are used for my EmComm station.


A weather "event" just moved up the East Coast and had produced snow in New England. Conditions near Washington, DC were cool and rainy. Yet, forecasters are now tracking an Alberta Clipper (upper left corner of map) which will drastically change conditions here from Sunday night into Monday:

The Washington Post (blog) forecasts this as a potentially severe storm that "could turn out to be a blockbuster event, with potentially crippling impacts, for some coastal locations in the Northeast on Tuesday."

It looks like we'll be spared the worst outcome here. Currently, no weather forecaster is offering likely amounts of accumulation here in Washington, DC. Best guest-imates call for 1-5 inches (1/24/15 at 2215 UTC). Stay tuned.

The National Weather Service (Baltimore/Washington DC) just issued the following predictions. I suspect we'll have between 3-5" of snow ... unless the storm "track" changes significantly.

January 31, 2015 - Well, the clipper-turned-blizzard didn't cause any problems here in Washington, DC. It moved up the coast and blasted coastal New England. AS of today, people are still "digging out" from an unusual winter storm!