Health & Fitness
Lorton precipitation amounts Mar 25 - 31, 2013; was it a snowy winter?
Daily rainfall totals for previous 24 hours measured at 6am from my rain gauge in Lorton.
This is the last week I plan on reporting snowfall totals for the season. This winter I measured a total of 6” of snow. Last winter I measured only 1.2” of snow, so by comparison it was... nothing like the winter of 2009-2010. A professor at Penn State where I got my meteorology degree liked to describe snow as being either nuisance, plowable, or crippling... we had a winter that threatened to be between nuisance and plowable, certainly never was crippling.
So on to spring - when do we need to worry about watering our lawns? Clearly we don’t want to do it when it’s freezing, so I looked at the records for Ft Belvoir to see how often it freezes in April. Climatologically, about 35% of the nights in early April are below freezing and that lowers to below 10% after the 17th of the month. It does still happen in May but for planning purposes I’m going to consider myself safe from freezes in the middle of the month.
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My rain gauge in Lorton recorded the following precipitation at 6am on the day indicated for the previous 24 hours.
Date
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Precip
Snowfall
Mon 03/25/2013
**
**
Tue 03/26/2013
0.53 * (includes Monday)
1.6” (includes Monday)
Wed 03/27/2013
0.00”
0.0
Thu 03/28/2013
0.00”
0.0
Fri 03/29/2013
0.00”
0.0
Sat 03/30/2013
0.00”
0.0
Sun 03/31/2013
0.00”
0.0
Totals :
0.53”
1.6”
