Virginia Memories--Winter Ones
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Virginia Memories--Winter Ones
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Old Va. farmer coming from mill. Rappahannock Station, VA.
Edwin Forbes (January 14, 1864)
<i>January 27: A snow which began in the night...kept constantly at it the whole day with the wind hard & cold from the northward.
January 28: The same snow continued all last night and all this day with equal violence the wind being very cold and hard from the northward--drifting the snow into high banks.</i>
--George Washington's Diary on the Washington-Jefferson Snowstorm of January 27-28, 1772
March 16-18, 1841: Virginia Tidewater region buried under up to 30" of snow.
<i>Very cold all day with spits of snow and the wind blowing hard at NoWest</i>
--George Washington's Diary on the weather at Mt. Vernon, VA on May 4, 1774
Old Va. farmer coming from mill. Rappahannock Station, VA.
Edwin Forbes (January 14, 1864)
<i>January 27: A snow which began in the night...kept constantly at it the whole day with the wind hard & cold from the northward.
January 28: The same snow continued all last night and all this day with equal violence the wind being very cold and hard from the northward--drifting the snow into high banks.</i>
--George Washington's Diary on the Washington-Jefferson Snowstorm of January 27-28, 1772
March 16-18, 1841: Virginia Tidewater region buried under up to 30" of snow.
<i>Very cold all day with spits of snow and the wind blowing hard at NoWest</i>
--George Washington's Diary on the weather at Mt. Vernon, VA on May 4, 1774
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Re: Virginia Memories--Winter Ones
Another Virginia Memory:
<b>May 10-11, 1878:</b>
<i>Richmond:</i> "The weather...has been quite cold in this section. In the northwestern part of the State, along the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, the thermometer was below the freezing point last night [May 11] and ice formed in various localities."
<b>Source:</b> "The Crops Frost-Bitten," <i>The New York Times</i>, May 14, 1878.
<b>May 10-11, 1878:</b>
<i>Richmond:</i> "The weather...has been quite cold in this section. In the northwestern part of the State, along the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, the thermometer was below the freezing point last night [May 11] and ice formed in various localities."
<b>Source:</b> "The Crops Frost-Bitten," <i>The New York Times</i>, May 14, 1878.
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Re: Virginia Memories--Winter Ones
More evidence that it can snow in Virginia:
<img src="http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/thc/5a36000/5a36200/5a36201r.jpg">
Snow-covered Memorial Bridge, Virginia Side (1932)
Photographer: Theodor Horydczak
Source: Library of Congress
<img src="http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/thc/5a36000/5a36200/5a36201r.jpg">
Snow-covered Memorial Bridge, Virginia Side (1932)
Photographer: Theodor Horydczak
Source: Library of Congress
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Re: Virginia Memories--Winter Ones
donsutherland1 wrote:More evidence that it can snow in Virginia:
<img src="http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/thc/5a36000/5a36200/5a36201r.jpg">
Snow-covered Memorial Bridge, Virginia Side (1932)
Photographer: Theodor Horydczak
Source: Library of Congress
Oh how I long to enjoy a nice, long jebwalk in that snow!! To spend long hours savoring each and every shovelful of snow! To spend hours blasting Billy Joel's "Allentown" while walking past very tall snow mounds piled up by mechanized earth-moving equipment because there is so much snow that ordinary plows just can't handle it and break down from the strain of trying to bull through huge snowdrifts!
Just to happily slide on ice and roll around in deep snow and to know it is truly COLD and not another scorching hot blowtorch day like this upcoming Saturday is going to be in N VA with highs in the lower 60s and bright, undiluted sunshine that will burn away all of the rest of my precious snow that is left.
If only we could have one last deep 12 to 18-inch snow with a week to 2 weeks of highs in the mid 30s and lows in the 20s so I can enjoy my precious snow jebwalks once again!! Just a few more precious snow-related jebwalks!!!
Why is that so difficult this season?
-Jeb, dying for a snowy jebwalk.........
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Re: Virginia Memories--Winter Ones
<b>May 22, 1883:</b> Up to a foot fo snow fell between Lynchburg and Clifton Forge, VA. The weather was "exceedingly cold."
<B>Source:</b> "Damage to Crops," <i>The New York Times</i>, May 24, 1883.
<B>Source:</b> "Damage to Crops," <i>The New York Times</i>, May 24, 1883.
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I think Jeb needed that to lift her spirit.
That last storm teased her a bit as well as many looking for a good snow in NC and Virginia. Gearing up here locally for some possible "ocean affect snow" Sun and Mon, I guess it's better than nothing
. My 100th post, I'm now a snow flurry!







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