Hagerstown Weather Remarks March 1995

March 8th 1995
One of the greatest weather turn arounds ever in one day occured on 
this day. Here are my remarks from that day.
                           A WARM DAY / A BLIZZARD !!
8th: Today was one of the greatest turn arounds in weather that I have 
ever seen or in the last 100 years of weather records. 
The weather changed from a warm high temperature of 67 F. at noon the 
second warmest day of the winter to blizzard conditions and the largest 
snowfall of the winter in less than 6 hours.
Shortly after noon a strong arctic front plowed through with gusty NW 
winds up to 33 mph dropping the temperature  from 67 F to 47 F in 45 
minutes. The temperature continued to fall all afternoon with a few 
rain showers and gusty winds. Steady rain began by 4:30 pm which quickly
turned to heavy sleet and snow. By 6pm it was 32 F with 1.0 " of snow 
on the ground with heavy snow and white-out conditions. A lot of thunder 
and lightning occured between 5pm and 7pm with bursts of heavy snow and 
white-outs. Snow totals 7pm 3.0", 8pm 4.2", 9pm 5.8", 10pm 6.2" and 
finally when it ended at 11pm the total was 6.7" and the temperature  
was 27 F. There was almost continuous white-out conditions all evening 
with heavy snow and blowing and drifting snow and wind gusts up to 30
mph. WOW ! WHAT A DAY!!