I’m not talking about Britney Spears either. Believe me she’s a hell of a lot cuter than I am. I mentioned in other posts that this being the first national snow contest that mistakes are going to be made. That’s a promise 
This year is sort of a test run so feedback and suggestions are more than welcome. A big slip up was pointed out to me tonight on a site I came across, dcist.com with the Washington, DC snow stats. I have no problem with just myself making a mistake on the site. Trust me, I’m use to it by now but it bugs me when other sites post or quote stuff that I screw up on.
Anyways the mistake I made was using the snow stats from Dulles instead of National in DC which turns out to be a huge difference in snowfall. I think my major in high school was detention and not geography which should explain a little bit about me 
What bothers me the most is that a couple of articles were posted online going by the site so if you came across any of them the blame lies here and not with them. OK, enough groveling and begging for forgiveness 
National is the airport now for DC and the chances are there are probably a couple others that may need to be changed. If you come across any jump right in to let us know about them. As for populations don’t bother about that now. My main goal to get the site started was to find cities with pops over 100,000. In other words if your city’s population is listed here at 230,789 instead of what may be 240,777 I’m not worried about that right now. Sooner or later we will have more recent city populations listed. OK, enough for now and again keep the input coming.
A shout out to the posters at http://dcist.com/2010/02/dc_area_now_claims_second_highest_s.php for cluing me in about the Washington,DC area and who know, they may be right back up there after this storm is done. Snow hats off to dcist.com and and syracuse.com for having fun with the snow contest and again it was my bad and not theirs.
Cheers All!
Oh, and Pittsburgh has an ‘h’.
While using “official” airport-gathered statistics may be your methodology, it’s not very representative of what’s happening in the general DC area — i.e., getting slammed with +20″ more than National.
There is an H in Pittsburgh (PA).
Why not put Arlington, VA up on the list and use the IAD measurements. Arlington has a population of 200k+
Correction…
Actually, neither Dulles nor National are in Washington, DC proper. Both are in Northern Virginia. National is in Arlington County, VA (pop. 209,969) and Dulles in Fairfax County, VA (pop. 1,100,000). Fairfax County may not be a city, but has a larger population than most of the “cities” in your list. I think you should include Dulles in your list. My two cents…
National Airport is not representative of DC snowfall due to its low-lying location on the Potomac River. But don’t just take my word for it: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/08/AR2010020803559.html
I say you list Washington Dulles too. As the poster at DCist said it is a good representative of the metropolitan area. And on another note I thought I got away from all this crap when I moved here from Syracuse!
I’d say Dulles is just as much the airport for DC as National is. We’re a pretty huge metropolitan area.
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