The Super Storm of '93 On March fifth, 1993 I walked into my boss’s office and told him a week from Saturday would be the end of the world as he knew it. My old boss was a weather geek like me and knew exactly what I meant. On March ninth my second daughter was born and the Blizzard ’93 was another four days away. The Super Storm of ’93 was on the computer models for ten days straight. The position and strength wavered very little in those ten days. Model consistency over a ten day period is rare and we are talking about less refined models fifteen years ago than the ones we have now. In fact the model that tracked the storm with great accuracy does not even exist today. I couldn’t work the days leading up to the storm with the new addition to the family. I was in charge of my oldest daughter who at the time who was not quite two and very sick. I returned to work the Monday after the Blizzard and tried to put things in perspective. The storm did not produce a great deal of snow in the immediate Metro Area mainly due to the mixing of sleet with the snow. I have never seen it sleet that hard before or since. The sound on the roof of my house was unbelievable. National recorded only 6.5” while Dulles measured 11”. More than half the season’s snowfall fell with that one storm. We still ended with below average snowfall for the winter. I tried to explain on the air that in terms of pressure this was the strongest winter storm ever in recorded in the East. National set a new low for pressure at 28.54”. The storm had a lower central pressure than hurricane Hugo ! Our weather watchers to the west that received all snow were buries under 40” ! Snow fell from Alabama to Maine. Birmingham, Alabama had 13” while Chattanooga had a record 22”. Syracuse received 43”. The storm caused six billion in damage. A lot of folks don’t remember the other storm we had just about ten days earlier that produced two to four inches of rain with forty to sixty mile per hour winds. It’s a good thing that wasn’t a snowstorm or we would have been buried most of the first half of March.  ¶ 4:30 PM