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THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL
MDA FEDERAL SNOW POOL
Guess when one-half inch or more of snow will first be officially measured on the ground at National Airport this season.
The signup list is posted in the hall outside the Weather room (Room 423). Deadline for signing up is 4:00 PM on Friday, October 24. Payment must be made by that time. The pot is usually over $100. Pick as many date-time combinations as you want at 75 CENTS PER PICK or 3 PICKS FOR TWO DOLLARS. There is a two-pick minimum. Payment should be made to me (Jason Setree -Weather Group). A special category is available to all who want to guess that NO half-inch or greater measurements will occur prior to April 1. (This has occurred three times in the past 35 years.) If no one picks the correct time, the nearest pick will win. In the event of a nearest-pick tie or multiple winners in the "no snow" category, pot will be divided. If "no snow" wins but no one selected it, latest pick gets pot. If the first half-inch event occurs before November 1 or after March 31, it is ignored.
Official measurements are taken four times daily: at 1:00 and 7:00 AM and 1:00 and 7:00 PM EST and are reported in the NWS METAR reports which are automatically collected and archived at MDA Federal. These reports round the measurement to the nearest whole inch, so if the actual amount was 0.5 inch, it will be reported as one inch and used for purposes of this pool. Unofficial measurements are taken at intermediate hours and may be reported in the media – we do not use them.
3 PICKS FOR $2.00 or 75 CENTS PER PICK
SIGN UP NOW -- PAY BY OCT. 24
Payment to Jason Setree
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