Here are some official totals from Mount Holly for the 1/7 storm for southern DE-
...SUSSEX COUNTY...
OCEAN VIEW 13.5 625 PM 1/07 TRAINED SPOTTER
SELBYVILLE 13.0 604 PM 1/07 TRAINED SPOTTER
SEAFORD 9.0 550 PM 1/07 TRAINED SPOTTER
LAUREL 8.0 538 PM 1/07 DEOS
ELLENDALE 6.6 537 PM 1/07 DEOS
7 E SELBYVILLE 6.5 600 AM 1/08 COCORAHS
STOCKLEY 6.2 537 PM 1/07 DEOS
BRIDGEVILLE 6.1 538 PM 1/07 DEOS
1 W MILLSBORO 6.1 800 AM 1/08 COCORAHS
BLADES 6.0 545 PM 1/07 TRAINED SPOTTER
NASSAU 5.8 600 PM 1/07 DEOS
I was in Rehoboth and there was unofficially 10" there for the 1/7 event. Lewes I thought I saw a report of 12" somewhere.
I don't have any official totals for the 1/30 event, but I know there was a 2-4" area in southern DE for that one.
Hope this helps!
That one storm made this wretched winter bearable. Who would have thunk it- the best pure snow event of the season for our region occurred at the beaches. Cold dry powder with drifting too. I had 2 great days at Rehoboth, then came home to 6" on the ground and that stuck around for 3 more days. I got a nice snow hike in at Tuckahoe. Good 5 day stretch of winter, and in early January to boot. But that was all she wrote.
Rehoboth is completely awesome. No official measurement but definitely 8+ with lots of drifts. Winter wonderland at the beach plus bar hopping. So fun.
Looking pretty good. Root for the NAM of course lol. Even if it is overdone, almost all other guidance has at least a few inches down your way and over to the beaches.
They were not similar at all in many respects. 1996 was colder, and even though it flipped to sleet for many, it had a long duration cold conveyor of moderate snow after the shallow warm layer moved off. For the storm this year, either you were in the deform band or you weren't. It rapidly weakened when it finally pivoted east, so those that were solidly dry slotted didn't pick up much more accumulation. Also places on the lower eastern shore(Salisbury) had mostly rain from the storm this past January. Pretty sure they did much better in the 96 storm.
2009-2010 was my fav winter. There are individual events in other winters I liked better than any one of the 3 biggies of that winter, but there was just something magical about it. And getting the big storm before Xmas was something I had never experienced. That was awesome, and just gave me the feeling we were on to something special. Also, the late Jan storm was awesome- 15 degrees and 7" of pure fluff, and the Feb 5th event was already on the radar. Great winter.
The low over the SE moving up off the coast tomorrow and Monday may get close enough to get some snow into your area. Temps may be marginal though. Odds are sometime over the next 10 days you will get some snow there.
Per 21z RAP, best accums still lower So MD and Eastern shore. Oddly this latest run has a local bulls eye over me lol. In general I think this aligns with the ongoing forecast of 1-3".
Yup. The 5" on the Euro seems unlikely..thats the Boom potential with this. 1-2 seems doable. If the dynamics arent there, I could see it raining for hours as the temps slowly fall, with some mood fllakes at the end.
Dont look at the 16z RAP...basically nada for SBY
eta- 17z looks better, and its the extended RAP so its out of its range a tad. It also tends to run warm, but the warm temps going in and the short window are a concern.
12z Euro snowfall per wxbell-
SBY 13
Cambridge 19
Easton 19
Dover 20
Lewes 10-12
Lower So MD 20
GREAT run for the whole area. Most everyone is within a couple inches of 20. Higher amounts in mountains of Western VA
I dont know if I really buy that bulls-eye area. Plus the wxbell maps are overdone. 1-2 feet seems likely, and where the best mesoscale banding sets up will determine where the higher amounts end up.
Hard to say at this point. Where you are near the coast, sleet and even rain at the height is possible. Will start as snow, and it will go back to snow as the low pulls away. Per WxBell looks like 6" at Lewes right at the coast. Just few miles inland its 10-12.
Per WxBell, 0z Euro has 16 for S DE, 10 for SBY, 19 for Cambridge, And 20+ N&W of there. Probably overdone, as I believe most of us will see some sleet, even rain on the lower shore.