WVclimo

I was in high school in Cumberland in '77 and it was the biggest waste of non-stop cold weather I've ever experienced. We had flurries for weeks and when we did get an inch or two of snow, it turned into a glacier in a day or so. If you like cold temps, that season was legend. But the snow wasn't the kind you shovel or sweep. A chisel would have been more appropriate.

For this area, the record low temp on 1/20/1985 was just outside of the top ten coldest nights in the 100-year period of record, at 11th all-time. And the record low max of 1/21 was one of the coldest 7 days ever. But as @WEATHER53 can tell you, the winds with those temps made it even more extreme. An air mass deserving of a "brutally cold" forecast. As Ji said, the cold shot aligning with Reagan's second Inaguration made it more memorable also.

Storm total of 11.9" on 1.22" of precip. First time in 15 years at this location that I have recorded measurable snow on four consecutive days.

Picked up 0.3” of wind-blown snow overnight. More snow showers rolling through now. Lots of blowing snow also. Driveway that had been cleared now has some decent drifts across it. Up to 11.7” from this system.

Strange track with the low going from the Smokies to the Tidewater of VA, then due north to Nanticoke, before shunting back off the NJ coast. In a positively tilted trough ? With no capture ? Must be the Icon doing Icon-y things.

I only measured 3" in that 1/30/2010 storm. Just barely made it inside the sharp northern cutoff. I don't think there was much north of Hagerstown with that one.

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Seconded. I installed mine when we bought the house here in 2006. It has worked nearly flawlessly all of that time. The one time I had a problem, from a lightning strike, Davis support was excellent.

That's beautiful. Which direction is that view ?

DEC - 8.7" JAN - 8.0" FEB - 4.3” (so far) TOT- 21.0” (Long-term average through Feb 2: 13.8”)

Storm is finishing the way it started a long time ago, with pixie dust of varying intensity. 11.2" storm total with a snow depth of 9". Puts me over 20" for the season.

Beautiful ! Congrats man

First double-digit snow here since the 15” I measured on March 21, 2018. And only the third one since Feb 2014. 36 hours of continuous precip now.

2.3” of new snow since 7:00 a.m. 10” now for a storm total. And the band that has been pounding HGR all day is finally making its move toward my yard. Snow picking up in intensity quickly.

12Z Euro (includes today)

The better radar echoes look to have finally breached the Potomac. Things should get fun for a while. Good luck !

That band is 5 miles away from me. Impatiently waiting for it to make some westward progress.

0.50" visibility now in moderate snow. Lots more good radar echoes pointed this way. 28 degrees.

WWA from 10:10 a.m. still calling for an inch of accumulation today, but the point forecast for MRB and OKV was just raised to 2-4"

12Z GFS has 0.50"+ QPF through tomorrow at this time for the eastern panhandle of WV. All snow. LWX going with up to an additional inch of accumulation though.

I have been scratching my head since last night wondering how I did so well with accumulations, seeing so many nearby with significantly less. Your ob shows a 10:1 ratio which is helpful. I actually caught 0.81" in the Cocorahs bucket through 7:00 a.m. so my 7.7" measurement isn't terribly off from that. I was under 4 different bands for a long while yesterday, but I guess they didn't translate well to your side of the Potomac. Measured numerous spots around the property and finding 7" minimum on the level, even with compaction. Snowing again here at 26 degrees.

Consensus of the 00Z suite so far is that a 1-3 or 2-4" accumulation happens during the day tomorrow from HGR to OKV.

7.3" total so far. Down to 26 degrees from a high of 32.8

4.5” and 32 degrees.