Eskimo Joe

Damn near impossible to be even optimistic about hitting climo for the year with LR guidance spitting out stuff like this:

Flurries in Gaithersburg. Well, that was a nice winter everyone. See you next year.

Had some flakes in Hunt Valley when I was getting lunch.

It's happening. All about the 2021 Eskimo Express!!

Yesterday. Millions affected. Holidays ruined. Worst storm since 2020.

Got down to 22 in Reisterstown last night. Finally feels like late November.

My 6" - 10" hybrid Miller A for Christmas Eve is starting to line up.

Before. I'm wishing for a climo Christmas, just like the ones we used to know.

Is this like a discord or something being made?

Winter of 2011 - 2012 has entered the chat.

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JB says a lot of things.

Yup. The Blizzard Watch was issued at 10:13 by LWX (https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/p.php?pil=WSWLWX&e=201601201513). This was the last Blizzard Watch that was ever issued by LWX since the NWS Hazard Simplification (HazSimp) process ha since eliminated the Blizzard Watch product. Later that day, the Winter Weather Advisory was issued for the region about an house later: https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/p.php?pil=WSWLWX&e=201601201614

I love sunrises and sunsets in the autumn and winter.

It's always that wedge NE of the Catoctin Mts. Wish Site R would keep their ASOS up more often, them and the Mid Atlantic Soaring Center sites provide some really great information.

Two regional issues: 1.) With small storms, a 10% change in QPF makes a big difference. <0.1" QPF was forecast but around 0.15 - 0.2" fell so snow was "worse" on the road. We've studied this for about 7 years and found most of the big accident days occur when <6" of snow falls. Some of our fire and DOT folks think that if drivers can still kind of see lane markers, they think the roads are fine and don't adjust their driving habits. But once you get 6"+ the roads and grass are covered and it clicks in people's heads. There was a pivot table buried somewhere on my work PC that shows the number of accident calls in our 911 call center and the snowfall LSR from Sterling over time. Once the 5", 6", 7" reports starting coming in, accidents dropped off fast. We thought it had to do with the time of day, but then realized that we were seeing 7" reports during the height of rush hour. 2.) A lot of DOTs were prepping for the weekend event and lost sight of what was in front of them. Some jurisdictions were focused on prepping for big plowing operations so the trucks that normally would support the brine treatment were swapped over to V-blade or large capacity plows.

Ah, the Wednesday night clipper. Left work in Gaithersburg, then got the call to come back and help figure out backfill for PD/FD on the 300+ calls pending in queue. My 8 hour day turned into a 20 hour day.

Can't find the 2nd disco thread leading up to the event. My search skills on this site are worse than a baby boomer. Happy God It Sucks day from a fellow GIS person.

Sadly, yes.

It's gonna be years until we get an event like that again.