This interface is very slow and seems to rely on third party data for the underlying base map. Given the antecedent challenges with NWS IT infrastructure their move to this product was, IMO, short sighted. I prefer the old radar because it was faster to load, easier to interpret, and still worked when you had limited data connection.
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Yea I made the point to shovel out completely yesterday because I saw the MOS guidance was screaming OVC all day today and knew it whatever I didn't clear off wasn't melting today. My 4 year old single stage snow blower that's only been used once refuses to work now after starting up flawlessly in October, so I can only infer it sacrificed itself to the snow gods.
That was a good early season snow boom. 12z RAOB from IAD show the mid levels were about 2 or 3 degrees colder than even the meso guidance. Everyone wet bulbed right down towards freezing and held there and it was a clusterf*ck on the roads. We had like a 15 car accident on I-270 in Hyattstown that jacked everything up.
On Sterling's radar it appears that we have a sustained streamer coming over the mountains and down in the NW suburbs of DC. Looking at the terminal radars (BWI, ADW, DCA), the precip might event be making it to the ground towards the bay.
M0.1" new snowfall on the snow board in Reisterstown. 26/23
With snow on snow that reinforces the snow we've now achieved Tier II of the Eskimo Joe Snowfall Pyramid of Success™.