snowmagnet

We are just right for Miller A's

Still 58 in Fairfax. I love seeing drastic temperature drops, but I’m not staying up for this one.

It’s raining much earlier than I had expected based on what I read yesterday. I can only imagine that doesn’t bode well to get a changeover to snow. I guess the best we can hope for is snow showers on Friday.

I was trying to remember when this storm was. I went into a Caps game in Landover in a warm rainstorm. When we came out, everyone was freezing and we couldn’t find our car on the parking lot. That was a really memorable day.

I saw the snowpack up your way on Saturday when I was in Hampstead. Really nice start to the season up there.

Love it! Thanks Master Yoda!

I was stuck at 32.5 for several hours. Finally around 31 now. It still is raining, but sounds a bit more icy, maybe changing over a bit.

It's pretty moderately snowing big flakes here in Fairfax/Centreville, just west of FFX City. Hoping the snow lasts a while longer before the changeover. On the Euro, we were fairly consistently on the western edge of the line of "have" and "have a heck of lot less". I just measured 1.75" I think thats more than last year's total.

I know everyone here is looking for something to keep us in the game tomorrow. Living in the DMV for almost all of my life has shown me that winter storms around here (especially coastals) are pretty unpredictable. All week I’ve known that I could get anywhere from 1-12” IMBY depending on the Low. At this point, 12” is not in the cards for me, but I’ve seen plenty of storms that have significantly over performed when everyone thought it was over. Most of us find much of the fun in tracking winter storms. So whatever happens tomorrow, we had a good early storm to get us ready for a potentially eventful winter. At least some of you will have plenty to measure tomorrow.

Might help me in western FFX

It seemed like no one was posting on this page for several days. Now we are all like "when do we start tracking the next storm?"

It seems really quiet on here all of a sudden. I guess we are all on pins and needs waiting for the almighty Euro....

I’m not sure about that. My mom would always watch channel 4 and I couldn’t stand him. I remember, even as a kid and teen, he would usually underestimate totals and then constantly have to increase totals. I might have a slightly skewed memory from being a snow lover since birth, but he never earned my trust. I grew up in Charles Co where we were often underestimated because we were south of the Fall line, but in many cases, we ended up with colder temperatures and MUCH higher totals than forecasted.

And then he would have to keep upping his totals every half an hour.

Over

You must live in the 20” plus zone. Dec 2009 was about 2 ft at my house in Fairfax Co. I doubt this one will beat it.

I think a lot of us are feeling that way. It's been a completely sucky year and Mother Nature needs to throw us a bone. I lost my father last month, not due to COVID, and tracking a snowstorm in December is the most fun I've had for quite a while!

I'm just west of Fairfax City. You most definitely will see more snow this year.

I was thinking the same thing. I'm in FFX county just west of FFX City inside that comma zone. We almost always do very well in these kinds of coastals. The maps usually underestimate the frontogenesis dynamics.

I wouldn't necessarily count out Southern MD. They often get overlooked in these kinds of storms. I grew up in Charles County and often they get surprised with higher totals in Coastal lows.

Nice!

Jan 2016 did. About a week out. The only question was, who would get 2 feet and who would get 3!

I know it's still early in the season and I am less than a weather amateur, but I know we have had several significant snowstorms just a couple of days after having 60's and 70's.

I just recall Dec 17, 2009 that started one of our biggest seasons.

If I remember correctly, isn't Dec. 17th the anniversary of our Dec. 2009 storm? Forgive me if this was already discussed. I haven't read through all the pages...