Hank Scorpio

Wouldn't surprise me if they messed up the silt fencing. Lots of removing and reinstalling the other day when they were grading the lot, which I guess they'll have to do again tomorrow. At least now I know that drain works, haha.

Played the age old "will the silt fencing hold?" game this evening.

Totally agree. So many bugs out there, and so many that I've either never seen before or don't see often. This thing was crawling on a wall the other day and must have been 3-4 inches long. No idea what it is, but it looked like something that shouldn't be messed with.

Was fortunate to get under one of those pulsing cells last night and picked up a quick 0.6 inches, or so says the closest PWS. Also had one of those "thunder simultaneous with the lightning" experiences, which always gets your attention.

You know how the saying goes: January sleet showers bring April flowers and snow showers. Something like that, right?

Those are some fine looking pies, nice work. What temperature are you baking at in the big green egg? I've been using a baking steel for a while now and that made a huge improvement in how me pizza turned out. I just got an Ooni pizza oven though and am really excited to see where that can help me take things. Also, totally agree on the 72 hour cold ferment. The exact same recipe cold fermented for 24 hours vs 72 hours turns out so much better when given more time.

You're very welcome! I make pizza every week and spent a lot of time researching and testing to figure out what I was doing wrong, haha. Always happy to talk technique and answer any questions that pop up.

Two things that might help next time you try. First, try re-balling the dough 6ish hours before you actually wanna make pizza. Good quick video of what that means here. Should help avoid the dough stretching so thin that you get holes. Second, make sure you pull the dough out of the fridge at least a couple of hours before you start stretching it. The number one culprit of dough that doesn't wanna stretch (and ends up too thick around the edges) is being too cold. A close second place culprit is dough that has been handled too much. Also, here's the bacon + gorgonzola + apple pizza I made last week

There are some good videos on YouTube that'll give you an idea of what to expect. But in general, if you have a lot emerge in your neighborhood, there's a loud and constant background noise and big bugs everywhere.

Just went out for a quick jebslide and the freezing mist has certainly made itself known. Interestingly though, where they salted roads in the neighborhood, conditions aren't too bad. Still icy, but with lots of little bits of exposed pavement.

Any chance you might know of a similar resource for VA? I love cruising around topo maps, and even though you're MD based, I figure there's still no one better here to ask about maps.

We didn't get much, if any, snow but same situation here. Plows came through the neighborhood and pushed the 2+ inches of sleet off to the sides, but that just means the streets are a sheet of ice now. Some of that sleet they plowed ended up piled up 6" deep on my driveway apron, so I shoveled that to prevent a mega glacier, but left my driveway itself alone. So much easier to walk on sleet than straight up ice.

12 hours before the storm began, here's what the hourly forecast looked like. Not picking on the NWS here since this is what most were forecasting, but it's actually impressive how differently this storm ended up for a huge chunk of the forum. From winter storm warning with hours of heavy snow expected to a few hours of heavy sleet, quite the difference from forecast to reality.

Third time this winter having been in the LWX 6-8" zone the night before a storm and then ultimately busting way low. Still got to go sledding with my son a bunch this winter which is always fun, but man oh man has it been a winter of unmet expectations. Currently 26 with light freezing rain.

Been freezing rain during lighter returns and mostly sleet during heavier returns in Ashburn. Untreated roads are pretty sleeted up, but anywhere in the neighborhood where they tossed some salt down is totally fine.

Flurrying again in Ashburn. Best rates of wave one were yesterday when it was 40 degrees before eventually flipping to rain after the temperature dropped to 33, lol.

Time sensitive, but this radar loop does a great job of showing how persistent banding has been in the region since yesterday evening: https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/index.php?parms=LWX-N0Q-0-200-100-usa-rad

I happened to check radar back at like 4:45 just before that big band moved into Loudoun, in time for my 3 year old and me to get our snow gear on and head out with the sled. Ended up sledding in mod/heavy snow for 1.5 hours and had a blast. Certainly a surprise and puts this storm in a much more positive light. Using the NWS accepted and highly accurate eyeball it method, looks like we picked up a quick 1.5 - 2 inches.

Agreed. Once the splotches moved overhead here in Ashburn rates finally picked up. Still light, but it's accumulating again.

I always think it's fun to view things from a non-weenie perspective. If I had paid zero attention to this storm all week, and then I woke up tomorrow morning to mod snow with a forecast for 10" would I be bummed? Hell no! If I can pick up 6" tomorrow and get outside all day to sled with my 3 year old, does it really matter that some patch of PA ended up with two feet? Nah, and we'll have fun regardless

Even within Eastern Loudoun, there are little micro climates. Very consistently, going from 400ft on belmont Ridge to the airport at 300ft, there's a difference. Not so much noticeable right after the snow stops, but definitely noticeable after a few days once the snow starts to melt. Very common for snow to hang on in the shadows at 400ft while it's about gone at 300ft, 5 miles away, a week after the storm.

I got you, friend

This stuff moving into Ashburn now is sleet instead of freezing rain which is nice, since the trees were starting to get pretty heavy. Hoping the changeover doesn't stall out just to the west... I see it creeping past upperville toward philomont now. That terrain is up in the 500-600 foot range though

Ended up with something like 3 inches of snow in Ashburn, then a bunch of sleet, and now the freezing rain is doing a pretty decent job of glazing trees.

Officially considered ripping fatties in Ashburn. I checked the weenie handbook to confirm