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Down to 34° with rain and some snow mixing in. Crazy!

37° and half rain half snow northwest of Staunton in Augusta County

Down to 41° and moderate rain intensifyIng

Dropped from 61° around 6 o’clock to 45° now! It has been windy, but not crazy. NW of Staunton in Augusta County

Sitting at 20.6" here for the season, which is below my climo by about 5". I would give this winter a B for mby. The pouring sleet at 18 degrees, the resulting 3 week glacier, and then not going above freezing for a week and a half bumped it up to a B from a C in my opinion.

Karma is a bi$@#!

Last pics as it has moved on. I went on a snike (snow hike) just a few miles from my workplace. Beautiful!!

I knew it was going to snow today, but the accumulation is surprising. 35 degrees here in Augusta County NW of Staunton.

Down to 36 and pouring fatties with a little sleet mixing in! No rain at all in the last hour.

38 degrees and ripping fatties in Augusta County! Starting to accumulate in the woods and pavement by the tennis courts and the top of cars.

Snowing here in Augusta County 2 hours earlier than modeled NW of Staunton. 39 degrees.

About 1.5” here on grass and elevated surfaces. Some melting and compaction now. 33° and light rain currently.

Light snow with good sized flakes and 35 degrees here in Swoope, NW of Staunton in Augusta County.

6z GFS

My friends who live up there said SOME of the mountain cams showed up to 12" of snow, but that likely was snow drifts from the heavy winds. Looks like about 6" to me on that picnic table...

12z GFS and CMC. 6z Dr. No is still pretty much a no.

To each his own, but why stop in this storm thread just to say that? Why not leave us the hell alone if you aren't interested rather than pissing in our corn flakes? ...mind blowing lol A day off from work with my family and this forecast seems like a good way to wrap up winter to me!

Okay bro, whatever you need to tell yourself. Elliots Knob is 4463’, not 4500’. I was a whole 37’ off. It is almost like I rounded for simplicity sake. Also, I was a hell of a lot closer than you were when you called Wintergreen 3000’ when it is actually 3515’. That is 515’ off!!! You goofed way bigger than me on that! And I was dumb enough to believe you and regurgitated that in one of my replies. Lol Finally, the unofficial non NWS report was from 7:11, not 8:00 am as you said. As long as we are getting nit picky. You goofed on that, too. Lol

They got the memo that the GFS is the new King

YOU are calling psu mentally challenged? Jfc, why did I ever unmute you? My fault, everyone.

Data from satellites and NOAA doesn't support it at all. Most of the NWS snowfall reports come from NWS Employees, trained spotters, Park/ Forest Srvc, etc. Notice the one outlier on the map? It isn't an official NWS number. It is the number reported by the resort that has an incentive to over inflate its numbers. We are not hopeless because we use our brains and logic. Do you really think it is realistic that the only measurement of 15" of snow in Virginia came from a 3000' mountain in Nelson County? Not the 4500' mountains of northern and western Augusta County? Not the northern Shenandoah Valley? Do you think it is plausible that Wintergreen was the only measurement (outside of WV) of 15" of snow that is southwest of greater Philadelphia? Finally, I will just say this. My coworker Monica and her husband Chris live up there in a condominium and they told me they got 6", maybe 7" at the most. https://data.usatoday.com/projects/snowfall-accumulation-tracker/index.html https://www.weather.gov/lwx/pnsmap?type=snow @hstorm

Lol @hstorm

And you did call him ‘smartboy,’ which is what @hstormwas referring to

I am not arguing with you reporting the number. However, that isn’t some joker wandering around. It was a trained NWS spotter. Now, the guy who works at the ski resorts? Not so much. I am disputing the number because it is ridiculous. I didn’t know it came from the resort itself, or I would have known it was inflated. Thanks, @hstorm for comparing time stamps. I grew up in upstate New York and New England. It’s a well known fact that ski resorts inflate snowfall reports, since they have an economic interest in doing so. Again, not arguing with you, just disputing that number, which will definitely not be a part of the NWS record as a report from an NWS trained spotter.