George BM

Three meters of snow in 2 days or 18"+/hr snowfall rates from a thundersnow squall would do.

Merry Christmas to you all and Happy Hanukkah to you Jewish posters! Be Merry! Enjoy the vultures tearing up presents and flying around the house at F-18 speeds! Be Bright! Listen to your oldest relatives crazy (and probably exaggerated stories) of all of the extreme weather events that they've been through... like tornadoes that gobbled them up from Kansas and spit them out into a strange colorful wonderland! Get Drunk! But not too drunk... eh what the hey! From this weenie to all you weenies. Have a wonderful holiday season.

IAD got down to 23F this morning with heavy frost. Trace accumulations everywhere. I'm counting it. Merry White Christmas fellow Wxweenies!

My friends my friends! Heads-up my friends! Area Forecast Discussion NWS GeorgeBM Headquarters 1:57PM EST Tuesday, December 24, 2019 A Potentially Life-Threatening Winter Storm will impact the region this afternoon into tonight Heavy rain and thunderstorms will move into the region this afternoon. These storms may contain severe hail. The most intense storms may have strong enough downdrafts to penetrate the low-level stable layer and bring some strong wind gusts to the surface. Precip will then change over to very heavy snow from west to east through the late afternoon/early evening hours as temps drop from the lower 50sF to near freezing. Snowfall rates may exceed 6 inches per hour and with the surface low bombing out over the central Chesapeake Bay wind gusts of around 70 to 75+ mph across the region will lead to whiteout conditions through the evening. The dangerous winds combined with the heavy wet snow will lead to widespread power outages and widespread tree damage. Blizzard Warnings have been hoisted for the entire forecast area. Areas from Northern VA, the WV Panhandle, through DC and much of Maryland and into North/Central Delaware will see snow totals of 30”-45”+ with snow-drifts that may exceed 20 feet. The snow will taper-off from west to east across the region between 1z and 5z before skies start clearing overnight with Wind Advisory-level winds continuing and temps slowly dropping into the upper 20sF. This is a potentially life-threatening storm that should not be taken too lightly. You should be prepared to be without power for an extended period of time. Near term... GBM

Other WxWeenies... Happy Ten-Year Anniversary of (probably) the best December snowstorm of your lives (in this region, at least).

@mappy Happy Ten-Year Anniversary of (what's probably (I'm not you, of course)) the best December day of your life!

How in the boogie woogies am I only hearing about this event now? This seemed like it was a good bit more epic than the already cool February 14, 2015 snow squall. Funny how this event is not brought up more frequently whenever we reminisce about past snow squalls. A bigly congrats on all of you snow weenies that were alive to witness this magical event in this region in person.

That's @stormtracker. @Bob Chill has the bunny-strangling issue.

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Baltimore MD/Washington DC 1147 AM EST Tue Dec 17 2019 DCZ001-MDZ003>006-011-013-014-016-503>508-VAZ031-037>040-050>057- 501-502-505-506-WVZ051>053-172100- /O.NEW.KLWX.FG.Y.0012.191217T1647Z-191217T2100Z/ District of Columbia-Washington-Frederick MD-Carroll- Northern Baltimore-Southern Baltimore-Prince Georges-Anne Arundel- Charles-Northwest Montgomery-Central and Southeast Montgomery- Northwest Howard-Central and Southeast Howard-Northwest Harford- Southeast Harford-Clarke-Albemarle-Greene-Madison-Rappahannock- Orange-Culpeper-Prince William/Manassas/Manassas Park-Fairfax- Arlington/Falls Church/Alexandria-Stafford-Spotsylvania- King George-Northern Fauquier-Southern Fauquier-Western Loudoun- Eastern Loudoun-Morgan-Berkeley-Jefferson- Including the cities of Washington, Hagerstown, Frederick, Ballenger Creek, Eldersburg, Westminster, Reisterstown, Cockeysville, Baltimore, Bowie, Suitland-Silver Hill, Clinton, College Park, Greenbelt, Laurel, Camp Springs, Glen Burnie, Annapolis, Severn, South Gate, Severna Park, Arnold, Odenton, St. Charles, Waldorf, Germantown, Damascus, Bethesda, Rockville, Gaithersburg, Silver Spring, Lisbon, Columbia, Ellicott City, Jarrettsville, Aberdeen, Berryville, Charlottesville, Stanardsville, Madison, Orange, Gordonsville, Culpeper, Dale City, Manassas, Woodbridge, Lake Ridge, Montclair, Reston, Herndon, Annandale, Centreville, Chantilly, McLean, Franconia, Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church, Falmouth, Fredericksburg, Dahlgren, Warrenton, Turnbull, Purcellville, Leesburg, Ashburn, Sterling, Paw Paw, Martinsburg, Charles Town, and Shepherdstown 1147 AM EST Tue Dec 17 2019 ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Visibility down to one quarter mile in dense fog. * WHERE...The District of Columbia, portions of central, northern and southern Maryland, central, northern and northwest Virginia and the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. * WHEN...Until 4 PM EST this afternoon. * IMPACTS...Hazardous driving conditions due to low visibility. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of distance ahead of you. && $$

You need to teach me your ways of extreme lucid day-dreaming.

Raising your son well I see.

I've actually been seeing some small snow flakes in Herndon for the last 20+ minutes.

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URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Baltimore MD/Washington DC 459 PM EST Fri Dec 13 2019 DCZ001-MDZ003>006-011-013-014-503>508-VAZ025>031-036>040-050>054- 501-502-505>508-WVZ051>053-140500- /O.NEW.KLWX.FG.Y.0010.191213T2159Z-191214T0500Z/ District of Columbia-Washington-Frederick MD-Carroll- Northern Baltimore-Southern Baltimore-Prince Georges-Anne Arundel- Northwest Montgomery-Central and Southeast Montgomery- Northwest Howard-Central and Southeast Howard-Northwest Harford- Southeast Harford-Augusta-Rockingham-Shenandoah-Frederick VA-Page- Warren-Clarke-Nelson-Albemarle-Greene-Madison-Rappahannock-Orange- Culpeper-Prince William/Manassas/Manassas Park-Fairfax- Arlington/Falls Church/Alexandria-Northern Fauquier- Southern Fauquier-Western Loudoun-Eastern Loudoun- Northern Virginia Blue Ridge-Central Virginia Blue Ridge-Morgan- Berkeley-Jefferson- Including the cities of Washington, Hagerstown, Frederick, Ballenger Creek, Eldersburg, Westminster, Reisterstown, Cockeysville, Baltimore, Bowie, Suitland-Silver Hill, Clinton, College Park, Greenbelt, Laurel, Camp Springs, Glen Burnie, Annapolis, Severn, South Gate, Severna Park, Arnold, Odenton, Germantown, Damascus, Bethesda, Rockville, Gaithersburg, Silver Spring, Lisbon, Columbia, Ellicott City, Jarrettsville, Aberdeen, Staunton, Waynesboro, Stuarts Draft, Harrisonburg, Strasburg, Woodstock, Mount Jackson, New Market, Winchester, Luray, Shenandoah, Stanley, Front Royal, Berryville, Lovingston, Charlottesville, Stanardsville, Madison, Orange, Gordonsville, Culpeper, Dale City, Manassas, Woodbridge, Lake Ridge, Montclair, Reston, Herndon, Annandale, Centreville, Chantilly, McLean, Franconia, Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church, Warrenton, Turnbull, Purcellville, Leesburg, Ashburn, Sterling, Big Meadows, Wintergreen, Paw Paw, Martinsburg, Charles Town, and Shepherdstown 459 PM EST Fri Dec 13 2019 ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT... * WHAT...Areas of dense fog with visibility around one-quarter mile. * WHERE...The Washington and Baltimore Metropolitan areas, central Maryland, northern Virginia, portions of central Virginia and eastern West Virginia. * WHEN...Until midnight EST tonight. * IMPACTS...Hazardous driving conditions due to low visibility. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of distance ahead of you. && $$

How much accumulated in Charlottesville?

How much did you get in San Francisco?

FYP.

"Tropical Downpours Raininon Santa" was another cool song from that album.

11/12: T (Flakes from time to time) 12/4: T (I woke up to wet ground. But with yellow/orange returns over me on radar overnight there were probably some wet snow flakes.) Snow total as of December 4, 2019: T

The HRRR has been 'bullish' on some convective showers moving through the DC metro between 20-22z this afternoon. With fairly steep lapse-rates from 600-700mb to the surface I wonder if anything frozen hits the ground in the most intense showers... assuming they form.

Ditto.

What should I put in the description of the Winter 2020-21 Discussion Thread?

Epic indeed. Well get our turn hopefully. I'd violently sacrifice a HECS for that.

January 1998.

The. 2nd. Of. December.