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@Maestrobjwa - Posting here just some additional thoughts. Didn't want to clog the main thread up. You've definitely come a long way since you joined us on the forums! You just have to remember - unlike getting a Christmas or birthday gift that sucks (where maybe you deserved better) - the weather and climate doesn't "owe" you anything. Literally not a penny, not a single snowflake. You flip a coin 10 times and you might easily get heads 8 times. You flip that coin a trillion times, and it's going to be closer to 50/50. But yeah - unfortunately, our location (perhaps worse for you) is in an urban corridor. The odds of us getting shellacked are lower now than in the 1800s for sure. But now we have UHI, etc. I know we throw around the "you'll just have to move" idea a lot jokingly (and sometimes seriously) on the forums - but unfortunately...if your well being is fused this closely to snow - you really will have no choice but to move to a place like Davis, WV! Just remember - weather doesn't pay out like a slot machine that is "due" pays out. It's truly chaotic and "random"

We'll probably get told to move to banter - but again - it's often "just how the chips fall" I will say - you have to consider that you live in an urban corridor. I won't have the climate change discussion here - but there's also the warming. Some of your misses will just be that it missed a lot of us and you were included. Some of the misses will be because you were just a little too warm (being in the urban corridor and/or closer to the bay), some will be because the precip slid to the south (other people will get screwed in this too). You have to keep in mind and remember that while yes - maybe your backyard has done poorly - the entire region as a whole has been in a multi-year snow slump for quite a while. Everything feels worse when it's your backyard. It's not the weather targeting your street address or even neighborhood though. I think a lot of just in our heads - obviously we care more about our backyards than any other area - so the "misses" feel personal sometimes - they aren't.

What do you mean has something changed? Every storm has winners and losers for the most part. Sometimes we just get "missed" relative to other areas. Just how the chips fall.

Temp has been EXTREMELY slow to tick down. Sitting now at 34.3. Has definitely fallen a bit - back to no winter precip here.

34.9 with mainly rain still. Now that some heavier returns are arriving there are a few mangled flakes coming down too - but certainly not all snow at the moment.

35.2 here - down from the high of 36.9 earlier.

My temperature still seems to be rising. Near my high of the day at 36.7 now.

Sitting at 35.4 on the Ambient and 33.1 on the cheaper brand thermometer right now. I did not expect to wake up to steady snowfall by any means. I think we obviously might be hard pressed to get 5 inches...but to those realists out there - I'm not sure much has changed appreciably. It wasn't even supposed to "crank" until the afternoon. But naturally the worriers will wring their hands and anxious-post all morning. It's going to snow for most of us - how much remains to be seen - but arctic cold is arriving. Can you imagine how bad it would be in here if we had nonstop 60s and shut the blinds?

Tons of factors for temp variations. Of course we can broad brush temperature "zones" but so many factors can impact temps even down to a street-to-street level. Existing snowpack might be more plentiful at one location versus another, proximity to water matters, urban density matters, wind direction (even if light), heck...even the exact site of a thermometer matters (if the placement is "to code")

Elevation is not the sole determining factor of microclimate temp variations. Consider that Baltimore, MD is closer to the Chesapeake Bay which will always have some impact. Urban density also matters.

It says “may approach” and “at times”

They've salted my road into oblivion... So I'd actually welcome a good rain at this point to clear it before our HECS

I remember a few "decent" ice storms during my lifetime. I was too young to remember 1994, however. Anyway - I guess this antecedent cold could foreshadow an increased ice storm threat as Bob Chill mentioned!

Legit ice storms are super rare - and even when they happen they are usually in pretty narrow corridors. Paging @Eskimo Joe - because he's a bit of a sick puppy and roots for a once in 500 year ice storm at some point. I mean it would be "cool" to experience - but the destructiveness of ice storms and not having power for weeks doesn't sound appealing. I've got a standby generator but not sure it could go weeks running nonstop....it's just a Generac!

He didn't exclude 2016 - it is implied that it is included in his 10 year cycle comment.

Nah - way more. If a dime is the 7 inches I just got with this one - eh - nvm the brain doesn't want to do the math right now

I want a buck fifty

Up until the 2010 storms (and really until the 2011 storm), MoCo consistently forgot about my street. They've been worlds better the past few years - sometimes we'll even see a plow before the snow has even stopped and additional ones after. I'm a little surprised we haven't seen one yet with it not being double-digit snow. But I'm guessing it'll be at some point before noon today. With the frigid temps, my guess is they had to exit the subdivisions to spot treat icy spots on the major arteries.

No plowing or salting yet on my side street of Colesville, MD! Low of 19.2 which I am at right now.

Bold of you to still be willing to put your drone up with all the drone crap going on! I haven't flown mine in a while now with Remote ID being a requirement now and the drone swarms occurring in various places. Obs: Snow coming down here again!

Of course there's a chance. Just like every winter there's a chance we get nothing.

Snow is so weird/fun to watch on radar. Behaves so differently than a line of thunderstorms, for example.

Radar to my west is improved. Looks like that activity should come through and provide another boost to the snow. Who knows if it'll amount to much!

Looks like around 5.2" for the total so far in Colesville. told coworker originally 3-6 and then 4-8. Then last night I bumped up to 5-10 with isolated higher. Kind of wishing i had stuck in my original range. It'll still "hit" but let's see what the PM stuff can do.

There have been several runs of a few models that have shown hints of a monster storm. But of course - it's far out and the shortwaves responsible aren't even in clear view yet.