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Sun has taken a toll on the western MD snowpack. I can almost see my driveway again. Untouched areas are still probably 18-24".

Ellicott City MD: 39.235085, -76.792567 Oakland MD (technically Swanton but no one knows where that is): 39.499707, -79.275274

lolol i was thinking about posting similar but know this place is already a powder keg waiting to go off on any post. Honestly hope it stops snowing soon so boating season isnt delayed . With the way things are going i will have snow piles into june.

I saw a slanty stick measurement in the obs thread!

Pretty sure eastern HoCo isn't gonna get another 3" either.

Back to pixy flakes here, I think 1" might be our max. Whitened up the ice piles though!

Might be the best flakes of the season here in HoCo, big fatties dropping from the sky like a UA jet engine.

Shoveling this sleet is no joke. Heavy as heck. I had an 18" pile of sleet at the corner of the house where it all rolled off the roof. There is an icy crust underneath.

@psuhoffman might be onto something regarding our new "normal". Looking at the soundings from IAD, the warm layer is only +1c, but it seems in previous storms that layer would be near 0 and rates would overcome any melting. Now it seems we cannot overcome the warm layer and require a perfect setup at all layers to score snow in/around the cities. Even the closer in n/w burbs are sleeting with this storm.

Hey at least philly is getting a good 6-10 inches!

we can't even do sleet right. If the NAM starts showing issues you know the storm is toast this winter. I know we ran ERS off but he was right about thr king this year.

absolutely nothing within the snowhole.

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It did pretty well with the H in Colorado haha

Do you have a portable saw mill by any chance? A couple years ago I had a guy from up your way mill a couple oaks that I had taken down. Made some good furniture with them!

6-10" for the mountains would push seasonal total over 100". I would like to thank @nj2va for posting his winter wonderland pics the last several years for motivating me to look west!

This has been some great discussion and I thank you and the red taggers who have engaged. Could it be that the not ideal mid level low track now results in quicker warming than we have seen in the past? Where does the warm air come from, is it from the southern land or does the ocean water come into play here? Its almost like typical fall line storms are now fall line + 10 miles storms, meaning you need to be 10+ miles further north/west than in the past to get the same results, and those east of that line get mud.

Is the problem still at 700-800mb? Seems like soundings have consistently shown a warm nose and many mets in here have been pointing out southerly winds in the mid levels? This is all above my pay grade but would be interesting to compare the modeled mid level maps to previous storms and see what is different.

the first one wasn't the whole thing. a6 just posted the whole event map.

that will dude should be banned for posting an incomplete euro 6z map. he just suicided a bunch of weenies.

I'm tired of shoveling! Kids love the snow piles though. We ventured out to Swallow Falls over the weekend, it was great and not crowded at all.

you don't want free hardwood?

is there a long pump va? i cant imagine the settlers thinking short pump was a great name. kinda like forty fort pa.

Just measured 7" with light snow falling. kids can barely walk through the snowpack, I neee to invest in some snowshoes!

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