09-10 analogy

Just heard my first thunder

Elizabethan collars help to prevent the doggies from feasting

Is there an equivalent to a dendritic growth zone when it comes to forecasting cicada accumulations? Looking forward to walking through Rock Creek Park or Glover Archibald once the little guys have come for afternoon tea. Ought to be quite the chorus.

With debris in the air

Moderate risk for most of the Carolinas on Thursday as well. Shades of April 14-16 2011, an outbreak that's been kind of forgotten, given what happened later that April and May.

This storm would put me way above climo if it was measured in decibels rather than inches.

Near-bombardment of sleet now

Mostly sleet here now with a little FZRN mixing in. Started out light to mod snow but then changed over pretty quick.

Finally some light flakage in up nw

Pesci's character beats the hell out of Frank Vincent's (Batts in "Goodfellas") in "Raging Bull," too. I always liked that in "Casino," Scorsese finally gave Vincent (Frankie) the opportunity to get back at Pesci (Nicky Santoro) in the cornfield. Additionally, that scene was a necessary counterpoint to "Field of Dreams," a movie I thought was dreadful. Liotta was in that one, too. Now that I think about it, there's some sort of conspiracy going on here.

Amazing map. Just about every state west of the Appalachians has some kind of winter-related alert.

Chiming in, in upper NW cars are encased and there is growing accretion of ice on trees. I can tell untreated sidewalks are probably an invitation to a hard fall so I’ll be “enjoying” this from the inside looking out. There’s a little sleet but mostly FZRN.

So that means, in exchange, we get an outbreak of EF3s-5s this spring? Or a June 23, 1944 outbreak redux, displaced 100-200 miles or so to the east?

Side streets covering up nicely in upper nw. Since my house faces north I still had some snow on the ground from last weekend. Most of my front yard is pretty much shadowed from the sun all day at this time of year. So, at least IMFY, this is the much-desired snow on top of snow. I never got too invested in this one for some reason, so my ruling passion is ambivalence for today. Passionate ambivalence is not a bad way to come to grips with a lot of life’s little PITAs.

Shoveling was, unexpectedly, not bad. I shoveled Sunday but then the ice/sleet accreted, so I dreaded having to hack away at that once I removed the new layer of snow. But it came up easily enough and in places where it didn't, like on the brick entrance to the house, I just whacked at it a time or two with the shovel and it loosened up. I rather like shoveling soft snow -- though I'm not as much of a fan of it than Jeb -- but shoveling ice, like walking on it, is a pain. I guess being above freezing always helps Probably should have shoveled yesterday to be a Good Citizen and all that, but I was pissed about the storm. Remarkable how, starting late yesterday, my opinion on this turned around. This really was a unique event, even though it never got above what I consider low-to-moderate intensity here. But it's hard to find much fault with a 54-hour or so duration event. Absolutely beautiful walking around as it got light this morning. And it looks like there's a little more incoming?

Just measured about 2.5" on the deck before I hit ice. I measured a bit over 2.5" late Sunday, so I'm at least 5" for the whole event and maybe more depending on the great Compaction spirit. Side roads around here are mostly snow covered.

Yeah I’ve had to change my assessment of this one. The sheer persistence of this thing is remarkable. 48 hours of mostly frozen precipitation. And this band is great. Even getting a little wind. I think part of it is my tendinitis in both shoulders is bothering me from not being able to go to the gym, so I’m cranky.

Just woke up to work, couldn't sleep, and see that it's snowing a little again. I guess I'll have to pull up the radar ..

Largest flakes I’ve seen so far. Not heavy but pretty under the streetlights. And I can just tell by looking that I wouldn’t want any part of vehicular travel tonight.

It’s OK here in Tenleytown but rippage it ain’t.

Steady SN now

I can actually look out the window now and lose count of the number of flakes falling. That’s a first for today and is really stretching the definition of “looking on the bright side.”

I guess 1-3” rates per 36 hours doesn’t rate an MD.

Some flakes mixing in occasionally in up nw

Moderate sleet in up nw