Even in the lighter band, still have dendrites so snow growth still good upstairs. Love to track a dendrite as it gently falls from the sky (leesburg04 shoutout).
Don’t worry, Euro will be here in 30 mins to piss in your cheerios and give you 2” before the flip.
In all seriousness, I don’t trust the GFS at all with this storm.
It will either plant its flag as a reliable meso model and help “Make Canada Great Again” or it’ll be a reminder that the only good thing Canada is known for is to supply fresh highs for our blockbuster/CAD storms.
Wow at the 00z GFS. DC loses 700mb just before 18z and 0.5”+ QPF has fallen by 18z. I’d side with the 3k/Euro blend vs the GFS at this point but nice to see GFS in the RGEM camp with a nice thump for DC.
RGEM has snow starting ~6a in DC. Looks like about 0.4” QPF as snow extrapolating between the 3 hour panels on pivotalweather (likely flip to sleet ~11a)
They went from 3-7” to 3-6” for NW of 95. From 2-5” to 2-4” for 95. Seems reasonable given where we’ve been the last 48 hours.
And knowing the CWG, they’ll keep updating their map until the storm is over to make sure they can give themselves an A for their forecast.
00z 3k NAM is about an hour slower on the changeover to sleet in DC from 18z. Extrapolating about 0.35" would fall as snow through 16z which is when we'd flip (0.27" through 15z and 0.53" through 18z)