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I mean there is potential systems out there in an active pattern, you know you gotta sniff rain to get a big dog too. I'll take this look over CAD any day.

Too many Eeyores around here. I am pretty sure other than Iowa, most of us are at or above normal for the season.

The added SPECI for snow start and stop helps fluff things up but ya, its been busy. Last month I almost had as many SPECI as METAR

28 here last month during a snowstorm/squall day, the most anyone has had in the records we had going back to 2016.

I had 18 SPECI yesterday, that was a bit of hard money

With the snow today its 21 days in a row with snow here at DTW. I am tired

Has someone in this subforum not gotten snow?

Their snowfall total included sleet accumulation. It wasn't just snow. Sleet counts as snowfall accumulation when you measure at a FAA facility for NWS climate data. Most of the time the ratio will fall at around 3:1 as Roger reported above. I have measured snow before at 2 separate stations here in MI in the past, so I have direct experience in this.

Their 6.9" report gels with everything around them.

The snow amount for DCA is right.

Correct Fozz, it's like my snow totals in SEMI vs where the White Lake office is. There is a higher elevation away from the water.

The last SWO at DCA was MR and you are incorrect here. They actually hand measure snow.

Hi, so this isn't to stir up anything but I just wanted to address this post and a couple others. I know there have been issues in the past at DCA but the current SWO there isn't the one from the past. The current SWO is a former coworker of mine who I helped train to observe. I trust his number fully as he worked 2 shifts over the weekend as well. The microclimate of the Potomac River Valley does play here though. I wouldn't expect DCA to have as high of a value as IAD or BWI considering their locations. I just wanted to help address this issue a bit since I know some of the information and I have seen what has been done there in the past with respect to snow measuring.

Is there an expectation of a 20" storm here? There has only been 1 since 1880 and it was in 1886. 1 in Flint in 67 and 2 in Saginaw in 67 and 78. This isn't a location that even remotely sniffs 20" storms ever. Boston does because they have the luxury of the ocean and Nor'easters. This isn't a reservation on you just on the discussion in general. I don't know why the same people bring this up seemingly every year and multiple times a year. It is like they never read climo for the region.

4.8" at home 4.9" here at Metro. Not the biggest storm but not bad and this storm had a decent amount of liquid so it won't just melt or sublimate away quickly.