PrinceFrederickWx

Who else here is getting up at 2am on Friday to watch the lunar eclipse?

It was yet another winter that was compressed into January… but what a month it was! The 1/3 squall was awesome and the 1/6 MECS was one of my favorite storms ever. The arctic air plus the snowpack refreshers gave me snowcover for the entire month. It was the first time since January 2022 that it felt like deep winter IMBY. But… December was a shutout. March will be a shutout. February felt like a shutout too; I got one 9” storm that was completely gone within 36 hours, while the rest of the month torched. Then the big storm that missed us all. But I did finish above climo. A final grade is tough, but I’ll go with A- just because the January was so good it outweighs everything else.

Every March is nothing but wind.

Just FYI, the 1.0” “Dept. of highways” measurement at Prince Frederick that’s in LWX’s PNS reports is not accurate. I submitted 0.2” (same location) but it wasn’t posted for some reason. I have no idea how State Highway measured that; we didn’t have any snowcover before this either, so it can’t even be snow depth! That’s quite a slant stick lol

0.2” of powdery snow here. I’m just a little too far north on the radar. Sidewalks never fully caved despite it being lower 20’s for the entire event.

^Found the Berk sock

He does this every time: Boxing Day, Snowquester, etc… it’s like he wants to be “the guy that called it” in the one-in-a-million chance something happens.

6-8" for me... sure

Wow, I’m surprised it happened 14 times!

Can we get the HRRR on our side too when it's in range?

I thought that one was a general 2-4/3-6" storm on the models until the NAM suddenly gave us a HECS, but it's been so long I could be confusing it with another event around that time. This was back when I was on Accuweather forums so there's no way for me to check now.

Dec. 2009? While I think the other models had snow too, the NAM the day before was the first to show the beatdown IIRC Boxing Day (but in the other direction lol)

NAM led the way in Dec. 2009. I'm just sayin'

How often does it occur where DCA's seasonal snow total exceeds BWI?

Most of this thread should get a WWA level snow still... I think? Or maybe I hope LOL

My only real complaint with some of them is that they actually don’t know the climo. For example, Prince Frederick averages about 19” of snow seasonally, which is about the same as BWI. Same for Charles County and parts of St. Mary’s. Granted, I’m slightly climo+ this year and don’t expect that to hardly ever occur, but it also wasn’t normal to average 0-2” year after year like we have recently. I mean this isn’t supposed to be Miami- we do snow here occasionally, sometimes a lot. So there was a lot of normalizing the recent bad years as if that’s always how it’s “supposed” to be down here. Do treasure every storm, because the long term trend (i.e. the “elephant”) in the coming years is still probably not anyone’s friend.

There’s another thread discussion that’s been made for northern tier counties… as if dominating 90% of the main thread wasn’t enough for them already. I’m all for balkanization of the Mid-Atlantic subforum.

You don't often see an advisory map with all this at once.

That’s an insane gradient on the Euro. I know it follows the seasonal pattern, but it’s taken to a ridiculous extreme. I have a hard time believing it.

Our first true region-wide pump-and-dump scam this season. You all gonna buy the dip and hodl for the Euro?

We basically are finally having a winter where the regional precipitation pattern matches the other three seasons IMBY. On the other hand, we haven’t really had a true model pump-and-dump scam yet this year, which has been unusual. I might sell the top and move to cash instead of holding for this one.

This one is getting saved to my PC for posterity like the 1/19/16 GFS runs that showed 4 feet for Calvert.

The 1/6 storm snowcover lasted a month. This one lasted 36 hours.

Pann also infamously went too low in Snowmageddon part 1, though not nearly as bad as 2016.

9.1" storm total, and exactly 23" for the year, so I'm climo+ now. The next goal will be exceeding the 28.3" seasonal total in 2015-16 (the snowiest winter IMBY since I moved down here). Congrats to all in this thread; this has been our year for once!