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Absolutely. Downstate New Yorker born and raised here. I’m from a town called Stony Point, NY. Lived there from childhood through college, when I went off to Buffalo (it was a snowy and cold state school and far away from my hometown) Saw some absolutely incredible nor’easters over the years living in the NW NYC suburbs. PD 1 and 2, 96, Boxing Day, the infamous Christmas storm that featured heavy rain to over a foot of snow within roughly 6 hours… the list is long. I miss the snowier winters up there, but the snow was almost a given. The chase from living down here is part of the fun!

It truly is an incredible phenomenon. 1-2 feet of snow in a given area - drive 15 mins in a given direction, and you’d find bare ground. Wild. The tools they use at NWS to pinpoint their location and intensity are amazing and vastly different than analyzing snowfall from a low pressure system. I freakin’ love reading their forecast discussions up there .

I remember there being roughly 48 hours of local media frenzy in buffalo before it hit. It wasn’t last second, but it wasn’t a ton of a notice either.

It’s still absolutely ripping out there in central MD. Band has weakened ever so slightly as it moves east and the coastal continues to crank offshore, taking the best energy with it, but man, it’s still quite impressive out there. All hail, king revamped GFS

I remember that 07 winter quite well. Insane… absolutely insane LES that year. I’ll never forget it. I went to visit my girlfriend at Oswego State and got stuck there for a week because it snowed a solid 1-2 feet everyday for 4-5 days straight. My car vanished under snow in the school lot.

I witnessed some doozies - the October storm, among others. Lake effect events there are always the best (2-3” per hour rates and 1+ foot of snow within mere hours) but we also saw a fair share of solid synoptic snowfalls during the winters of 06-11 from inland runners. Amazing winters up there. I don’t miss those bitter cold Canadian winds though.

That’s a MocoHoco death band if i’ve ever seen one

As somebody who lived in Buffalo for 5+ years, I can confirm this is the exact type of snow / accumulation seen with Lake Effect. 2” per hour of the fluffiest snow you’ll ever see stemming from a near picture perfect atmosphere for dendrite growth. Pretty rare we see these types of flakes down here. Amazing.

According to future radar, that band should remain over central MD through 4 AM. Could easily see 5-6” reports appearing in N HoCo N BalCo based on current obs and reported totals.

The fluffyness of this snow is unreal.

Definitely saw some very solid storms over the years down near turf valley, but also found myself on the RS line frequently while places 10-15 miles N / NW of me saw several inches more. Finally made the move and the slight change in latitude and elevation has paid dividends for sure. With that being said - I saw less than an inch IMBY on Monday, while my brother saw 6”

It was. Soundings had 27:1 ratios at the height - even at BWI

Union bridge?! That’s awesome man. I moved here from south of 70 in Howard county. Paid off big time last winter.

The mega band must be hitting the Columbia EC area. My brother just texted me losing his mind with excitement

Taught them well, you have.

MLK day is looking like it has serious potential for a major east coast storm. Details to be ironed out later but dayum, the second half of the month could be epic.

Get ready HoCo

If we can manage these rates until 4 am, 6” is definitely verifiable.

Think we’re too far south to see any effects from the pivot once the coastal fully takes over (rapidly happening as we speak). Typically how these transfer situations go for us. We pray we cash on the WAA slug before the coastal robs the energy — mission accomplished! Can see clearly from the movement of bands off the Atlantic being throw NNW into NYC proper and the convection off the NJ coastline that the coastal low has gotten going in a big way and will continue to rapidly intensify. Boston about to get the smack down layeth on it.

Man, if only that coastal popped further south. Moisture feed off the Atlantic is impressive to say the least

Someone between E NJ and Boston will see a foot out of this thing, no doubt.

My brother says it’s puking down by him in ellicott city Had a brief slow down up here in UB, but heavier returns are back overhead. It’s perfect out there

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Leesburg should be getting hit by that mega death band any moment

Radar over Maryland looks impressive AF