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Radar hole down around Hburg not filling in. Really lightening up here in Vienna - pixie dust temps have not budged any since starting at 05:15. Now 28/27dp. About 3" otg atm

32/18 - down to freezing w/o the dp rising a tick...

33/18 - Just came back from getting "food" for my Kubota (see avatar). The atmosphere has that special feeling outside... Slight breeze from the NNE and variable.

NWS radar over TN/NC is intense. Large cells of deep red, nearly at the black level on the legend. That's more like a summer-time event than Feb. If even a percentage of that holds, the sn+ rates tomorrow am will be exciting.

Fantastic Bob - no doubt you are doing a lot of things the right way beyond being part of the foundation here. That's great. Can only imagine how proud your son is going to be too. Real life learning opportunities like this are too infrequent these days...

Bob, no doubt you were inoculated against having any chance of becoming jipolar a long time ago. Most of us received that immunity at a young age... Sitting at 6.5" here about a mile NW of Vienna. Picking up again....

6-1/4" just NW of Vienna on Lawyers Road. Looks to be some building down around Raleigh. Hope good stuff mentioned by the NWS for this afternoon makes far enough N&W to give us all some more. Wes should be in a prime location for that.

Great second pic of your son. The awe he must feel with what today has in store for him.... I'm nearly 60 years old and still feel the same. Only thing that changes is the way we have fun. Can't wait to get out in my Kubota and do the neighborhood. Typically plow our 450' driveway, 4 more adjacent to us that are longer, about 20 other driveways, a 1/4 mile of street and a mile or so of sidewalk along Lawyers road to Vienna. Hope your little man has a blast today!

If this were to really play out as illustrated on the NAM, suggest it would be a hands down BECS. Can barely read the posts as fast as they are coming in. If the NAM nails this, it will have dethroned king EURO.

24/21 - Nice rise in dp from when I went to bed. Hats off to all those who stayed up so those mere mortal weenie wannabes like me could get some sleep, wake up and quickly read about getting named overnight and new additions to webster's dictionary of meteorology terms "according to Jeb"

A "positive reverse bust" - I think.... hope..... pray... that is a 4 letter word that starts with B and ends in M?

WWA just extended up into lower PA...

27/16. Just went outside with my long time damaged/broken/disjointed finger/weather monitor - the digit started tingling immediately - yup, it's gonna snow.

Indeed - been like that all day. TN is barely 100 miles thick N-S. All those reds and oranges across the middle of TN and nada just N of Nashville. Brutal E/W cutoff along a 1300+ mile front.

Amazing at how the precipitation is being suppressed. Earlier this morning the precip line ran right along the KY/TN border - almost the entire length of it. Was gradually pushed southward over the last several hours. Is starting to gain some latitude, but very slowly... Given how much rain TX and LA received, and the deep greens in the flow, the nrn wall is a beast.

That was a great storm for us for many reasons. The 18th of Dec is my birthday for one. That aside, it was the best welcome home present our family could have hoped for. We'd just returned to the US that Fall from a few years in Thailand, where I may point out it don't snow... ever! (except inside the snow house at the Dreamworld amusement park). We'd just bought a new house on 30 Nov and moved in the first week of Dec 09. Also bought a small Kubota tractor with a front end loader the week before the storm to go along with my two Gravely walk behinds (our driveway is 500 feet long). The Kubota with loader, a blade on one Gravely and a blower on the other Gravely saved us and the neighbors. What a Dec that was, only to be followed by the back to back fun in Feb 2010. No snow this year for my b-day - darn it.