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If BWI for the High stays at 32, it will be 2nd coldest high for 12/09 on record. Edit: Also 2nd Coldest Min Temperature with 14 this AM

Apparently there is no fun allowed in Harrisonburg.

There was fairly steady contraction in the virga hole on the north side of KLWX which is upstream of even northern MoCo/HoCo. The signs were there that it was gonna do the thing.

December 5th Magic is back baby! Jebwalkin’ time.

It took 8 hours, but it got it done!

Woke up to check progress. Snow was getting steadily closer to the surface for the past 4 hours, but has stalled a bit in the last hour. It's trying to go through the really dry layer now.

Reading the METAR and watching the OVCxxx trend lower is the poor man's ceilometer.

Unless you got a radar I don't know about. The airport has a celiometer, but it just reports the first layer of strongest returns.

Randy, I'll have you know that I glaze my donuts them to perfection. No crust here.

So begins the painful watching of the dry air getting eroded.

Birdie told me that the 00z LWX Balloon recorded a RH of 3.7% RH at 1300m AGL tonight.

s/w over central high plains is notably more pronounced in past few runs of GFS helping our poor flattened out s/w get slightly more ageostrophic winds overhead us. Now, that says nothing about the metric ton of dry air between 925 and 850 left behind by the passing subsidence/high. You can have all the lift at 500 in the world and still not get precipitation at the surface if your spread at 925 is -5/-30.

Welcome. Don't let the 's scare you. In the end it's just frozen water. The journey is sometimes more exciting than the event.

I may be a simple man, but I see this (Euro Ensemble) for a daytime event in the 1st week of December. I'm not complaining (edit: yet).

Totals for liquid might be a little low near the M/D line due not capturing snow/sleet.