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  1. dukeblue219
    Yeah, sort of between DTSS and Four Corners. Roads are as driveable as a summertime drizzle. Back deck is an ice rink. Shrug!
  2. dukeblue219
    Same deal in Silver Spring: it's been raining and sleeting on and off all day at 27 degrees, but very little is accumulating on trees or powerlines, and even our quiet neighborhood street is not slippery. Ice on the car and back deck looks nice but no real consequences yet.
  3. dukeblue219
    Can anyone explain to me why my car and my kids' Cozy Coupe are covered in solid ice with 6" icicles all over, but the trees and shrubs are not? Basketball goal and net are just wet with no icicles. Is it raining too hard to accumulate on hanging items so it only ices on stuff with large flat surfaces?
  4. dukeblue219
    Much better rates now in Silver Spring with that radar burst overhead. If only it was snow... Ice is fun for no one.
  5. dukeblue219
    It's 27.7 in Silver Spring but the rain is really just a mist. There's some ice on the car but I don't see anything of note on the trees or bushes. Certainly no drooping or crackling of any sort. It'll take a long time at these rates to get anything of significance, not that I'd go for a drive right now.
  6. dukeblue219
    Sitting at 32.4/32.4 with a sleety mix for hours now in Silver Spring. The grass is whiteish but the front walk is a slushy disaster. If temps drop a degree or two overnight it's going to get really icy out there.
  7. dukeblue219
    All or nearly all sleet near downtown silver spring. 32.5 degrees. Grass has a white coating but it's well under a half inch.
  8. dukeblue219
    37.9 degrees and the front edge of the radar was instant snow in Silver Spring. Not sticking obviously.
  9. dukeblue219
    People saying the last few model runs are a non-event for most of the forum are losing it... Come on folks. We're looking at multiple inches of snow and all kinds of cold air. Not every system can be a HECS.
  10. dukeblue219
    Ehh... For DC proper that gradient is brutal.
  11. dukeblue219
    I've never seen snowflakes this big in my life. Some of these parachutes or whatever you call them are 2" or larger easily.
  12. dukeblue219
    Holy mother of all fatties falling right now.
  13. dukeblue219
    Well, the neighborhood streets have cleared and cars are starting to drop their coats now that the snow has lightened substantially. There's about an inch of slop on the grass still and the trees look wintry at least. (near downtown silver spring)
  14. dukeblue219
    Those clown maps are really a joke for events like this with marginal temperatures. The odds of the eastern shore and southern Maryland getting 8" while DC and Rockville got 4" with temps near 33 was low. Im slowly learning to trust the QPF and climo rather than the snow maps verbatim when temperature is even a maybe.
  15. dukeblue219
    I'm near DTSS, about a mile north of the tip of DC (and inside the beltway) where we have heavy wet snow falling. It's accumulating on all surfaces but I can tell it's only the rates keeping streets white; there's been a pretty consistent 1/4" coating for an hour now despite heavy snow. Eta steady 32.4 degrees.
  16. dukeblue219
    I'm not sure I buy it verbatim, but my sympathies to our Baltimore residents.
  17. dukeblue219
    In the last 30 minutes it's gone from all rain and 34 to mostly big wet flakes and 32 near DTSS. I should have just slept later.
  18. dukeblue219
    Steady rain and 34.0 degrees near downtown Silver Spring. Blerg.
  19. dukeblue219
    Canceled plans for the kids tomorrow 24 hours out when we had to make the call. Will be disappointing if little happens tomorrow given how hard it is to arrange covid-safe kids activities in winter. Oh well. Bring on the snow!
  20. dukeblue219
    Because it's ALWAYS 36 in downtown DC while people in Rockville are reporting 29.
  21. dukeblue219
    Snow depth maps are usually ugly, so I wouldn't worry.
  22. dukeblue219
    Science and weather especially are full of uncertainty. They just express it better than most. I'll take their range forecasts over "Joe From Channel 5 here calling for 6 inches of snow" But I know you know that.
  23. dukeblue219
    Yeah I remember driving only a mile home from visiting a pediatrician's office with a very pregnant wife that night. I think it was around Jan 12 of 2016? The roads were impassable after only MAYBE an inch of snow and the various DOTs got hammered for it. I think that's still part of the reason they overtreat now.
  24. dukeblue219
    Wow, what a pleasantly overperforming snow this morning. This is our best steady snow of the storm so far in DTSS. Looks like a solid inch on the driveway I shoveled last night. Love it!
  25. dukeblue219
    Very light snow now in Silver Spring. Hey, at least it's better than than watching those radar blobs pass us by all morning.
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