Sparky

oh yeah I saw that.

Getting heavy rain with loud thunder.

I noticed something like that but there was an occasional boom of thunder. But on one specific occasion I saw a bolt of lightning, the actual zigzag bolt not just a flash, opened the door to listen to the thunder but it never came. Also had nickel sized hail around 11:30pm - midnight. Another storm apparently hit around 4am but I slept through it, but I noticed some wind damage around the house, large branches down, lot of blossoms on my Yoshino Cherry ripped off.

Just would like to hear thunder and see some lightning in the wee hours tomorrow.

The "Money Look" seems like a complicated setup from your diagrams, no wonder it is on the rarer side. That aside, many if not most of our big dumpers tend to slow down as they are climbing up the eastern seaboard. What is that attributed to? What prevents them from hauling ass into that large elongated area of low pressure stretched across the northern atlantic?

That was a nice storm even for Baltimore ~ 10 inches and cold.

I didn't get as much as some folks to the south but what I got was pure powder. Finished with 5.75" which melted down to 0.33" for a 17:1 ratio. I think the .33 was pretty much along the lines of most guidance except probably the last NAM runs ha ha.

Enjoy your wet pavement.

I'm in a pretty good band now. Best rates I have seen since around midnight. Should put me over 5".

C'mon baby Parr's Ridge is waiting to catch you.

Getting close to a nice looking green band. Where's my lasso?

Except he qualified it saying I would have 4 by dusk on Saturday ha ha.

4.5”

Been in some decent rates for a while. Prob topped 3”.

The band in south Carroll and Frederick is making a move to the north now .... stretching north I should say.

Getting a nice uptick in dendrite growth now.

Adequately sized dendrites are falling.

I'm starting to think I have a shot with the latest model runs today.

Deck dusting.

Detecting sarcasm.

First flakes.

Awesome!

Really dry air up here dewpoint hovering in lower single digits. Delay of onset?

Nice pivot all the way back into Carroll.

PD II (25.5" IMBY) was the storm that could have eclipsed the Blizz of '96 (30") in my backyard if it weren't for the changeover to sleet Sunday night for several hours. I figure it would easily have reached 35"+ if all snow. But every other thing about that storm was plain boring compared to '96. There was very little wind, little drifting, and even the snowfakes were small and unimpressive to watch falling. The flakes in '96 were smallish too, but not quite as small. But '96 had some kickass wind on Sunday evening and through the night into Monday morning which gave it a genuine blizzard look and feel. Drifting was about as impressive as I have ever seen. Mind you it is pitch black at night where I live but whenever I flicked on the floodlights on Sunday night to see the action all I could see was a sideways curtain of snow blowing around the house. I could barely see the darkness of the woods that lie about 100 feet in the back. The only other storm that gave me that '96 look and feel was the 2/10/10 blast (27" IMBY) which had much larger dendrites to enjoy and was compressed into a shorter period of time with heavier rates. 2/10/10 was like a blend of '96 winds (though not as intense) and PD1 (Feb 79) snow rates. PD 1 is still the rates king though. That's when I saw 10" in a 3 hour continuous period which I haven't seen beaten since with a total of about 20" in the end.